A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ryder, Granville Dudley
RYDER, M.P. (Lieutenant, 1819. f-p., 9; h-p., 25.)
The Honourable Granville Dudley Ryder, born in Nov. 1799, is second son of the first Earl of Harrowby, by Susan, daughter of Granville, first Marquess of Stafford; brother-in-law of Earl Fortescue, and of Capt. Edw. Saurin, R.N.; and first-cousin of Capt. Arthur Phillipps Ryder, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 April, 1813, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell; with whom, from the spring of 1815 until Nov. 1817, he served in the Channel and at Cork as Midshipman in the Tonnant 80. After he had been again, for about 18 months, employed in the Mediterranean in the Ganymede 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, he joined with that officer, in Aug. 1819, the Owen Glendower 42. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 Sept. following; he was removed, on his arrival in South America, to the Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; and from Jan. 1820 until 1822 he again served in the Owen Glendower. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Ryder was returned to Parliament tor Hertfordshire in 1841. He married, 30 May, 1825, Georgiana Augusta, third daughter of Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort; by whom he has a large family.