William Ryder (Archdeacon of Cloyne)

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William Ryder (b

Queenstown, County Cork 26 May 1862) was Archdeacon of Cloyne from 1834[1] until his death.[2]

Ryder was educated at

Queenstiown
. At the Village of Rathcormac in the County of Cork, on 18 December 1834 Archdeacon William Ryder, who was having problems collecting Tithes and as trouble was expected The Archdeacon was accompanied by a force of 100 soldiers. When faced with the expected civil demonstration by some 250 locals. The Archdeacon ordered the troops to open fire, this they did killing some twenty locals and wounding many.

References

  1. ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Essex Standard, and Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harwich, and General County Advertiser (Colchester, England), Friday, 24 October 1834; pg. [1]; Issue 199. 
  2. Longmans
    ; 1864
  3. Thomas Ulick Sadleir
    p725: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
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