Ryle was ed­u­cat­ed at Eton and at Christ Church, Ox­ford, where he was Cra­ven Schol­ar in 1836. He served as a curate in Ex­bu­ry, Hamp­shire; Rec­tor of St Thom­as’, Win­ches­ter (1843); Rec­tor of Helm­ing­ham, Suf­folk (1844); Vi­car of Strad­broke (1861); Hon­or­ary Can­on of Nor­wich (1872); and Dean of Sal­is­bu­ry (1880). Be­fore tak­ing the lat­ter of­fice, though, he was ap­point­ed the first An­gli­can bi­shop of Li­ver­pool, at the re­com­men­da­tion of Prime Min­is­ter Ben­ja­min Dis­rae­li. He re­tired in 1900. His works in­clude:

• The Ad­dit­ion­al Hymn Book, 1875

• Julian, p. 340

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