learned societies and examination boards. Among Ridler's productions were Stanley Morison's book on the Fell types, facsimiles of Eliot's The Waste Land and the Constable Sketchbooks and The Great Tournament Roll for the British College of Arms. Ridler was widely known in printing beyond Oxford. During the war, he had been elected to the Double Crown Club (1943) and on demobilisation had lectured to the club on the typefaces of Eric Gill; in 1963 he served as its president. He was a founder of the Institute of Printing, an examiner in typographic design for the City and Guilds of London Institute, and served as President of the British Federation of Master Printers (later the British Printing Industries Federation), with its 4,000 members, from 1968 to 1969. In 1971 Ridler was made a CBE. He became a fellow of the Oxford college of St Edmund Hall. He retired from the Oxford University Press in 1978. After his retirement, Ridler ran his own printing shop, where he produced on his hand-press Christmas cards (often incorporating poems by Anne Ridler), broadsides, ephemera, and some small books under the revived imprint of the Perpetua Press; one was Mutiny on the Bembo, a set of comic verse lampooning publishing by his colleague OUP editor John Bell. An exhibition of some of his work was held at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford University in 1993. Ridler's wife, Anne, died in 2001. Ridler died on 11 January 2009, aged 95. Further reading Richard Russell, 'Obituary - Vivian Ridler', in Parenthesis; 18 (2010 Spring), p. 36-37 Mick Belson, On the Press (2003. Robert Boyd Publications), pp. 90–92. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Anne Ridler. Vivian Ridler's obituary David Bland, 'The Perpetua Press', in The private library (Summer 1970), pp. 78–90. Blue plaque on his home at 14 Stanley Road, Oxford References People educated at Bristol Grammar School 1913 births 2009 deaths Academics of the Royal College of Art Oxford University Press people People from Cardiff Royal Air Force personnel of World War II British publishers (people) British printers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire