Ryder, Nathaniel – Has a Grantham pub named after him

Nathaniel Ryder (1735-1803)

NATHANIEL Ryder was the first 1st Baron Harrowby and was both a peer and Member of Parliament.

He was the son of Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. He was elected to the House of Commons for Tiverton in 1756, a seat he held until 1776.

In 1776  he was raised to the peerage as Baron Harrowby, of Harrowby in the County of Lincoln inheriting the title his father never had. Unfortunately, between the King signing the warrant for his peerage and actually receiving it, he died thus the title went straight to Nathaniel.

Nathaniel later served as  Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire and Lincolnshire.

He married Elizabeth Terrick, daughter of the Rt Rev Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, in 1762. Their second son the Hon. Richard Ryder became a successful politician and served as Home Secretary from 1809 to 1812 while their youngest son the Hon. Henry Ryder became Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Lichfield.

Lord Harrowby died in June 1803, aged 67, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Dudley, who served as Foreign Secretary and was created Earl of Harrowby in 1809. He is commemorated in St Wulfram’s Church in Grantham. Lady Harrowby died in 1804.

The family home was Harrowby Hall.