Henry Ryder

The Right Reverend and Honourable

Henry Ryder
The Right Reverend and Honourable; Henry Ryder
Bishop of Lichfield
Diocese	Lichfield
In office	1824–1836
Predecessor	James Cornwallis
Successor	Samuel Butler
Other post(s)	Bishop of Gloucester (1815–1824)
Personal details
Born	21 July 1777; Streatham, Surrey
Died	31 March 1836 (aged 58); Hastings, Sussex
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Sophia Phillips (m. 1802)
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Henry Dudley Ryder (21 July 1777 – 31 March 1836^[1]) was a prominent English evangelical Anglican bishop in the early years of the nineteenth century, most notably as Bishop of Lichfield. He was the first evangelical to be raised to the Anglican episcopate.^[2]

Life

Ryder was the fifth son of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby, by his wife Elizabeth Terrick, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London. Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby and the Honourable Richard Ryder were his elder brothers. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge,^[3] 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 Ryder.^[4]^[5]

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 sailor and politician Robert Ryder. Ryder died in March 1836, aged 58. His wife died in August 1862.

Gallery

Bronze Medal 1836, issued in honour of Bishop Henry Dudley Ryder by Thomas Wells Ingram, Birmingham
Monument to Bishop Ryder by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey in Lichfield Cathedral

References

^ Ryder, Henry in: Oxford University Press, retrieved 7 January 2014.
^ Chapman, Mark (2006). Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford University Press. p. 66. ISBN 9780192806932.
^ "Ryder, the Hon Dudley (RDR779D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography

Sources

Attribution

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

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Lukin	Dean of Wells 1812–1831	Succeeded by Edmund Goodenough
Preceded by George Huntingford	Bishop of Gloucester 1815–1824	Succeeded by Christopher Bethell
Preceded by James Cornwallis	Bishop of Lichfield 1824–1836	Succeeded by Samuel Butler