Lancelot Ridley (died 1576) was an English clergyman, known as a theological writer, and rector of St James' Church, Stretham, Cambridgeshire.
[4] Ridley took part in the disputation Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon, with the other Canterbury preachers and prebendaries.
[5] Under Edward VI he was a defender of Protestantism, and Nicholas Ridley seems to have meditated his promotion to the chancellorship of St. Paul's Cathedral on the translation of Edmund Grindal to a bishopric in November 1551.
John Bale heard a report that Ridley subsequently put away his wife and returned to celibacy and Roman Catholicism.
He was also in the same year appointed rector of St James' Church, Stretham in Cambridgeshire, where he was buried on 16 June 1576.