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

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politician, and his mother, Maria Georgiana Busk. His maternal grandfather was Hans Busk, a Welsh poet. He was educated at

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, a private boarding school in

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, and graduated from Trinity College, a

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of the

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. When at Eton he competed in the 100 yards event at the AAC Championships, winning the silver medal at the 1869 AAC Championships.

Career

He served as a Justice of the Peace for

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and Northampshire. Loder was active as a plant collector, breeder and grower. He developed hybrid

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s 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

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from the

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. He developed the garden at his home at

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extensively.

Personal life

Loder was 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: ** Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (1914–1999). They resided at

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in Worthing, West Sussex.Adam Trimingham
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(1841–1910) would spend time in the garden at Beach House with his friend Arthur Sassoon (1840–1912). They also resided at

in Lower Beeding near Horsham in West Sussex. He died on 14 April 1920.

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

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specimens, and 200 skulls and skeletons are now are in the collection of

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, being presented to the museum in 1961. A number of the game heads from Loder's museum are in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game. These were accumulated through Loder's hunting expeditions, but also purchase.

Bibliography

* ''Conifers at Leonardslee'' (1919). * ''Edmund Loder: A memoir, with a portrait'' (with Sir Alfred Pease, 2nd Baronet, 1923).

References

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