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Richard D. Ryder : biography

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Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder (born 1940) is a British writer and psychologist.

Ryder became known in the 1970s as a member of the Oxford Group, a group of intellectuals loosely centred around the University of Oxford who began to speak out against animal use, in particular factory farming and animal research.Ryder, Richard D. (2009). "The Oxford Group," in Marc Bekoff (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, pp. 261–262. He was working at the time as a clinical psychologist at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, and had himself been involved in animal research in the United Kingdom and United States.Notes on the Contributors, in Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch and John Harris (eds.) (1971). Animals, Men and Morals. Grove Press.

In 1970 he coined the term speciesism to describe the exclusion of nonhuman animals from the protections available to human beings. In 1977 he became chairman of the RSPCA Council, serving until 1979, and helped to organize the first academic animal rights conference, held in August 1977 at Trinity College, Cambridge. The conference produced a "Declaration against Speciesism," signed by 150 people."A Declaration against Speciesism," in David Paterson and Richard D. Ryder (1979). Animals’ Rights – A Symposium. Centaur Press Ltd.

  • Ryder, Richard D. (1979). "The Struggle Against Speciesism," in Paterson and Ryder, op cit.

Ryder is the author of a number of books about animal research, animal rights, and morality in politics, including Victims of Science (1975), Animal Revolution (1989), and Painism: A Modern Morality (2001).

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Background

Ryder was born in Purbeck, Dorset, to Major Douglas Claud "Jack" Dudley Ryder, and his second wife, Vera Hamilton-Fletcher (née Cook). Jack Dudley Ryder was the great-grandson of the Honourable Granville Ryder (1799–1879), second son of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762–1847). Ryder was raised on the family estate, Rempstone Hall, in Corfe Castle.Ryder, Richard D. (March 2006). , Dorset Life.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge (1960–1963), followed by a period of research into animal behaviour at Columbia University, and a diploma in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh. After Edinburgh, he worked as a clinical psychologist at the Warneford psychiatric hospital in Oxford. In 1980 he ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, and founded the Liberal Democrat’s Animal Protection Group. He later went back to Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in Social and Political Sciences in 1993. He held an Andrew W. Mellon visiting professorship at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1996., richardryder.co.uk.

Selected publications

  • (1970). , privately printed leaflet, Oxford.
  • (1971). "Experiments on Animals," in Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch and John Harris. Animals, Men and Morals. Grove Press, Inc.
  • (1974). Speciesism: The Ethics of Vivisection. Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection.
  • (1975). Victims of Science: The Use of Animals in Research. Davis-Poynter Ltd.
  • with W. Lane-Petter et al (September 1976). , Journal of Medical Ethics. Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 118-126.
  • with David Paterson (eds.) (1979). Animals’ Rights – A Symposium. Centaur Press Ltd.
  • (1989). Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism. McFarland & Co Inc.
  • (ed.) (1992). Animal Welfare and the Environment. Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, in association with the RSPCA
  • (1991). "Animal Experimentation: Sentientism," The Psychologist, vol 4, 1991.
  • (1992). "Painism: Ethics, Animal Rights and Environmentalism," UWCC Centre for Applied Ethics.
  • (ed.) (1992). The Duty of Mercy by Humphrey Primatt (first published 1776). Open Gate Press.
  • (1998). The Political Animal: The Conquest of Speciesism. McFarland & Co Inc.
  • (2001). Painism. A Modern Morality. Open Gate Press.
  • (2005). The Calcrafts of Rempstone Hall: The Intriguing History of a Dorset Dynasty. Halsgrove.
  • (2006). Putting Morality Back into Politics. Imprint Academic.
  • (2009). Nelson, Hitler and Diana: Studies in Trauma and Celebrity. Imprint Academic.
  • (2009). , Think, vol 8, pp 85-89.
  • (2011). Speciesism, Painism and Happiness. Imprint Academic.