| Admin/Biog History | Jasper Ridley (1913-1943) met Nicolson at Oxford in 1934. They became friends and socialised in the same circles throughout the 1930s.
In 1939 Ridley married Cressida Bonham-Carter. Ridley enlisted at the outbreak of the Second World War and was killed in 1943 following an escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. |