A. R. Vidler

Alexander Roper "Alec" Vidler OGS (1899 – July, 1991) was a noted English Anglican priest, theologian and church historian.

Vidler was born in Rye, Sussex, the son of Leopold Amon Vidler who had recently married Edith Hamilton Roper and attended Sutton Valence School. During World War I he worked in a family business, and served briefly in the British Army. He was then an undergraduate at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and attended Wells Theological College and the Oratory House, Cambridge.

Initially, after his ordination, he was a curate in a poor parish in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was then a curate and acting parish priest in Birmingham; he was one of the Anglo-Catholic clergy setting up a confrontation with the bishop, Ernest William Barnes, centred on the parish of Small Heath.

In 1938 Vidler became editor of Theology and librarian at Hawarden. There he was promoted to Warden of St Deiniol's Library, and encouraged Gordon Dunstan who was in a junior position, before becoming Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. During World War II he was one of the regular participants in J. H. Oldham's discussion group, "The Moot". In 1946 he published with Walter Alexander Whitehouse Natural Law: A Christian re-consideration based on ecumenical meetings at St Deiniol's Library including Hans Ehrenberg, Hubert Cunliffe-Jones, Richard Kelwe, Gerhard Leibholz,Philip Mairet, Richard O'Sullivan K.C., and Victor White.