Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby

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Dudley Danvers Granville Coutts Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby,

parent company, NatWest
.

Early life and education

Harrowby was a descendant of

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench
in the 1750s.

He was born in 1922, the elder son of

Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Sir Samuel Hoare. He was educated at Eton
.

Military service

Harrowby joined the young soldiers' battalion of the

Second World War in the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division. He moved to the 133 Field Regiment Royal Artillery in February 1945, part of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, but was severely injured near the Reichswald forest
only a few days later.

After recovering from his injuries, Harrowby was posted to the Far East in preparation for the invasion of

lieutenant-colonel before retiring in 1964, having commanded the 254 (City of London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery.[citation needed
]

Career

Although he did not follow many of his ancestors in standing for Parliament, Harrowby was a councillor in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from 1950 to 1971. He was president of the Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association, resigning in protest after the sitting MP, Enoch Powell, made his "rivers of blood" speech in 1968.

He turned down a place at

Sir Frederick Gibberd. When Coutts' parent company, National Provincial Bank, merged with Westminster Bank
in 1968, he joined the board of the combined NatWest Bank. He was deputy chairman of NatWest from 1971 to 1987.

He was also a director of the

Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires
.

He took the courtesy title of Viscount Sandon following the death of his grandfather in 1956 and succeeded his father as

neo-Jacobean Sandon Hall near Stafford, designed by William Burn in 1850. Together with all but 90 hereditary peers, he lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 implemented reforms proposed by the Labour Government.[1]

Marriages and children

Harrowby married Jeannette Rosalthé Johnston-Saint, younger daughter of Captain Peter Johnston-Saint, on 14 June 1949. They had a son and a daughter:[2]

His first wife died in 1997. He was married secondly in 2003 to Janet Boote (née Stott), youngest daughter of Alan Edward Stott.

Death

Lord Harrowby died suddenly at Sandon Hall on 9 October 2007 of a suspected heart attack at the age of 84.[3] He was survived by his second wife and the two children from his first marriage. His son, Conroy, succeeded him in the earldom and other titles.

References

  1. ^ Annex B of http://www.dca.gov.uk/elections/rpacirculars/pdf/rpacir431.pdf
  2. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  3. ^ "expressandstar.com, 12 Oct 2007". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2018.

External links

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Harrowby
1987–2007 		Succeeded by
Dudley Adrian Conroy Ryder
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