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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = C. H. D. Ryder
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|CIE|DSO}}
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| office = [[Surveyor General of India]]
| term_start = 1919
| term_end = 1924
| predecessor = [[Sidney Gerald Burrard]]
| successor = Edward Aldborough Tandy

| birth_name = Charles Henry Dudley Ryder
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1868|6|28}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1945|7|13|1868|6|28}}
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| nationality = English
| spouse = {{marriage|Ida Josephine Grigg|1892}}
| children = Six, including [[Robert Ryder|Robert Ryder VC]]
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[[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] '''Charles Henry Dudley Ryder''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|CIE|DSO}} (28 June 1868 – 13 July 1945) was an English army officer and explorer. An officer of the [[Royal Engineers]], [[British Army]], he served as [[Surveyor General of India]] from 1919 to 1924. During his career, he undertook a number of surveys; including in China's [[Yunnan province]], [[Tibet]] and the [[Himalayas]], the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)|North-West Frontier Province]], the [[Turco-Persian]] border, in [[Mesopotamia]], and throughout India.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |last1=Rudmose Brown |first1=R. N. |last2=Prior |first2=Katherine |editor1-first=Katherine |editor1-last=Prior |authorlink1=Robert Rudmose-Brown |title=Ryder, Charles Henry Dudley (1868–1945) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35895 |year=2004 |access-date=15 May 2019 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35895}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1892, Ryder married Ida Josephine Grigg (1872/3–1948). Together they had six children: three daughters were born in the 19th-century and three sons were born in the 20th-century. His two eldest sons were killed in action in the [[Second World War]].<ref name="ODNB" /> His youngest son, [[Robert Ryder]], was a Royal Navy officer who was awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] and later became a Member of Parliament.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Howe |first1=A. C. |authorlink1=Anthony Howe (historian) |title=Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley (1908–1986) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-45738 |access-date=15 May 2019 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:on/45738 |date=6 January 2011}}</ref>

==Honours==
In 1905, he was awarded the [[Patron's Medal]] by the [[Royal Geographical Society]] "For his survey of Yunnan and his work in connection with the Tibet Mission".<ref>{{cite web |title=Medals and Awards: Gold Medal Recipients |url=https://www.rgs.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?nodeguid=5e66a0af-8ada-4b4b-9b00-915cbc97082b&lang=en-GB |website=Royal Geographical Society |access-date=15 May 2019 |format=pdf |date=2018}}</ref> That same year, he was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) "in recognition of the services [...] with the Tibet Mission Escort".<ref name="LG DSO">{{London Gazette |issue= 27833 |date= 5 September 1905 |page= 6055 |city= London }}</ref>

In the [[1915 King's Birthday Honours]], Ryder was appointed a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) following his time in charge of the "Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, Survey Detachment".<ref name="LG CSI">{{London Gazette |issue= 12813 |date= 4 June 1915 |pages= 773-774 |city= Edinburgh }}</ref> In the [[1922 King's Birthday Honours]], he was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB).<ref name="LG CB">{{London Gazette |issue= 13819 |date= 3 June 1922 |page= 975 |city= Edinburgh }}</ref>

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Charles Henry Dudley Ryder - Revision history

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