Timeline: 1555

1555 Timeline

1555, (October 16) - Nicholas Ridley, the venerable bishop of London, suffered martyrdom, along with his friend Latimer, being burnt at a stake, before Baliol college, Oxford. He was born ar Willimoteswick, in Northumberland, and educated at the grammar school in Newcastle, from whence he removed to Pembroke hall, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship in 1524.

From: T Fordyce, J. Sykes. Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed..., published 1867

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Nicholas Ridley - burnt at the stake

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