Andrew Ryan (diplomat)

{{Short description|British diplomat (1876–1949)}}

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Andrew Ryan

| honorific_suffix = {{post nominals|GBR|KBE|CMG}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|11|5|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|12|31|1876|11|5|df=yes}}

| nationality = British

| occupation = Diplomat

| alma_mater = Queens College Cork (RUI)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

| parents = Edward Ryan
Matilda Ryan

| children = Columba Ryan
John Ryan

| relatives = Bishop Finbar Ryan (brother)
Prof. Mary Ryan (sister)
Sir Thomas Ryan (brother)

}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

Sir Andrew Ryan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|CMG}} (5 November 1876 – 31 December 1949) was a British diplomat.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U231373 |title=RYAN, Sir Andrew|work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black |access-date=7 November 2012}} He was Consul-General to Morocco from 1924 to 1930, Minister to Saudi Arabia from 1930 to 1936,{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/britishambassadors/pdf/AMBS%201880-2012.pdf|title=British Ambassadors and High Commissioners 1880-2010|publisher=Colin Mackie, Gulabin.com|access-date=12 November 2012}} and Consul-General to Albania from 1936 to 1939.{{cite book|last=Elsie|first=Robert|title=Historical Dictionary of Albania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haFlGXIg8uoC&pg=PA11|access-date=2 October 2012|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6188-6|page=11}}

Ryan was born on 5 November 1876 in Rochestown, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Edward Ryan, a soap and candle manufacturer of Douglas, Cork, and his wife Matilda O'Connor. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College, Cork, and at Queen's College, Cork, where he graduated BA in Greek and Latin from the Royal University of Ireland, and then proceeded to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where from 1897 to 1899 he trained as an interpreter on a course run for the consular department of the British Foreign Office, studying Arabic, Turkish, and law.David Morray, [https://www.dib.ie/biography/ryan-sir-andrew-a7857 "Sir Andrew Ryan"], Dictionary of Irish Biography online edition

In 1913 Ryan married Ruth Margaret van Millingen of Dunblane, Perthshire. They had four sons, including the Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher Columba Ryan and the cartoonist John Ryan.{{Cite news|date=2009-07-24|title=John Ryan|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5899923/John-Ryan.html|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0307-1235}}

His sister Mary Ryan was the first woman to become a professor in Great Britain or Ireland. His brother Sir Thomas Ryan (1879–1934) worked in the Indian Civil Service, and a younger brother was the Dominican priest Patrick Finbar Ryan OP, Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Ryan's autobiography, The Last of the Dragomans, was published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951.