Henry Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby
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Henry Dudley Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby (3 May 1836 – 11 December 1900), was briefly a British
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 peer, succeeding his brother as Earl of Harrowby
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 the same time, which...

 on 26 March 1900, and dying nine months later.

Harrowby was the son of Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician...

, and his wife, Frances Stuart, fourth daughter of the first Marquess of Bute
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, PC, FRS was a British nobleman.He was the son of the 3rd Earl of Bute and the former Mary Wortley Montagu, a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich...

. He was educated at Harrow School
Harrow School
Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...

 and Christ Church, Oxford
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, and became a senior partner at Coutts & Co.

Lord Harrowby married Susan Juliana Maria Hamilton Dent, only daughter of John Villiers Dent and his wife Susan Orde, on 17 May 1859. They became the parents of eight children. He died in December 1900, at sea, on his yacht Miranda, off Algiers
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, and was buried at Sandon
Sandon, Staffordshire
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. He was succeeded in his titles by his son John Ryder
John Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby
John Herbert Dudley Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby , briefly known as Viscount Sandon from March to December 1900, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament....

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