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HARRIS — HARROWBY. 175 India, 1885-80; Under Sec. for War, 1886-89; Gov. of Bombay, 1890. G.C.I.B., J890.( a ) He m., 8 July 1874, at Godmersham, eo. Kent, Lucy Ada, 2d da. of Carnegie Robert John (Jkrvib), 3d Viscount St. Vincent of Meaford, by Lucy Charlotte, da. of John Baskervylk-Glego. She was 6. 29 Oct. 1851. Family Estates— These, in 1883, consisted of 1,609 acres in Kent, worth £7,201 a year. Principal Residence. Belmont, near Faversham, Kent. HARROWBY. Barony. i, Nathaniel Ryder, only s. and h. of Sir Dudley E 1770. Ryder,C>) Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, 1751-56, by Anne, da. of Nathaniel Nkwnha.u, of StreatLam, co. Surrey, was b. 3 and bap. 15 July 1735, at St. Andrew's, Holborn ; M.P. for Tiverton, 1756 to 1776, when, 20 May 1776, he was cr. BARON HARROWBY of Harrowby, co. Lincoln.^) He m., 22 Jan. 1762, at Lambeth, Surrey, Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Richard Terhick, Bishop of Loudon. He d. 20 and was bur. 25 June 1803, at Bath Abbey, aged 67. Will pr. 1803. His widow rf. 24 Aug. and was bur. 1 Sep. 1804, at Bath Abbey afsd. Will pr. 1804. II. 1S03. 1 and 2. Dudley (Ryder), Baron Harrowby, 1st s. Earldom au<1 "•> J - 22 Dec - ^82, at St. Geo. Han. sq. ; ed. at St. John's Coll., Cambridge ; M.A., 1782. He was M.P. for Tiverton. 1784— I. 1809. 18C3: Under Foreign Secretary, 1789; P.C., 1790; Comptroller of the Household, 1790-91; Paymaster Gen. of the Forces, J790; Treasurer of the Navy, 1799 — 1S01 ; sue. to the peerage, 20 June 1S03 ; Foreign Sec, 1S04-05 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1805-06; Ambassador to Berlin, 1S05 ; President of the Indian Board, July to Nov. 1S09, being cr., 19 July 1809, VISCOUNT SANDON, of Sandon/*? co. Stafford, and EARL OF HA It HOW BY, co. Lincoln ; Lord President of the Council, 1812-27. He was cr. D.C.L. (Oxford*, 16 Juni 1814; LL.D. (Cambridge), 30 April 1833 ; F.S.A., &c. He m , 30 July 1795, Susan, da. of Granville (Levesun-Gower), 1st MARQUESS of Stafford, by his second wife, Louisa, da. of .Scroop (Eoerton), 1st DUKK of BruxjkwaTER. She 26 May 1S36, aged 66. Admon. July 1838. He J. 26 Dec. 1847, aged 75, at Sandou House, co. Stafford. Will pr. .March 1848. Earldom. ) o and 3. Dudley (Ryder), Earl of Harrow- ]] BY, &c, 1st s. and h., b. 23 May 1798, at the Army Pay < m|7 office, Whitehall, and bap. 26 June at St. Martins in the Barony. j ' ' fields ; sti/lcd Viscount Sandon, 1S09-47 ; mat. at Oxford rTT (Ch. Ch.), 19 Oct. 1816 ; B.A., 1820 ; M.A., 1832; a: UL J D.C.L., 5 July 1S48. He was M.P. tor Tiverton, 1819- 31, and for Liverpool, 1S31-47 ; Sec. to the Indian Board, 1830-31 ; an Eccles. Commissioner, 1847 ; sue. to the peerage, 26 Dec. 1S47; P.C., (") Well known as one of the best cricketers. ( b ) He was A. 4 Nov. 1691, and ed. at a Dissenting Academy at Hackney, being s. of Richard Ryder " a respectable mercer in the Cloisters, West Smithfield, London, where his elder br. carried on the same business " and " grandson of the Rev. Dudley Ryder, a Nonconformist Minister, living at Bedworth in Warwickshire." "His success in prosecuting his forensic duties was secured by his abilities, his attention, and his punctuality." In 1733 he was made Solicitor Gen. and in 1737 Attorney Gen. which office he held more than 17 years, during which he conducted the trial of the noblemen and others concerned in the rising of 1745. See Foss's '■ Judges." A warrant to raise him to the peerage was signed 24 May 1 756, but he rf. the day afterwards and was Am 1 , at Grantham, co. Lincoln. ( u ) This peerage seems to be considered as having been gi anted iu fulfilment of the promise (20 years ! ! back) of a peerage to the Lord Ch. Justice. The grantee (accordingly) adopted the motto of " Servata fides ancri." ( d ) The estate of Sandon, near Stone, co. Stafford, was purchased of the Hamilton family in 1776 by the first Lord.