Mark Ridley (physician)

Portrait of Mark Ridley. Etching , published by William Richardson

Dr Mark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624) was an English physician and lexicographer, born in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, to Lancelot Ridley.[1][2] Following studies at Cambridge, Ridley was employed by the Muscovy Company as physician to the English merchants in Russia. Later he became personal physician to the Tsar of Russia.[3]

  1. ^ Shaw, William Arthur (1896). "Ridley, Lancelot" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ Stone (2004) ODNB Mark Ridley (subscription required)
  3. ^ Lesley B. Cormack, Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620 (1997), p. 123.