Ryder was born in India in 1908 to Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder , Surveyor General of India , and Ida Josephine Grigg . He was a great-grandson of the Right Reverend Henry Ryder , youngest son of Nathaniel Ryder , 1st Baron Harrowby . Ryder had two brothers ; both were killed in the Second World War . Lisle Charles Dudley Ryder died in the Le Paradis massacre of 1940 in France . Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder died in captivity after the defence of Singapore . Ryder was educated at Hazelhurst School and Cheltenham College before he entered the Royal Navy in 1926
Le Paradis massacre
Le Paradis massacre
Robert Ryder