Rylands is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Dadie Rylands (1902–1999), British literary scholar and theatre director
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Dave Rylands (born 1953), English footballer
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Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843–1908), English philanthropist
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George Rylands
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.
Rylands was born at the Down House, Tockington, Gloucestershire, to Thomas Kirkland R ...
, real name of 'Dadie' Rylands (above)
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John Rylands
John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester's first multi-millionaire.
After having lea ...
(1801–1888), English textile merchant and philanthropist
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John Paul Rylands (1846–1923), English lawyer, genealogist and topographer
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Mark Rylands (born 1961), Church of England bishop
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Patrick Rylands (born 1943), English designer
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Peter Rylands (1820–1887), English wire manufacturer and politician
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William Rylands (1868–1948), British businessman
See also
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Ryland (disambiguation)
*The
John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a Victorian era, late-Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. The library, which opened to t ...
in Manchester
*The
John Rylands University Library
The University of Manchester Library is the library system and information service of the University of Manchester. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the university, with its entrance on Burlington Street. There are also ten other ...
in Manchester
*In
St Breward parish, Cornwall, is a hamlet called Rylands
*The southern part of the town of
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
Beeston is a town in the Borough of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, south-west of Nottingham city centre. To its north-east is the University of Nottingham's main campus, University Park. The pharmaceutical and retail chemist group Boot ...
is called Rylands
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Warrington Rylands, English football team from
Warrington
Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
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