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RYDER, EARL OF HARROWBY. 



DUDLEY RYDER, Earl of Harrowby, of Harrowby, in the County 

 of Lincoln, Viscount Sandon, of Sancton, in the County of Stafford, 

 Lord Harrowby. of Harrowby, in Lincolnshire ; High Steward of 

 Tiverton, President of the Council, L. L. D. F. S.A. ; born Dec. 22, 

 1762, succeeded his father, Nathaniel, the late Lord, June 20, 1803 ; 

 married in 1795, Lady Susan Leveson Gower, daughter of Gran- 

 ville, first Marquis of Stafford, and has issue, 1st, Susan, b. June 

 20, 1796, 2d, Dudley, Viscount Sandon, b. May 20, 1797; 3d, a 

 son, b. Oct. 27, 1809; 4th, a daughter, b. Jan. 28, 1811. 



The name of Rythre, Ryther, or Ryder, is local, being derived 

 from Ryther, in the hundred of Barkston, in the county of York, 

 in which county, as well as Kent, respectable families of that name 

 have at various times settled. 



Robert Ryder, whose son was the Rev. Dudley Ryder, of Bed- 

 worth, in the county of Warwick, m. Anne, fourth daughter 

 of Richard Bickley, of Halloughton, co. Warwick, by whom he 

 had issue four sons, and two daughters, Richard; Benedi; Francis; 



Dudley Ryder., who m. Catherine, daughter of , Shiers, 



and had several children, of whom John Ryder, D.D. was Archbishop 

 of Armagh, and left issue Richard, who left by his first wife two 

 daughters. He m. secondly, Elizabeth Marshall, by whom he had 

 three sons, Richard ; Sit 1 Dudley; William, who by Mary his wife, 



daughter of Burton, left an only child, Elizabeth, married 



to Dudley Baxter, Solicitor of Excise, who died without issue, at 

 Farnham, co. Surrey. 



Sir Dudley Ryder, Knt. second son, father of the late Lord Har- 

 rowby, was born in the year 1691. After receiving a good school 

 education, he went to the University of Edinburgh, and from thence 

 to that of Leyden. On his return to England he settled in the 

 Temple, where he studied the laws of his country with that assi- 

 duity and attention which laid the foundation of his future rise in 

 his profession. He was made Solicitor-General in 1733; was in 

 1736 advanced to the office of Attorney-General, and discharged 

 with integrity and ability the duties of that laborious situation 

 during a period of about eighteen years. In 1754, he was appointed 

 Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and in 1 756, his Ma- 

 jesty, in reward for his long and faithful services, determined to 



