Edmund Giles Loder

Edmund Giles Loder
Born(1849-08-07)7 August 1849
London, England
Died14 April 1920(1920-04-14) (aged 70)
NationalityEnglish
EducationEton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Landowner
Plantsman
SpouseMarion Hubbard
Parent(s)Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet
Maria Georgiana Busk
RelativesHans Busk (maternal grandfather)

Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (7 August 1849 – 14 April 1920) was an English aristocrat, landowner and plantsman.

Biography

Early life

Edmund Giles Loder was born on 7 August 1849 in London, England.[1][2] His father was Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, a landowner and Conservative politician, and his mother, Maria Georgiana Busk. His maternal grandfather was Hans Busk, a Welsh poet.

He was educated at Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, and graduated from Trinity College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. When at Eton he competed in the 100 yards event at the AAC Championships, winning the silver medal at the 1869 AAC Championships.[3][4]

Career

He served as a Justice of the Peace for Sussex and Northampshire.

Loder was active as a plant collector, breeder and grower. He developed hybrid rhododendrons from crosses between R. fortunei and R. griffithianum. The plants were named the Loderi hybrids and group in his honour. Three, Loderi King George, Loderi Pink Diamond and Loder's White, have received the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. He developed the garden at his home at Leonardslee extensively.[5]

Personal life

Loder is a Member of the Loder (Family)

He married Marion Hubbard, daughter of William Egerton Hubbard. They had two children:

  • Patience Marion Loder (1882–1963). She married Walter William Otter (unknown-1940).
  • Robert Egerton Loder (1887–1917). He married Muriel Rolls Hoare (1879–1955). They had one son:

They resided at Beach House in Worthing, West Sussex.[6] During his visits to Brighton, King Edward VII (1841–1910) would spend time in the garden at Beach House with his friend Arthur Sassoon (1840–1912).[6] They also resided at Leonardslee in Lower Beeding near Horsham in West Sussex.

He died on 14 April 1920.[1][2]

Natural history collection

Loder kept a menagerie in the grounds of Leonardslee, the family ancestral home in Sussex. Many of the animals were made into osteology specimens, and 200 skulls and skeletons are now are in the collection of World Museum, National Museums Liverpool, being presented to the museum in 1961.[7] A number of the game heads from Loder's museum are in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game.[8] These were accumulated through Loder's hunting expeditions, but also purchase.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b The National Archives
  2. ^ a b Natural History Museum
  3. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Amateur Athletic Club Champions Meeting". Morning Post. 5 April 1869. Retrieved 20 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ Slade, Naomi (July 2022). "Starting a colourful new chapter". The Garden. 147 (4): 100–106.
  6. ^ a b Adam Trimingham, A grand day out, The Argus, July 1, 2013
  7. ^ Clemency Thorne Fisher; Antony Parker; Antony Freestone Roberts (March 1999). Catalogue of the Osteological Specimens in the Collections of the Zoology Department of Liverpool Museum.
  8. ^ a b Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward) (1923). Edmund Loder, naturalist, horticulturist, traveller and sportsman : a memoir. Gerstein - University of Toronto. London : J. Murray.
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