Sir Charles Lister Ryan (30 September 1831 – 20 November 1920) was a British civil servant. He served as Comptroller and Auditor-General of the

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from 1888 until his retirement in 1896.

Life

He was born in St John's, Worcester,''1901 England Census'' the son of barrister Sir Edward Ryan and Louisa Whitmore. Ryan was a Clerk in the Treasury (1851–65), also serving as private secretary to

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(1858), Sir Stafford Northcote (1859), and

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when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859–65). He was appointed secretary to the Board of Audit in 1865. He served as Assistant-Comptroller and Auditor (1873-88), followed by Comptroller and Auditor of the Exchequer and Audit Department (1888–96). He was also a governor of

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. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1881 Birthday Honours and knighted in the same order in the

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Family

In 1862, Ryan married Jane Georgiana, daughter of Sir John Shaw Lefevre. Their daughter Madeleine Harriet Dagmar married Arthur Elliot in 1888.

References

1831 births 1920 deaths 19th-century British civil servants Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People from St John's, Worcester English justices of the peace Civil servants in the Exchequer and Audit Department {{UK-gov-bio-stub