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Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
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'''Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby''' (
22 December 1762-
26 December 1847) was a prominent
United Kingdom British politician of the
Pittite faction and the
Tory party.
Ryder was the eldest son of
Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby, and was born in
London. Nathaniel Ryder was a
Member of Parliament for
Tiverton and Honiton Tiverton for 20 years. Educated at
Harrow School and
St John's College, Cambridge St John's College,
University of Cambridge Cambridge, Dudley Ryder took his father's old Parliament seat in
1784.
Ryder's administrative career began with an appointment to be joint-Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs in
1789. In
1791 he was appointed co-
Paymaster of the Forces, having been made Vice-President of the
Board of Trade in
1790. He resigned the positions and also that of
Treasurer of the Navy when he succeeded to his father's
barony in June
1803. In
1804 he was
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and in
1805 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under his intimate friend
William Pitt the Younger William Pitt; in the latter year he was sent on a special and important mission to the emperors of
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Austria and
Alexander I of Russia Russia and the king of
Frederick William III of Prussia Prussia. From
1812 to
1827 he served as
Lord President of the Council under
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Lord Liverpool.
After
George Canning's death in 1827, Ryder refused to serve
George IV of the United Kingdom George IV as prime minister. Ryder never held office again, although he continued to take part in politics, being especially prominent during the deadlock which preceded the passing of the
Reform Act 1832 Reform Bill in
1832. Harrowby's long association with the
Tory Tories did not prevent him from assisting to remove the disabilities of Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters, or from supporting the movement for electoral reform; he was also in favour of the emancipation of the slaves.
Ryder died at his
Staffordshire residence,
Sandon Hall, being, as
Charles Greville says, "the last of his generation and of the colleagues of Mr Pitt, the sole survivor of those stirring times and mighty contests."
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