Ryder Memorial Prize

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The Ryder Memorial Prize founded in memory of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alfred Phlllipps Ryder, K.C.B., who died on the 30th April, 1888 was a prize of books awarded to the Sub-Lieutenant who placed highest in the examination in French at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

The Navy List describes the Prize as follows:[1]

The Ryder Memorial Fund consists of a sum of about 160 pounds invested in Government securities.

The dividend arising from this sum is employed annually in the provision of a prize of a book or books, to be awarded to the Lieutenant who takes the first place in French at the annual examinations in foreign languages, a colloquial knowledge of the language being necessary to render a candidate eligible for the award of the prize.

The Ryder Prize may be withheld in any year Is considered advisable.

Recipients

Year Recipient Notes
1890 Horace L. A. Hood
1893 Wilfred Henderson
1894 Charles D. Carpendale
1896 Herbert N. Garnett
1898 Barry E. Domvile
1898 Geoffrey B. Spicer-Simson
1899 Cecil V. Usborne
1901 George T. C. P. Swabey
1902 Vivian R. Brandon
YEAR Neville F. Usborne
1906 Alexander H. Gye
1908 William O. Hozier
1909 Hobart W. T. R. Seymour
1910 Donald J. S. Oswald
1911 Arthur R. Halfhide
1913 Arthur H. L. Terry
1914 Alexander G. Murray
1916 Roland Leeds
? Bryan G. Scurfield
c. 1918 Geoffrey E. L. Veale
c. 1918 Malcolm G. Saunders
? Geoffrey D. St. Q. Marescaux
? John Dreyer Shaw-Hamilton
? Dermot Grove-White
? John Gunthorpe Hunt
? Richard Iwan Alexander Sarell
? William Francis Roderick Segrave
1931? Robert Galliano Norfolk
1932? Edward Keats Urling Clark
1933? Robin Cecil Burton Buckley
1934? George Gerald Augustin Francis Butler
1935? George Edward Pollington Milburn
1936? Erroll Bruce Robert Scott
1937? Gerald Wentworth Loscombe Abingdon Bayly
1938? Hugh Wake
1939? Ralph Alexander St. Clair Sproul-Bolton

See Also

  1. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 2333.