RYAN, John Joseph, D.L., J.P., Co. Limerick (High Sheriff, 1908). Educ. at St. Mary's College, Oscott; served as a Volunteer in the S. African War, 1890-1901; served in European War as Lieut. 16th Lancers, 1914-18; is Master of the Scarteen Beagles; eldest son of Major-Gen. Thaddeus Richard Ryan, R.A., D.L., of Scarteen, Co. Limerick, and Gwendoline, dau. of Sir James Power, 2nd Bart.; b. 1871; m. 1919, Anita, dau. of late M. J. Purcell, of Burton Park, Buttevant, Co. Cork. Res.: Scarteen, Knocklong, Co. Limerick.