Name: Thomas Arthur Ryder
Year of Registration: 1902
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 299

Year: 1902
Month: Apr
Day: 4
Parents_Surname: RYDER
Child_Forenames: Thomas Arthur
Fathers_Forenames: Thomas Edwin
Mothers_Forenames: Edith
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Westbury Village
Occupation: Grocer
Officiating_Minister: Leonard Wilkinson Vicar
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Born 1902 March 16th
Notes:
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/18
Page_Number: 13
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn

Name: . T. A Ryder
Address: Yorkley
Exchange: parsonage
Directory title: Norwich / Cambridge / Essex / East Suffolk / East Hertfordshire / South Midland / Guildford / Brighton / Tunbridge Wells / Canterbury / Southampton / Portsmouth / Bournemouth / Bristol / Exeter / Plymouth / South Wales / Gloucester
Publication Year: 1936

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Portrait of Gloucestershire by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Hale, 1966

Mother earth by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1947

The right way to efficient thinking, reasoning and conversation . by Thomas Arthur Ryder
A. G. Elliot, 1949

Searchlight on morals. by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Watts, 1953

Psychology and you. by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Elliott, 1960

Portrait of Gloucestershire by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Hale, 1969

Efficient thinking, reasoning and conversation. by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Elliot, 1963

You can be a local councillor by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Elliot, 1955

Mid-Gloucestershire through the ages. by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Littlebury & Co, 1951

Gloucestershire through the ages. by Thomas Arthur Ryder
Littlebury, 1950

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Year: 1842
Month: Apl
Day: 4
Parents_Surname: RIDER
Child_Forenames: Thomas
Fathers_Forenames: Thomas
Mothers_Forenames: Anne
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Westbury
Occupation: Farmer
Officiating_Minister: TM Wetherell Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Received into the Church May 8th
Notes: In this record a surname was not clear so the best guess was given
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/14
Page_Number: 36
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn

Name: Thomas Ryder
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Year of Registration: 1914
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 71
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 377

Re THOMAS RYDER, Deceased.
Pursuant to the Act of Parliament of the 2<ind and
23rd Viet., c. 35.
"VTOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and
J_i other persons having any debts, claims, or
demands against the estate of Thomas Ryder, late of
Emmings Farm, Elton, Westbury-on-Severn,
Glos, .in the county of Gloucester, deceased (who
died on the 19th day of March, 1914, and whose will
was proved in the Gloucester District Registry of
the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of
Justice on the 30th July, 1914, by George Evans
New, the executor therein named), are hereby required
to send in the particulars of their debts, claims, or
demands to the undersigned, on .or before the 22nd
day of September, 1914, after which date the executor
will proceed to distribute the assets of the said
deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, having
regard only to the claims and demands of which he
shall then have had notice; and he will'not be liable
for the assetsi of the said deceased, or any part
thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons of
whose debts, claims, or demands he shall not then
have had notice.—Dated this llth day of August,
1914.
MAURICE F. CARTER, Solicitor, Newnham,
027 Glos.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

There is a death registered in CHELTENHAM District - Jan/Feb/March Qtr 1981 of

Thomas Arthur RYDER - date of birth 16 March 1902
(which ties up with 'Slowhands' birth April/May/June Qtr 1902 Westbury on Severn)

I do have a copy of T A Ryder's book (first edition - 1966 reprinted Edition 1976) - which I've hunted out of the bookcase.....

Portrait of Gloucestershire - which says this 'About the Author' on the back inside cover.

T A Ryder comes of a family that has farmed in Gloucestershire for over four hundred years. A Fellow of the Geological Society of London, he has also been Chairman of the Gloucestershire branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. He has written several books about the County and on other subjects, appeared on TV broadcasts, and lectures for Bristol University and the W.E.A. He is at present Vicar of Cam.

Front inside covers......

Gloucestershire contains within its boundaries more geological variety than any other English county. This gives rise to many types of soil and consequent variety of scenery, flora, fauna and natural resources, all of which have influenced the county's history and its present state. .......... the early chapters, describe the geological and historical events that have moulded the county and produced the Gloucestershire of today......

He says....

"I was born in Westbury-on-Severn and lived there as a boy on my father's farm. Incidentally, my family has farmed in that same parish for well over four hundred years. From the highest part of the farm we looked over the greater part of the country - in fact, all that could be seen lay within it. The farm lay on the outer eastern slope of the Forest of Dean which rose behind us, capped by Chestnuts Wood, near Littledean, and the tree-tufted hill erroneously called the Roman Camp, but which was actually a much later earthwork constructed as to look-out in the twelfth century of the defences of Gloucester, to warn maybe, of Welsh raiding parties"

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Although my x Great Uncle the Rev W S Wickenden wasn't a well known Author from Etloe, T A Ryder did include him in this particular book, and quoted one of his poems describing the Severn Bore thus:

And see, hoarse Boreas shakes the craggy shore,
And circling eddies mark the whitening bore,
And wave impelled by wave, tremendous sound
And like a deluge whelms the hissing ground

(think my old English Teacher would have told William - too many and's....)

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T A Ryder, also talks about a Fred Archer, whose racing career has never been surpassed. He was born in Cheltenham, in 1857, but when he was two years old his family moved to Prestbury, where his father became the landlord of the Kings Arms Inn, hence the plaque on one of the walls there which bears this inscription.

At this Prestbury inn lived Fred Archer the jockey,
Who trained upon toast, Cheltenham water and toffee
The shoe of his pony, hangs up in the bar,
Where they drink to his prowess from near and from far,
But the man in the street passes by without knowledge
That 'twas here Archer swallowed his earliest porridge

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He mentions a churchyard at Lydney with a small memorial stone....

Here a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies
Pray be silent and not stir
The easy earth that covers her