Xanthe Veronica Dalglish (née Ryder) (15 May 1926 – 1 January 1998), wife of Michael de Lauret Dalglish, was a British alpine skier who competed under the name Xanthe Ryder in two events at the 1948 Winter Olympics.

[1][2][3] Xanthe Veronica Ryder was the middle daughter of British peer Major Algernon Frederick Roland Dudley Ryder and his French-Canadian wife Edythe Olive Baillie.

After finishing third in the slalom at the Flatlander’s Championship at Mürren in January 1948, Ryder was selected for the Great Britain team in February of the same year.

[8] The team's captain Miss Isobel Roe, a close friend of Ryder's, would go on to receive the Pery Medal by the Ski Club of Great Britain.

[9] Ryder married Michael de Lauret Dalglish on 27 April 1949 at the Brompton Oratory, followed by a reception in Mayfair, London.