1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merton and Morden Constituency – Biography of Ryder

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Ryder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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