Ryland, Robert
clergyman, college president, was born March 14, 1805, in King and Queen county, Va. In 1832 he took charge of the manual-labor school in Richmond, and when that school was chartered in 1844 as Richmond college hè was made its president, serving until 1866. For twenty-five years he acted as pastor of the First African Baptist church of Richmond, during which time he baptized into its fellowship nearly 4,000 persons. In 1868 he removed to Kentucky, where he has been engaged in the work of teaching and preaching..