Dear Editor,
Regarding Charles Gardner’s letter in the December en [see the letter online here] about the Ryder Cup’s Christian origins, I would like to point out that although Samuel Ryder was born in Lancashire, he and his siblings moved to Sale, then Ashton upon Mersey, in Cheshire.
His father, Samuel (senior) had a market gardening, floristry and seed business and was a prominent member of the local Primitive Methodist Church – the most evangelical branch of the Methodists. He was a local preacher and the oldest Sunday School teacher at the old chapel on Chapel Lane before his death in 1904.
