Aethelred Eldridge (born James Edward Leonard Eldridge; April 21, 1930 – November 15, 2018) was an academic and avant-garde painter. He was associate professor at the Ohio University School of Art from 1957 until 2014 and is best known for his black-and-white art accompanied by esoteric writings inspired by William Blake, and the founding of a "Church of William Blake" not far from his home in Athens, Ohio. The church eventually burned down; Eldridge claimed arson.[1]