RYDE, WALTER CRANLEY, brother of Edward Harrow Ryde (qv); b. 25 Oct 1856; adm. 22 Jan 1869; exhibitioner 1870; QS 1871; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1888; adm. Inner Temple 28 Oct 1878, called to bar 26 Jan 1882; adm. Middle Temple 27 Jul 1903; KC 1 Nov 1910; author, The Law and Practice of Rating, 1900, and other works; m. 11 Aug 1898 Eleanor, third dau. of William Henry Shaw, St. Leonards, Sussex, Solicitor to Great Eastern Railway Company; d. 27 Apr 1938.
RYDE, FRANK CECIL, brother of Edward Harrow Ryde (qv); b. 15 Oct 1862; adm. 21 Jan 1875 (R); left Dec 1880; an architect and surveyor; ARIBA 25 Jun 1888, FRIBA 1912; practised in Westminster; m. 2 Mar 1897 Ethel Christina, fourth dau. of William Henry Shaw, St. Leonards, Sussex, Solicitor to Great Eastern Railway Company; d. 1941.
RYDE, EDWARD HARROW, eldest son of Edward Ryde, Woking, Surrey, land surveyor, President, Surveyors’ Institution, and Sarah, dau. of Robert Harrow; b. 20 Nov 1852; adm. 27 Apr 1865 (James'); left Dec 1870; adm. solicitor May 1876; practised in London; m. 1st, 16 Sep 1879 Frances Sarah, sister of William Holt Yates Titcomb (qv); m. 2nd, 8 Oct 1924 Mary Emmeline, eldest dau. of Rev. John Fuller, Vicar of Stanground, Hunts.; d. 20 Dec 1930.
RYDE, CHARLES BERTRAM, brother of Edward Harrow Ryde (qv); b. 24 Dec 1858; adm. 26 Jan 1871 (James'); QS 1874; left May 1877; Agricultural Coll., Cirencester, scholar 1880, 1881; a surveyor; d. 28 Feb 1915.
RYDE, ARTHUR LYON, brother of Edward Harrow Ryde (qv); b. 8 Nov 1854; adm. 27 Sep 1866; QS 1869; left Jan 1873; a surveyor; ASI Dec 1876, FSI Nov 1880, President 1917; practised in Parliament Street, Westminster; assisted his father with the third edition of Metropolitan Rating, 1881; m. 16 Sep 1879 Florence Eleanor, sister of William Holt Yates Titcomb (qv).
Ryan, Lionel Ernest Norwood, eldest son of George Norwood Ryan, of Teddington, Middx, by Isabella, daughter of James Anderson, of Aberdeen; b. July 16, 1888; adm. as (non resident) K.S. Sept. 25, 1902; went into College 1903; left (with Triplett) July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1907; sometime in the shipping office of M. Samuel and Co., London, and of Samuel Samuel and Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan; agent, Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Shanghai, China, April 1916 - May 1919; chief asst. Hong-Kong, July 1920-5; agent 1926; d. in the Japanese Internment Camp at Hong Kong Feb. 27, 1945; he bequeathed a share of his residue, amounting to about £6,000, to the Westminster School Society.
Lionel Ernest Norwood Ryan was born at Kingston, Surrey on the 16th of July 1888 the eldest son of George Norwood Ryan, a ship broker, and Isabella “Bella” (nee Anderson) Ryan of 21, Gwendolyn Avenue Putney in Surrey, later of “St John’s”, Somers Road, Reigate in Surrey. He was christened at Surbiton on the 23rd of October 1888.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was a non resident King’s Scholar from the 25th of September 1902 and was up College from 1903 to July 1907. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps where he was promoted to Sergeant on the 9th of August 1906. He was a member of the Shooting VIII in 1906 and 1907 and competed for the school in the Ashburton Shield Competition in the latter year. He was a member of the Debating Society in 1907. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1907 and was awarded a Triplett Exhibition.
On leaving university he went to work as a shipping agent’s clerk for the office of M. Samuel & Company of London and of Samuel and Samuel & Company Ltd of Yokohama. He moved to China where he worked for the Canadian Pacific Company at Shanghai from April 1916 to May 1919 before transferring to their Hong Kong office as a Superintendant Assistant from July 1920. He was a member of the Hong Kong Club and of the Civil Defence Service.
He was captured and interned in a camp by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong on the 25th of December 1941. He was a Canadian national and the Canadians in the camp were released and repatriated to Canada in August 1943. Lionel Ryan and a Mr. Drummond were not among those who were released. A diary, kept by Franklin Gimson noted in August 1943 that: -“In the evening, Drummond and Ryan, two Canadians whose names had been excluded from the list (repatriation) came to see me and took the matter very calmly. All they asked was that they might be included on the list if vacancies occurred."
He died at The British Civilian Internment Camp at Stanley in Hong Kong from pneumonia brought on by a brain tumour.
He left the sum of £6,000 to the Westminster Society in his will.
His brothers, 2nd Lieutenant Warwick John Norwood Ryan, Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry died on the 5th of September 1916 and Captain Edward St John Norwood Ryan MC, 12th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on the 22nd of October 1918.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford.
He is buried at Stanley Military Cemetery.
Ryan, Arthur John, son of John Ryan CBE MC, vice-chmn. Metal Box Co., and Mabel, d. of George McEwen of Golders Green; b. 16 Oct. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (A); left July 1940; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1940, BA 1947; RE in WW2 (Capt. ); safes man. BTR Reinforced Plastics Ltd.; sales dir. Braithwaite Engineers Ltd. 1987-90; m. 22 Aug. 1953 Margaret Graham, d. of Douglas Hobling Snell of Blackheath.
Ryan, Alan Hemmington, son of L. Ryan, of Brixton; b. Jan. 31, 1878; adm. April 28, 1892 (H); left Dec. 1893.
RYALL (or ROYALL), GEORGE, son of George Ryall, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; bapt. 9 Sep 1559; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1578, matr. 20 Nov 1581, aged 21, Westminster Student; BA 30 Jan 1581/2; MA 10 Feb 1584/5; ordained; Rector of Middleton, Essex 1591-1604, res.
RUTTON, WILLIAM ISAAC, elder son of Isaac Rutton, Whitehill, Faversham, Kent, and Mary, dau. of William Wood, Eastchurch, Kent; b. 4 Nov 1768 (IGI); adm. 13 Jul 1782; KS (aged 15) 1783; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void 12 Dec 1789 (for absence).