Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby

The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrowby PC, DL, JP
President of the Board of Trade
In office 4 April 1878 – 21 April 1880
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Beaconsfield
Preceded by	Sir Charles Adderley
Succeeded by	Joseph Chamberlain
Personal details
Born	16 January 1831 (1831-01-16)
Died	26 March 1900 (1900-03-27)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lady Mary Cecil (d. 1917)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby PC, DL, JP (16 January 1831 – 26 March 1900), known as Viscount Sandon from 1847 to 1882, was a British peer and politician.

Political career

Harrowby was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield from 1856 to 1859 and for Liverpool from 1868 until he succeeded to the peerage in 1882. He was Vice-President of the Committee on Education from 1874 to 1878 and President of the Board of Trade (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1878 to 1880 in Benjamin Disraeli's second administration and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1874. Between 1885 and 1886 he served as Lord Privy Seal in Lord Salisbury's first government. Apart from his career in national politics he was also Chairman of the Staffordshire county council and a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for that county.

Family

Lord Harrowby married Lady Mary, daughter of Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, in 1861. The marriage was childless. Harrowby died in March 1900, aged 69, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry. Lady Harrowby died in July 1917.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.thepeerage.com

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Sandon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord Waterpark Lord Alfred Paget	Member of Parliament for Lichfield 1856–1859 With: Lord Alfred Paget	Succeeded by Lord Alfred Paget Hon. Augustus Anson
Preceded by Thomas Berry Horsfall Samuel Robert Graves	Member of Parliament for Liverpool 1868–1882 With: Samuel Robert Graves 1868–1873 William Rathbone 1868–1880 John Torr 1873–1880 Edward Whitley1880–1882 John Ramsay 1880 Lord Claud Hamilton 1880	Succeeded by Edward Whitley Lord Claud Hamilton Samuel Smith
Political offices
Preceded by William Edward Forster	Vice-President of the Committee on Education 1874–1878	Succeeded by Lord George Hamilton
Preceded by Sir Charles Adderley	President of the Board of Trade 1878-1880	Succeeded by Joseph Chamberlain
Preceded by The Earl of Rosebery	Lord Privy Seal 1885–1886	Succeeded by William Ewart Gladstone
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Dudley Ryder	Earl of Harrowby 1882–1900	Succeeded by Henry Ryder

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Name	Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of
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Date of birth	16 January 1831
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Date of death	26 March 1900
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