The Herts Advertiser has agreed to become the official media partner of the Samuel Ryder Foundation. The newspaper will be supporting the Foundation’s fundraising work for a statue of Samuel in the heart of St Albans, and its activities promoting sponsorship for young and aspiring golfers, greenkeepers and horticulturalists.
Editor Matt Adams said: “I am delighted that the Herts Ad has become the official media partner of the Samuel Ryder Foundation, and look forward to working with them closely in the future to celebrate one of St Albans’ greatest citizens.”
The Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with the Herts Advertiser and looks forward to a long and successful relationship through the coming years".
Francis Bacon School is to be re-named the ‘Samuel Ryder Academy’ when it re-opens in September 2012 as an ‘all-through’ school.
The name was chosen because it reflects the desire to make it a school that is very much at the heart of the St Albans community. Samuel Ryder was completely committed to the city, bringing business and employment to the locality but also getting fully involved in St Albans’ public life. He played a key role in the civic, commercial and community activities of St Albans not least through his time on the council and as Mayor.
The values of innovation and hard work that he showed in his life will be key values of the new academy too. His creation of the Ryder Cup, and his love of golf, show that he also appreciated the importance of a healthy lifestyle and of extra-curricular interests – which will also be central to the new academy.
Bryan Hanlon from the Samuel Ryder Foundation said:
“The Samuel Ryder Foundation is delighted to be associated with the new Samuel Ryder Academy. Apart from donating one of the world's most prestigious sporting trophies, Samuel should be remembered for his achievements in business, horticulture, public service and philanthropy. For him, St Albans was "the centre of the kingdom.”
Sir John Lawes School (SJL) in Harpenden are the lead sponsors of the new Academy which will become part of the wider Sir John Lawes’ Educational Trust which will sit over the top of both schools monitoring standards and performance.
Sir John Lawes Headteacher, Claire Robins said:
“Our key objectives over the next couple of years are to create a school that inspires confidence from its whole community and which enables its students to achieve more than they might ever have believed possible. We want to create a school where students are educated to play an active role in an ever-changing world and where they are given the skills to make a valuable contribution, locally, nationally and globally.”
Francis Bacon Chair of Governors Mary Braham said:
“The Governors of Francis Bacon support the name Samuel Ryder for the new academy enthusiastically. Though most people connect him with Golf he was much more than that as a modern man for St Albans, an entrepreneur, politician and churchman he had vision and community values for the people of St. Albans. He was dedicated to the improvement and the quality of his local community and worked tirelessly to develop that ethos. These are values the Samuel Ryder Academy will aspire to and promote.”
At a full Cabinet meeting on 5th April 2011, St Albans City and District Council debated, and fully endorsed, the Foundation’s proposal for a statue of Samuel Ryder to be erected in the very heart of the city. This is to be the first phase of the implementation of a Heritage Sculpture Trail, to be used as a way of raising the profile of art, culture and heritage in the city.
The St Albans Review said today:
“The £150,000 project, which will be funded by the Samuel Ryder Foundation, earned the enthusiastic backing of cabinet members at a meeting last night after they viewed a slick promotional video in which leading figures form the world of golf (including commentator Peter Alliss and former US Masters champion Ben Crenshaw) gave their backing to a ‘fitting tribute’ for a remarkable man”.
We warmly welcome this decision. The ball is now very firmly our court to raise the necessary funding for this major project to commemorate a man whose name is so widely known throughout the world.
On Wednesday 2nd of September 2010 trustees of The Samuel Ryder Foundation joined author Peter Fry and St Albans councillor Sheila Burton (Heritage and Culture Portfolio Holder) at the former magistrates court in The Old Town Hall. Peter was promoting the softback edition of his book “Samuel Ryder The Man Behind The Ryder Cup”.
The highlight of the afternoon was when Jean Taylor ex-employee of Ryder & Son came to purchase a signed copy of the book. Jean worked for three years in the despatch department, when the company was managed by Samuel's daughter Joan Ryder. She also revealed that her mother was taught at Sunday school by Joan.
On August 11th 2010 Mary Moore, granddaughter and closest living relative of Samuel Ryder, who now lives in Suffolk, was invited to visit Marlborough House, her grandparents former family home which became part of Loreto College in 1923.
Mary was accompanied by two of her cousins Diana, Jane and members of The Samuel Ryder Foundation. Mary a former student, was given an extensive guided tour of the campus by the management of the college. Afternoon tea was served in the boardroom.
On leaving the college, Mary visited the Hatfield Road cemetery where she paid her respects at Samuel’s grave.
Prior to their arrival at the college, the party had walked The Samuel Ryder Trail. They visited The Old Town Hall and court room, where Samuel Ryder held office as mayor and magistrate. She sat in the same chair her grandfather used as chief magistrate in 1905.
The day finished at The Comfort Hotel (Samuel Ryder’s head office building ). Samuel’ office is still very much as he left it, the original fireplace, has Samuel’s initials carved on it.
Mary said “ The whole day was emotional and heart warming, walking in the footsteps of my grandfather, whose Cup will be competed for at Celtic Manor in seven weeks time”.
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