Ryder Memorial Prize

The Ryder Memorial Prize founded in memory of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder, K.C.B., who died on the 30th April, 1888 was a prize of books awarded to the Sub-Lieutenant who placed highest in the examination in French at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

The Navy List describes the Prize as follows:

The Ryder Memorial Fund consists of a sum of about 160 pounds invested in Government securities.

The dividend arising from this sum is employed annually in the provision of a prize of a book or books, to be awarded to the Lieutenant who takes the first place in French at the annual examinations in foreign languages, a colloquial knowledge of the language being necessary to render a candidate eligible for the award of the prize.

The Ryder Prize may be withheld in any year it is considered advisable.

Recipients

The recipients are denoted in Navy Lists by a [R] appearing after their name in the Navy List's seniority list. The year of the award is often found on their Service Record.

Year	Recipient	Notes
1890	Horace L. A. Hood
1893	Wilfred Henderson
1894	Charles D. Carpendale
1896	Herbert N. Garnett
1897	George F. S. Bowles
1898	Barry E. Domvile
1898	Geoffrey B. Spicer-Simson
1899	Cecil V. Usborne
1901	George T. C. P. Swabey
1902	Vivian R. Brandon
1903	Alexander H. Gye
1906	Hobart W. T. R. Seymour
1908	William O. Hozier
1910	Donald J. S. Oswald
1911	Arthur H. L. Terry
1914	Alexander G. Murray
1916	Roland Leeds
c. 1918	Geoffrey E. L. Veale
c. 1918	Malcolm G. Saunders
YEAR	Arthur R. Halfhide
YEAR	Neville F. Usborne
YEAR	Bryan G. Scurfield
YEAR	Geoffrey D. St. Q. Marescaux
1922	Charles H. Drage
YEAR	John Dreyer Shaw-Hamilton
YEAR	Dermot Grove-White
YEAR	John G. Hunt
YEAR	Richard I. A. Sarell
YEAR	William F. R. Segrave
1931?	Robert G. Norfolk
1932?	Edward K. U. Clark
1933?	Robin C. B. Buckley
1934?	George G. A. F. Butler
1935?	George E. P. Milburn
1936?	Robert Scott
1937?	Gerald W. L. A. Bayly
1938?	Hugh Wake
1939?	Ralph A. St. C. Sproul-Bolton