Career
Ryder"s lifelong connection with John Henry Newman and the Oratory began as a private pupil, when he was about twelve years old. The only interruption was a year at the English College at Rome and a few months at the Catholic University, Dublin, of which Newman was rector, before he began in December, 1856, his Oratorian novitiate. In 1863 he was ordained priest.
After Cardinal Newman"s death he was elected superior of the Birmingham Oratory and held this office till his health gave way.
His grave is with theirs and Cardinal Newman"s at Rednal, a small country house belonging to the Birmingham Oratory, about seven miles from Birmingham. His life was uneventful.
He cared little for notoriety or even fame. Once only did he push himself forward.
This was in 1867-1868, when he attacked West. G. Ward, at that time editor of Dublin Review.
His opinions on papal infallibility, according to Ryder, were a caricature, and he delivered his protest in three pamphlets. He was criticised for them. The grandfather, Henry Dudley Ryder, was a prominent Anglican Evangelical bishop.
The three other Misses Sargent married Samuel Wilberforce, Henry Wilberforce, and Henry Edward Manning.