| 词条 | Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst |
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Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, JP DL LLB (25 October 1861 – 30 April 1936) was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for developing the gardens at Wakehurst Place, Sussex. Background and educationThe fourth son of Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, Loder was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1888. CareerLoder was Conservative Member of Parliament for Brighton from 1889-1905. He was private secretary to the President of the Local Government Board (Charles Ritchie) from 1888-92 and to Lord George Hamilton (the Secretary of State for India) from 1896-1901. He served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905. {{cn|date=April 2014}} A keen gardener, Loder purchased the Wakehurst Place estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens, which today cover some two square kilometres (500 acres) and are owned by the National Trust. He was President of the Royal Arboricultural Society from 1926-27 and President of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1929 to 1931. He was a Director of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1896,[2] and served as its last Chairman in December 1922.[3] He was a director of its successor, the Southern Railway, and later Chairman from 1934 until his resignation in December 1934.[4] In June 1934 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wakehurst, of Ardingly in the County of Sussex. FamilyLord Wakehurst married Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk, eldest daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, in 1890. The couple had one son and four daughters:[5]
DeathLord Wakehurst died in April 1936, aged 74, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son, John. The Loder Cup, New Zealand's oldest conservation award, is named after Lord Wakehurst.[6] References1. ^{{acad|id=LDR881GW|name=Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine}} {{refbegin}}{{refend}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lbscr.demon.co.uk/people/directors.html |title=LB&SCR Directors |work=LB&SCR online |first=Dave |last=Searle |accessdate=26 April 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706131515/http://www.lbscr.demon.co.uk/people/directors.html |archivedate=6 July 2008 |df=dmy }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lbscr.demon.co.uk/people/chairmen.html|title=LB&SCR Chairmen|work=LB&SCR online|first=Dave|last=Searle|accessdate=2009-04-26}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Bonavia|first=Michael R.|year=1987|title=The History of the Southern Railway|location=London, UK|publisher=Unwin Hyman|isbn=0-04-385107-X}} pp. 24–25, 29. 5. ^The Peerage, entry for 1st Lord Wakehurst 6. ^New Zealand Department of Conservation; accessed 5 April 2014. External links
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