Beschreibung:

The following six lots were commissioned by Archbishop John Ryder and have descended in the vendor's family to date. John Ryder was the youngest son of a non-conformist family from Lincolnshire. Endlessly flexible, they managed to get themselves ennobled and embraced the established church. Ryder through his connections managed to be appointed to the Irish Church, a standard career move against which Swift had previously fulminated. He lived in considerable style in Dublin and married his family into the landed gentry. A RARE BRONZE EPISCOPAL SEAL MATRIX, inscribed around: The Seal of John Ryder Arch Bishop of Tuam and Bishop of Ardagh 1752, the arms of the Bishop and the diocese, oval 8cms The following six lots were commissioned by Archbishop John Ryder and have descended in the vendor's family to date. John Ryder was the youngest son of a non-conformist family from Lincolnshire. Endlessly flexible, they managed to get themselves ennobled and embraced the established church. Ryder through his connections managed to be appointed to the Irish Church, a standard career move against which Swift had previously fulminated. He lived in considerable style in Dublin and married his family into the landed gentry. A RARE BRONZE EPISCOPAL SEAL MATRIX, inscribed around: The Seal of John Ryder Arch Bishop of Tuam and Bishop of Ardagh 1752, the arms of the Bishop and the diocese, oval 8cms