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About Alfred Ryder
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he undertook the role of transporting Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, the Portuguese ambassador, back home to Lisbon and then delivering the Percy Doyle, the British ambassador to the Republic of Mexico, to Mexico City. He then led a naval brigade dispatched to Nicaragua to deal with the unlawful detention of two British subjects. He pursued the Nicaraguan commander, a Colonel Salas, for 30 miles up the San Juan River and captured the fort at Serapique.
Everything about Alfred Ryder →- Occupation
- naval officer
- Position held
- Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty
- Born
- June 27, 1820
- Died
- April 30, 1888