Herbert Edward Ryle
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The Right Reverend Sir Herbert Ryle KCVO |
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| Dean of Westminster | |
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| In office | 1911–1925 (death) |
| Predecessor | Armitage Robinson |
| Successor | William Foxley Norris |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Exeter (1900–1903) Bishop of Winchester (1903–1911) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 May 1856 Onslow Square, South Kensington, London |
| Died | 20 August 1925 (aged 69) The Deanery, Westminster |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | J. C. Ryle (Bishop of Liverpool) |
| Spouse | Nea Hewish Adams (m.1883) |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Sir Herbert Edward Ryle KCVO (25 May 1856 – 20 August 1925) was a British author, Old Testament scholar and successively the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester and the Dean of Westminster.
Ryle was born in Onslow Square, South Kensington, London, on 25 May 1856, the second son of John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), the first Bishop of Liverpool, and his second wife, Jessie Elizabeth Walker. Herbert Ryle was three years old when his mother died, and in 1861 his father married Henrietta Clowes, who was a loving mother to her stepchildren. Ryle and his brothers and sisters were brought up in their father's country parishes in Suffolk, first at Helmingham and after 1861 at Stradbroke.
After attending school at Hill House, in Wadhurst, Sussex, Ryle went to Eton College in 1868. In 1875 he won the Newcastle scholarship, and in the same year he proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, as a classical scholar. A football accident in 1877 prevented him from further involvement in athletics and he took an Aegrotat degree in 1879. Between 1879 and 1881, however, he won every distinction open at Cambridge to students of theology, including a first class in the theological tripos.
Ryle was elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in April 1881, and began a career of twenty years as a teacher. He was ordained deacon in 1882 and priest in 1883. On 15 August 1883 he married Nea Hewish Adams. They had three sons, the eldest of whom died at birth. The youngest, aged only eight, died in 1897.
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