Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (3 January 1837 – 7 October 1907,

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) was an English

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priest of the

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and controversialist.

Life

Ryder's lifelong connection with

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and the Oratory began as a private pupil, when he was about twelve years old. The only interruption was a year at the

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and a few months at the

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in Dublin, of which Newman was rector, before he began in December, 1856, his Oratorian novitiate. In 1863 he was ordained priest. After Cardinal Newman's death he was elected superior of the Birmingham Oratory and held this office till his health gave way. He was the last survivor of "my dearest brothers of this House, the Priests of the Birmingham Oratory" to whom Newman dedicated his ''

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''. His grave is with theirs and Cardinal Newman's at

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, a small country house belonging to the Birmingham Oratory, about seven miles from Birmingham. His life was uneventful. He cared little for notoriety or even fame. Once only did he push himself forward. This was in 1867-8, when he attacked

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, at that time editor of '' Dublin Review''. His opinions on

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, according to Ryder, were a caricature, and he delivered his protest in three pamphlets. He was criticised for them.

Works

Apart from a number of articles in American and English magazines, he published: *"Idealism in Theology, a Review of Dr. Ward's scheme of Dogmatic Authority" (London, 1867); *"A letter to W. G. Ward on his theory of Infallible Instruction" (London, 1868); *"Postscriptum to Letter, etc." (London, 1868); *"A critique upon Mr. Foulkes' Letter" (London, 1869); *"Catholic Controversy", a reply to Littledale's "Plain Reasons" (London, 1880); *"Poems Original and Translated" (Dublin, 1882). There is besides "Essays of the Rev. H. I. D. Ryder, edited by Francis Bacchus" (London, 1911).

Family

He was the eldest son of

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, one of the numerous clergymen of the

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who followed in the steps of Newman, and Sophia Lucy, daughter of John Sargent. He was received into the Catholic Church at Rome in 1846. The grandfather,

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, was a prominent Anglican Evangelical bishop. The three other Misses Sargent married

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, and

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References

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, ''Father Ignatius Ryder'' in the '' Dublin Review'' (January, 1898), republished in Ward, ''Ten Personal Studies'' (London, 1908); **Chapman, ''Dr. Ryder's Essays'', in the ''Dublin Review'' (April, 1911). {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryder, Henry Ignatius Dudley 1837 births 1907 deaths 19th-century English Roman Catholic priests

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