University of Oxford Botanic Garden Middle-earth. In the Evelyn Waugh novel "Brideshead Revisited", Lord Sebastian Flyte takes Charles Ryder "to see the ivy" soon after they first meet. As he says, "Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn! There's a beautiful arch there and more different kinds of ivy than I knew existed. I don't know where I should be without the Botanical gardens" (Chapter One). In Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels "His Dark Materials", a bench in the back of the garden is one of the locations/objects that stand parallel in the two different worlds that the protagonists, Lyra Belacqua and Will
Eddie Ryder go on in the 1950s to appear in several TV series, many as an uncredited actor, and top films. The 1960s brought several credited appearances in major TV and film. For Ryder, the 1970s kept him in television as a secondary actor and mostly making single appearances. During the 1980s, Ryder appeared in 3 television series and 1 film: "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Hill Street Blues", and "General Hospital." In 1986, Ryder appeared in the comedy "A Masterpiece of Murder" with Bob Hope and Don Ameche. Eddie Ryder Eddie Ryder (January 23, 1923 – March 29, 1997) was an American