Dudley Ryder, 2d earl of Harrowby
1798–1882
Politician. BA, Oxford (Christ Church), 1820. MP for Tiverton, 1819–31; Liverpool, 1831–47. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1855; lord privy seal, 1855–8. President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and prominent defender of the Church of England. Became second earl of Harrowby in 1847. FRS 1853.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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