Named after a 16th-century English Reformation martyr, Nicholas Ridley, Ridley College was established on 1 March 1910 to provide residential theological training. Its founders were evangelical Anglican clergy and laypeople from throughout Victoria."History". ridley.edu.au. Retrieved 7 March 2009. Ridley College's principals have included the prominent New Testament scholar Leon Morris (1914–2006; principal 1964–1979), known for his studies of the atonement.Stuard Piggin, Evangelical Christianity in Australia: Spirit word and world, (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996): 205.
