Social Victorians/People/Loder

Also Known As

• Family name: Loder
• Baron Wakehurst
  • Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst (20 June 1934 – 30 April 1936)
• Gerald Loder, M.P. (1889–1905)

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Brighton, 1889–1905
• Wakehurst Place, Sussex, 1903–

Family

• Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst (25 October 1861 – 30 April 1936)
• Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk Loder (12 April 1869 – 15 December 1958)

1. John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst (5 February 1895 – 30 October 1970)
2. Hon. Dorothy Cicely Sybil Loder (1896–1986)
3. Victoria Helen Loder (1899 – November 1979)
4. Hon. Diana Evelyn Loder (1899–1985)
5. Mary Irene Loder (1 May 1902 – 7 January 1970)

Organizations

• Eton
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• Conservative
• House of Commons

Timeline

1890 October 25, Gerald Loder and Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk married at St. George Hanover Square, London.

1897 July 2, Gerald Loder attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Gerald Loder (at 100)

• dressed as a "Gentleman of the Court of Louis XVI., in black coat, trimmed gold, white brocaded vest, and breeches."
• was "a courtier of Louis XVI."
• "(gentleman of the Court of Louis XVI.), black coat with gold; white brocaded vest and breeches."

Mrs. Louise Loder is not listed among the attendees at the ball.

Questions and Notes

1. Mrs. Louise Loder is not listed among the attendees at the ball; was she there and just not reported on? No child was born that year, but she was bearing children during this time.
2. The Loder Cup, a conservation award, is named for Gerald Loder.