Sir Charles Lister Ryan KCB JP (30 September 1831 – 20 November 1920) was a British civil servant.

[2] He was born in St John's, Worcester,[3] the fifth son of barrister Sir Edward Ryan and Louisa Whitmore.

[1] Ryan was a Clerk in the Treasury (1851–65), also serving as private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli (1858), Sir Stafford Northcote (1859), and William Ewart Gladstone when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859–65).

[6] In 1862, Ryan married Jane Georgiana, daughter of Sir John Shaw Lefevre and sister of Lord Eversley.

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