Rupert Ryan
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Rupert Ryan CMG DSO |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Flinders |
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In office 21 September 1940 – 26 August 1952 |
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| Preceded by | James Fairbairn |
| Succeeded by | Keith Ewert |
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| Born |
6 May 1884 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Died | 25 August 1952 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
UAP (1940–45) Liberal (1945–52) |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Rosemary Constance Ferelith |
| Occupation | Soldier, landowner |
Rupert Sumner Ryan, CMG DSO (6 May 1884 – 25 August 1952) was an Australian soldier and politician.
Ryan was born in Melbourne to surgeon Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan and Alice Elfrida, née Sumner. He was one of two siblings; his sister Ethel Marian "Maie" Sumner would later marry Richard Casey. Ryan attended Geelong Church of England Grammar School 1895-98 before travelling to England to complete his education at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy.
In 1904, Ryan was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. At the outset of World War I, he was stationed on the Western Front. At the end of the war (1919) he was a lieutenant colonel, and was awarded three foreign honours and the Distinguished Service Order in 1918, having been wounded in 1915 in the Battle of Festubert.
Ryan was the chief of staff to the governor of Cologne in 1919, and was shifted to the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission headquarters in 1920. He married Lady Rosemary Constance Hay, the daughter of the high commissioner the Earl of Erroll, at the British consulate on 29 May 1924. They had one child, Patrick Vincent Charles Ryan, and divorced in 1935, whereafter he returned to Victoria to Edrington, the property he had inherited near Berwick. He and his sister built the station into a very successful Romney Marsh stud; he also built a landing strip there in 1939.
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