Former Oxford University Press printer Vivian Ridler, CBE, who rose to become the president of the British Federation of Master Printers, has died aged 95.

Mr Ridler, who worked at OUP for 30 years, held the 500-year-old post of printer to the university for two decades.

Originally from Cardiff, he met his future wife, poet Anne Bradby in London, and during the Second World War worked as an intelligence officer in the RAF. He moved to Oxford in 1948.

He became assistant printer in 1949 and printer — the head role at OUP — in 1958.

Mr Ridler died on January 11 at his home in Stanley Road.

He leaves four children, Jane Scott, Kate Wilson, Ben, and Colin, and six grandchildren.