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Roy Ridley

Maurice Roy Ridley (January 25, 1890 - June 12, 1969) was a writer and poet, Fellow and Chaplain of Balliol College, Oxford.

Dorothy Sayers based the physical description of her fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey on that of Ridley after having seen him read his poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July of 1913. (The poem went on to win the Newdigate Prize[?].)

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