Dudley Adrian Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby, DL (known as Conroy born 18 March 1951) is a British peer. He was known by the

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of Viscount Sandon from 1987 until 2007.

Biography

Conroy Ryder was born on 18 March 1951. He is the only son of

Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby Dudley Danvers Granville Coutts Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, TD (20 December 1922 – 9 October 2007), known as Viscount Sandon from 1956 to 1987, was a British hereditary peer who was deputy chairman of Coutts bank and its parent company, NatW ...

, by his marriage to Jeanette Rosalthe Johnston-Saint. His sister is Lady Rosalthé Frances Rundall.''Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage'', 106th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Burke’s Peerage, Crans, Switzerland, 1999, , p. 1326. Harrowby was educated at

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, the

University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick univer ...

, and

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. He became a director of Compton Street Securities in 1988. Harrowby succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father on 9 October 2007, when he retired from his job and relocated to manage the family seat,

Sandon Hall Sandon Hall is a 19th-century country mansion, the seat of the Earl of Harrowby, at Sandon, Staffordshire, northeast of Stafford. It is a Grade II* listed building set in of parkland. Early manorial history Before the Norman Conquest, Sandon w ...

in Staffordshire, England. The family also owns

Burnt Norton House Burnt Norton is a manor house in Aston-sub-Edge, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, best known for being the inspiration for T. S. Eliot's poem of the same name. History Sir William Keyt, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Warwick betw ...

, made famous by T. S. Eliot's ''

Four Quartets ''Four Quartets'' is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ''Burnt Norton'', was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ''Collected Poems 1909–1935''). After a f ...

''. Harrowby was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

on 9 May 2017.

Marriages & Children

Harrowby was married firstly to Sarah Nichola Hobhouse Payne, daughter of Captain Anthony Denys Phillpotts Payne, on 16 July 1977. They had four children: * Dudley Anthony Hugo Coventry Ryder, Viscount Sandon (born 5 September 1981),

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to the earldom *

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Frederick Whitmore Dudley Ryder (born 6 February 1984) * Hon Henry Mansell Dudley Ryder (born 13 July 1985) * Lady Emily Georgina Hobhouse Ryder (born 13 January 1992) Sarah died 29 December 1994. Harrowby was married secondly to Caroline Marks on 2 May 1998.The Peerage, entry for 8th Earl of Harrowby
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