Henry Ryder

The Right Reverend the Hon. Henry Dudley Ryder (21 July 1777 – 31 March 1836) was a prominent English Evangelical Anglican clergyman in the early years of the nineteenth century. He was the first Evangelical to be raised to the Anglican episcopate.

Life

Ryder was the fifth son of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London. Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby and the Hon. Richard Ryder were his elder brothers. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge,^[1] and became vicar of Lutterworth and of Claybrook. He was canon of Windsor in 1808.

He was successively Bishop of Gloucester, from 1815, and Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, from 1824. His kneeling statue by Francis Legatt Chantrey is in Lichfield Cathedral.

John Henry Newman, in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, speaks of the veneration in which he held Bishop Ryder.^[2][3]

Family

Ryder married Sophia, daughter of Thomas March Phillips, in 1802. Their second son George Dudley Ryder was the father of the Very Reverend Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder. Their fifth son was Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Phillips Ryder. Their sixth and youngest son Spencer Ryder was the ancestor of the soldier and politician Robert Ryder. Ryder died in March 1836, aged 58. His wife died in August 1862.

Notes

1. ^ Ryder, the Hon Dudley in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
2. ^  "Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 
3. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography

References

• www.thepeerage.com

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.