Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Ridley, William

​RIDLEY, The Right Rev. William, D.D., was a missionary in connection with the Church Missionary Society in Peshawur and Afghanistan from 1866 to 1869, when he was appointed chaplain of the English Church in the Kreuz Strass, Dresden. The latter apointment he resigned in 1872, on being presented to the vicarage of Shelley, near Huddersfield. He was vicar of Mold Green, 1873-74; and vicar of St. Paul's, Huddersfield, from 1874 to 1879, when he was nominated to the new bishopric of Caledonia, in British Columbia.

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