Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby

Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby PC JP DL (16 January 1831 – 26 March 1900), known as Viscount Sandon from 1847 to 1882, was a British peer and politician.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrowby PC JP DL
President of the Board of Trade
In office 4 April 1878 – 21 April 1880
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Beaconsfield
Preceded by	Sir Charles Adderley
Succeeded by	Joseph Chamberlain
Personal details
Born	16 January 1831 Brighton, England
Died	26 March 1900 (aged 69) Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lady Mary Cecil ​ (m. 1861)​
Parents	Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby Lady Frances Stuart
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Life

He was the second son and eventual heir of Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby, and Lady Frances Stuart, fourth daughter of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute. He was born at Brighton on 16 January 1831. He was educated at Harrow and the university of Oxford, where he matriculated from Christ Church on 31 May 1849, graduated B.A. in 1853, and proceeded M.A. in 1878.[1]

On leaving the university, Viscount Sandon, as he was styled during his father's lifetime, made a tour in the East with Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, visiting Syria and the Lebanon (see Carnavon's Recollections of the Druses of the Lebanon, London, 1860, 8vo). On his return to England, he did garrison duty as captain in the 2nd Staffordshire militia regiment, during the Crimean war and Indian mutiny.[1]

Political career

The Earl of Harrowby caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in 1885.

Harrowby was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield from 1856 to 1859 and for Liverpool from 1868 until he succeeded to the peerage in 1882. He gained experience of affairs as private secretary to Henry Labouchere at the colonial office.[1]

He was a member of the select committees on the Hudson's Bay Company (1857) and the Euphrates Valley (1871–72), and continued throughout life to devote much time and attention to the study of imperial and colonial questions.[1] He was Vice-President of the Committee on Education from 1874 to 1878, and President of the Board of Trade (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1878 to 1880 in Benjamin Disraeli's second administration and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1874. Between 1885 and 1886, he served as Lord Privy Seal in Lord Salisbury's first government.[1]

Apart from his career in national politics he was also Chairman of the Staffordshire county council and a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for that county.

He died at Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, on 26 March 1900.[1]

Family

Lord Harrowby married Lady Mary Cecil, daughter of Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, in 1861. The marriage was childless. Harrowby died in March 1900, aged 69, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry. Lady Harrowby died in July 1917.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby

16. Sir Dudley Ryder 8. Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby 17. Anne Newnham 4. Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby 18. Richard Terrick, Bishop of London 9. Elizabeth Terrick 19. Tabitha Stainforth 2. Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby 20. John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower 10. Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford 21. Lady Evelyn Pierrepont 5. Lady Susanna Leveson-Gower 21. Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway 11. Lady Susannah Stewart 23. Lady Catherine Cochrane 1. Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby 24. James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute 12. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute 25. Lady Anne Campbell 6. John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute 26. Sir Edward Wortley Montagu 13. Mary Wortley Montagu 27. Lady Mary Pierrepont 3. Lady Frances Stuart 28. Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor 14. Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor 29. Lady Charlotte Herbert 7. Hon. Charlotte Hickman-Windsor 30. Sir John Clavering, 3rd Baronet 15. Alice Clavering 31. Jane Mallabar

References

1. Rigg 1901.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1885–1900). "Ryder, Dudley Francis Stuart". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Harrowby
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages