Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby

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Dudley Adrian Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby, DL (known as Conroy [1] born 18 March 1951) is a British peer. He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Sandon from 1987 until 2007.

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Biography

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Conroy Ryder was born on 18 March 1951. He is the only son of Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, by his marriage to Jeanette Rosalthe Johnston-Saint. His sister is Lady Rosalthé Frances Rundall. [2]

Harrowby was educated at Eton, Newcastle University, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He became a director of Compton Street Securities in 1988. [2]

Harrowby succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father on 9 October 2007, when he retired from his job and relocated to manage the family seat, Sandon Hall in Staffordshire, England. [3] The family also owns Burnt Norton House, made famous by T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets .

Harrowby was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire on 9 May 2017. [4]

He is a Vice President of the National Churches Trust. [5]

Marriages & Children

Harrowby was married firstly to Sarah Nichola Hobhouse Payne, daughter of Captain Anthony Denys Phillpotts Payne, on 16 July 1977. They had four children:

Sarah died 29 December 1994. Harrowby was married secondly to author and the current Countess of Harrowby, nee Caroline Coram James, sister to Lord Marks of Henley on Thames, on 2 May 1998.

Notes

  1. ↑ Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 1805
  2. 1 2 Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Burke’s Peerage, Crans, Switzerland, 1999, ISBN   2-940085-02-1, p. 1326.
  3. ↑ Bellini, Luciana. "All about Sandon Hall". Tatler.
  4. ↑ "No. 61926". The London Gazette . 12 May 2017. p. 9746.
  5. ↑ "Our Presidents and Patrons".
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