HARROWBY, DUDLEY RYDER, 1ST EARL OF (1762 1847), the eldest son of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby was born in London on Dec. 22, 1762, and educated at St. John's college, Cambridge. He entered parliament in 1784, and held various offices in administrations from 1789 onwards. In 1804 he was secretary of State for foreign affairs and in 1805 chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster under his intimate friend William Pitt; in 1805 he was sent on a mission to the emperors of Austria and Russia and the king of Prussia, and for the long period between 1812 and 1827 he was lord president of the council. After Canning's death in 1827 he refused the premier ship, and never held office again. He died at Sandon Hall, Staffs, on Dec. 26, 1847, being, as Charles Greville says, "the last of his generation and of the colleagues of Mr. Pitt, the sole survivor of those stirring times and mighty contests."