Granville Ryder (1799–1879)

The Honourable Granville Dudley Ryder JP (26 November 1799 – 24 November 1879), was a British Tory politician.

Ryder was the second son of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, and his wife, the former Lady Susanna Leveson-Gower, daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He later sat as Member of Parliament for Tiverton from 1830 to 1832 and for Hertfordshire from 1841 to 1847. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire.[1]

Ryder married Lady Georgiana Augusta, daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, in 1825.[1] They had seven daughters and six sons.[2] Their eldest son, Dudley Henry Ryder, was an ancestor of the 20th-century soldier and politician Robert Ryder. Their second son, Granville Ryder, was a politician. A younger son, Henry Stuart Ryder, was a junior officer in the Rifle Brigade and was killed at the Battle of the Great Redan in 1855.[3]

Lady Georgiana Ryder died in March 1865. Ryder survived her by fourteen years and died in November 1879, two days before his eightieth birthday.

See also
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Ryder, Granville Dudley" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References
  1. The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And Ireland For ... Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker And Company. 1863. p. 709.
  2. Edmund Lodge (1845). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility by Edmund Lodge Esq. Saunders and Otley Conduit Street. p. 270.
  3. Henry Press Wright (1873). The Story of the 'Domus Dei' of Portsmouth, Commonly Called The Royal Garrison Church. J. Parker. pp. 79.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hon. Richard Ryder
Viscount Sandon		 Member of Parliament for Tiverton
1830–1832
With: Viscount Sandon 1830–1831
Spencer Perceval 1831–1832		 Succeeded by
John Heathcoat
James Kennedy
Preceded by
Viscount Grimston
Abel Smith
Rowland Alston		 Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire
1841–1847
With: Viscount Grimston 1841–1846
Abel Smith 1841–1847
Thomas Plumer Halsey 1846–1847		 Succeeded by
Thomas Plumer Halsey
Sir Henry Meux, Bt
Hon. Thomas Brand
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