Sue Ryder
/ˌsuː ˈraɪdə(r)/
/ˌsuː ˈraɪdər/
- (1923-2000) an English charity worker. In 1953 she started the Sue Ryder Foundation (now called Sue Ryder), which gives care to sick people and people with disabilities in centres around the world. She had played an important part in the Second World War, working with people who resisted the Nazis in Poland. In 1959 she married Leonard Cheshire, who had done a lot of charity work similar to hers. She was made a life peer in 1978.