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18-964: Harrowby may refer to: Earl of Harrowby , in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby (1735–1803) Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby , PC, FSA (1762–1847) Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS (1798–1882) Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby PC, DL, JP (1831–1900) Henry Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby (1836–1900) John Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby (1864–1956) Dudley Ryder, 6th Earl of Harrowby (1892–1987) Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby (1922–2007) Dudley Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby (born 1951) Harrowby Hall in Lincolnshire, England,

36-590: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Earl of Harrowby Earl of Harrowby , in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1809 for the prominent politician and former Foreign Secretary , Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby . He was made Viscount Sandon , of Sandon in the County of Stafford , at

54-513: The County of Lincoln , was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1776 for Nathaniel Ryder , who had previously represented Tiverton in Parliament. He was the son of Sir Dudley Ryder , Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1754 to 1756. Dudley Ryder was offered a peerage by King George II on 24 May 1756, but died the following day, before the patent was completed. Lord Harrowby

72-525: The House of Commons as a Conservative and was also Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire . His son, the sixth Earl, sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury . As of 2017 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the eighth Earl, who succeeded his father in 2007. The family seats are Sandon Hall , near Sandon , Staffordshire and Burnt Norton House , near Chipping Camden , Gloucestershire . The title of Baron Harrowby , of Harrowby in

90-547: The Norman Conquest , Sandon was the property of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia , but at the Conquest it fell into the king's hands, who bestowed it upon Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester . From him it passed to William de Malbanc, of Nantwich , one of his barons. Adena, the great-grand-daughter of William, gave it to Warren de Vernon, whose daughter Alditha conveyed it to Sir William Stafford, knight. Margaret, daughter of one of

108-427: The descendants of Sir William Stafford, carried the manor of Sandon by marriage to Thomas Erdeswicke in the 12th year of the reign of Edward III (1339). Thomas and Margaret had a son Thomas, whose four sons were Hugh, Robert, Sampson, and Henry. Hugh, Robert and Sampson all died without issue, but Henry had a son Hugh, who had issue another Hugh, and his sons were two brothers, Hugh and Sampson. Of these, Hugh Erdeswicke

126-581: The elder brother died without issue: Sampson had issue Hugh, who was the father of Sampson Erdeswicke (the Staffordshire antiquary), who died in 1603. The tombs of the Erdeswickes are in Sandon parish church. In 1593 the antiquary Sampson Erdiswicke married Mary Neale, widow of Everard Digby, Esquire (died 1592) of Tilton-on-the-Hill , Leicestershire, mother of that recusant Everard Digby who

144-462: The estate was the pretext for a fatal duel between the 4th Duke and Lord Mohun in 1712, which led to the deaths of both men. The manor thereby descended to Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke (1740-1819), grandson of the 4th Duke, for whom in 1769 the old moated manor-house was replaced by a new house built by Joseph Pickford of Derby. The estate was purchased in 1776 by Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby (1735-1803). The Hamiltons having torn down

162-650: The first Baron, was Bishop of Gloucester from 1815 to 1824 and Bishop of Lichfield from 1824 to 1836. His second son George Dudley Ryder was the father of 1) the Very Reverend Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (1837–1907), and 2) Sir George Lisle Ryder , KCB (1838–1905). Henry Ryder's fifth son Sir Alfred Phillips Ryder was an Admiral of the Fleet . Charles Henry Dudley Ryder (1868–1945), third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer Charles Dudley Ryder (1825–1873), sixth son of Henry Ryder,

180-462: The interesting old home of the Erdiswickes, only to enjoy its replacement for less than a decade, the new owners found further causes for dissatisfaction, and retained the architect Samuel Wyatt to carry out large extensions and improvements. A flower-garden was created in 1781-1782 by the landscape gardener William Emes . But the innovations of Enlightenment could not escape the retribution of

198-488: The offended spirit of Antiquity: the house was severely damaged by fire in 1848, and was then rebuilt in 1852 by Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby to a neo-Jacobean design by architect William Burn . In the park stands a Doric column erected in memory of William Pitt the Younger in 1806. The current owners are Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby and Caroline Ryder, 8th Countess of Harrowby . They have renovated

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216-588: The same time, which title is used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. His son, the second Earl, held office under Lord Palmerston as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lord Privy Seal . He was succeeded by his eldest son, the third Earl. He was a Conservative politician and notably served as President of the Board of Trade from 1878 to 1880. His nephew, the fifth Earl (who succeeded his father in 1900), briefly represented Gravesend in

234-452: The surviving daughter and heiress of George Digby, Esq. of Sandon Hall, in 1660 married Charles Gerard, 4th Baron Gerard of Bromley (died 1667), and from them the manor house passed to their son Digby Gerard, 5th Baron Gerard (died 1684) (who married his kinswoman Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield ), and so to their daughter Elizabeth Gerard, duchess of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton . A lawsuit concerning

252-473: Was Member of Parliament for Salisbury . The family seat is Sandon Hall , near Stafford , Staffordshire . The family also resides at Burnt Norton house , a house made famous by the T. S. Eliot poem Burnt Norton as is found in the Four Quartets . The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Dudley Anthony Hugo Coventry Ryder, Viscount Sandon (b. 1981). Sandon Hall Before

270-482: Was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers . His third son Robert Ryder was a sailor and Conservative politician. The Hon. Granville Ryder , second son of the first Earl, sat as Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Hertfordshire . His eldest son Dudley Henry Ryder is the great-grandfather of the psychologist and animal welfare campaigner Richard D. Ryder . Granville Ryder's second son and namesake Granville Ryder

288-692: Was executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot . Sampson and Mary Erdeswicke had three children: their heir was Richard Erdeswicke, M.P., who, to settle debts in the autumn of 1624, sold Sandon manor to his half-brother George Digby, Esq., of Sandon, although the purchase was not completed until 1631. Richard Erdeswicke died in Fleet debtors prison and was buried in St. Brides, Fleet Street in July 1640. His son, named Sampson, died intestate in 1654. Jane,

306-589: Was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned second Baron, who was created Earl of Harrowby in 1809. The Ryders derive their name and their coat-of-arms from the Ryther family of Ryther, Yorkshire. Several other members of the Ryder family may also be mentioned. The Hon. Richard Ryder , second son of the first Baron Harrowby, was Home Secretary between 1809 and 1812. The Right Reverend the Hon. Henry Ryder , youngest son of

324-559: Was the family home of the Ryder family, the former home of Nathaniel Ryder Harrowby, Lincolnshire , England, a hamlet Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Harrowby . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harrowby&oldid=499653117 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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