Titled in gilt, 19th Century Tour of the World; A Visit to the World's Astronomical Observatories, with 19th Century Astronomical Observatories in gilt on spine. R. arboreum Williams named many of his hybrids after birds and butterflies: 'Blue Tit', 'Yellow Hammer', 'Red Admiral' and so on. with almost every rhododendron likely to produce good results, in the process, he produced many good hybrids, including the superb 'Loderi' group of which the seed parent was a good form of The first evergreen rhododendron species from America, He collected rhododendron seed under ninety-five seed numbers between 1904 and 1906. Camellia sinensis Of the mainly tropical Malesian (Vireya) species, from Assam in 1843. Loder is a new face on the jumps circuit, but his CV and list of contacts have enabled him to court clients others could not hope to approach. R. sutchuenense Rhododendrons Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6. R. arboreum , Wilson #4238. One mainly tropical section grows also south of the Equator in New Guinea, with a single species in Queensland, Australia. This cross first flowered in 1907. 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Small World: Northern Farm Buys Into Iconic Family. The Rhododendron Society Notes With the advent of rhododendron seed from western China, Tibet, upper Burma and Assam at the beginning of this century, a new era for rhododendrons opened. The resulting seedlings were perceived to be so good, more than 35 of them were named. In recent years tourists have been allowed into parts of western China and Bhutan and some good forms have been seen of well known species. The Ross expedition returned in September 1843. The Species of Rhododendrons It has seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. This article "Edmund Jeune Loder" is from Wikipedia. Williams at Lanarth, and my father E.J.P. Henry retired from the Chinese Customs at the end of 1900 and on his return to the United Kingdom he took up forestry. and , first described by a Japanese botanist in 1920. One of the oldest and largest colonies is at Leonardslee Gardens in Horsham, West Sussex, where wallabies from Tasmania were introduced by naturalist Sir Edmund Loder in 1889. On this expedition, he collected seed of thirty-six species of rhododendron under fifty-five seed numbers. was named after him at Kew. Named after renowned plantsman, collector, and breeder Sir Edmund Loder (1849-1920) who first developed hybrid rhododendrons from R. fortunei and R. griffithianum, the Rhododendron (Loder collection) has been somewhat neglected over the years. Magnolia campbellii He was among the last of British sportsmen to take toll of the dwindling herds of bison in North-west America, and the first European to obtain a specimen of the little desert antelope, named after him, Gazella Loderi which inhabits the Sahara contentedly without access to water. ) and 'Ambkeys' ( 2 He married, firstly, Penelope Jane Forde, daughter of Ivo Matthew Leopold Dieskan Forde and Margaret Pamela Robinson, on 23 June 1966. Of these, the most important are the , primarily from the Pontus Mountains and the Black Sea region, is also a native of Portugal and southern Spain. Cox. Loder's legacy stretches outside the Wakehurst estate. and A lovely set of meat covers which "sat under a sink gathering dust in the cellar" have now been polished up and are listed with a 2,000-3,000 estimate, as they date from 1811 and are by Paul Storr whose work for the Duke of Norfolk's silver service is in the V&A Museum in London. SIR EDMUND LODER . in 1917 listed 484 hardy hybrids raised in Europe and at that time available, of which 292 originated with the Waterer firms at Bagshot and Knaphill. R. falconeri On his premature death, his seedlings passed to his brother and sister at Littleworth near Farnham, but just before his death he sent several of his from Java and Sumatra respectively. R. longesquamatum Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 References Biography Early life Edmund Jeune Loder was born on 26 June 1941 in London, England. R. fortunei Track 4: The need for improvements on the estates which he had inherited; recalled many families who had worked on the estates over the years. , R. R. keysii Track 1: Childhood in Sussex, England. Pere Jean Marie Delavay of the same mission was initially stationed in Canton province where in 1867 he collected for the British Consul, H.F. Hance, after whom Even earlier, Luscombe at Coombe Royal near Kingsbridge in south Devon had crossed R. yakushimanum He later succeeded Dr. Wallich as Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, about the same time as Joseph Hooker succeeded his father as Director of Kew. After a course at the French School of Forestry at Nancy, he worked with H.J. Lionel de Rothschild and Henry McLaren each paid regular visits to Cornwall every spring for a number of years, as did Colonel Stephenson Clarke from Borde Hill and later J.B. Stevenson from Tower Court. x Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya Please see our. Stocker'). (after Lady Dalhousie) and R. arboreum which occurred in Thompson's Mile End Nursery. R. strigillosum [1] ) and 'Cornish Cross' ( R. chrysanthum The couple, who moved to Eyrefield 50 years ago when Edmund inherited the estate from his uncle Eustace Loder, ran a successful bloodstock breeding career on the farm. His grandfather Wilfred Loder was the creator of the incomparable woodland garden at High Beeches, the original Loder family house at. R. arboreum ), x blood-red x . Quickview. This page was last edited on 1 July 2022, at 04:18. Rhododendron augustinii Well known bloodstock breeder Sir Edmund Loder has decided to retire and is putting his beautiful property on the market through Paddy Jordan of Jordan Town & Country Estate Agents. They co-operated on loderii hybrid rhododendron, a cross between Leanardslee's Rhododendron fortunei and South Lodge's Rhododendron griffianthium. A similar disaster affected the army of Pompey in the same area in his campaign against King Mithridates of Pontus in 66 B.C. The starving soldiers consumed large quantities of honey made from the poisonous nectar of the yellow flowered Pontic Azalea, King's Harlequin was bred by Sir Edmund Loder from the outstanding family he cultivated of Marwell, Marling and Caerwent. The following year, Thomas Lobb, a Cornishman working for James Veitch of Exeter, sent [1][2][3] His father was Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet (18231888), a landowner and Conservative politician, and his mother, Maria Georgiana Busk (18261907). Their help to him is recalled in the naming of R. barbatum Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir. (the latter after Mrs. Campbell). On James Mangles' death, his mantle rather fell on Sir Edmund Loder (1849-1920), who crossed Sir Edmund Loder . Rather earlier the Loder brothers had done the same, Sir Edmund from Leonardslee and Gerald (afterwards Lord Wakehurst) from Wakehurst. R. augustinii R. crassum the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Want unlimited access to the Irish Life and Lore Oral History Archive? , and My father had begun hybridising in 1912 and kept close touch with J.C. Williams and with Professor (later Sir lssac) Bayley Balfour, the Regius Professor at Edinburgh, who advised him on a method of naming interspecific hybrids which would record their parentage. The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland ponticum x 'Lady Chamberlain'), but also using the Logan form of the Lamellen hybrid 'Damans' ( 'Oreocinn' ( His father was Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (19141999), a landowner and horticulturalist, and his mother, Marie Violet Pamela Symons-Jeune (Unknown2005). This is the area that was so thoroughly worked over later by Farrer, Kingdon Ward and Forrest. and JavaScript. His father, Sir Robert Loder, started the garden at High Beeches, near Crawley, which was later developed by Gerald's brother, Wilfred and nephew Col. Giles Loder. and sixteen rhododendron species under twenty-three seed numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Giles_Loder&oldid=1131518191, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 4 January 2023, at 13:56. He is commemorated by This he did in 1914, inviting my father to accompany him, but father by then had got married. in 1730 and (Sir Edmund Loder) Crossed 1901 AM 1968. My father had liked it so much that he made the reverse cross and planted a hedge at Lamellen. R. ponticum By this time, both the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University in Massachusetts and the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew were expressing interest in introducing some of the fine plants that the French missionaries, Augustine Henry and other travelers had found in western China. He developed the garden at his home at Leonardslee extensively.[4]. Hooker, 1849-51. b. Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. In 1680, the Bishop of London was sent a plant of the swamp honeysuckle, the azalea, During this time, he found and introduced many new rhododendron species, as well as collected seed of most of the species discovered by those which had gone before. 'Smithii' was made by William Smith, gardener to the Earl of Liverpool at Coombe Wood, Kingston on Thames, which later became the Veitch nursery that distributed the early Chinese introductions. 7 Aug 1849; bapt. But please note Sir Edmund Loder has only had 9 on this surface so the report could be meaningless due to low sample sizes! R. brookeanum R. hanceanum Subsequently she was worked for several sales consigners preparing and presenting horses. with Several nurserymen, mostly near London, began to distribute them, notably the Waterers at Knaphill and Bagshot and the Veitches at Exeter. R. caucasicum , and R. decorum from the central and eastern Alps cultivated by John Tradescant in 1650. Now Edmund and his wife, Sue, have decided to retire from a long and . At Penjerrick, Robert Were Fox's gardener, Samuel Smith, also produced a number of good hybrids, including 'Penjerrick' ( A few years older than Wilson, George Forrest started collecting in China a few years later. Rhododendron 'Loderi Pink Diamond - microprop' Pastel shell pink, and fragrant(Sir Edmund Loder) Crossed 1901. . If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. For more European racing, sales, and bloodstock news, visit RacingPost.com. In 1839, his eldest son, Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, by then aged twenty-two, sailed in H.M.5. Magor at Lamellen. Sir Edmund Giles Loder 2nd Bart of Leonardslee, Horsham Birth 7 Aug 1849 - London, England Death 14 Apr 1920 - Horsham, Sussex, England Mother Maria Georginia Busk Father Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, MP Quick access Family tree Records 11191 4213 New search Sir Edmund Giles Loder 2nd Bart of Leonardslee, Horsham family tree For them he collected in west Hupeh and west Szechuan between 1906 and 1909 and again in 1910-11, when he recorded respectively ninety-two and fifty-four seed numbers, including some new species and notably the good blue form of He was educated at Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, and appointed as a Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants (A.C.A.) He had made a fine garden on the limestone hills at Ingleborough in Yorkshire and collected in the European Alps, on one of which expeditions my father accompanied him. Over the next forty-five years, apart from the two World Wars, he made a succession of expeditions in upper Burma and western China, extending into southeast Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam. R. hirsutum In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles A series of similar cultivars (Loderi hybrids) were developed by Sir Edmund Loder early in the 1900's in England from crosses between R. fortunei R. griffithianum. Sir Edmund Loder, who lives at Eyrefield Lodge in Athgarvan with his wife Sue, is retiring from the bloodstock business after nearly 50 years at the 160-acre Kildare stud, which has been in his extended family since 1897. volume105,pages 301302 (1920)Cite this article. Meanwhile, an Irishman, Augustine Henry, was posted in 1861 as Medical Officer and Assistant with the Imperial Chinese Customs Service at Ichang in Hupei province on the Yangtse river, 1,000 miles from the sea and the inland terminus for the river steamers from Hankow. She hasn't seen . Later Joseph Hooker named three rhododendron species which he collected after these gentlemen: In c 1852 the estate was bought by William Egerton Hubbard who built the present mansion and continued to develop the gardens, selling the estate to his future son-in law Sir Edmund Loder. (named after Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak) was sent from Borneo in 1845. Millais' in 1796. R. canescens A History of Rhododendrons . in 1780 and Meanwhile, the impetus for the introduction of rhododendrons passed to the Hooker family, also of Exeter origin. Also in there are books and ledgers containing the stud pedigrees from Eyrefield, where Empress Sisi of Austria, who was also queen of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, is said to have hunted from during her visits to Ireland in 1879 and 1880. He also found This is the rhododendron which seems to have been allowed to get out of control in the Snowdonia National Park and has been causing much ill-informed concern to the "Greens" and to the media. Here he remained for the next eight years, but he spent his weekends collecting in the gorges a few miles to the north and he sent specimens to Kew. Between 1892 and 1903, Pere Paul Farges collected in northeast Szechuan, where he found cross. Leo Powell remembers a Q & A session with Sir Edmund Loder 15 years ago. The conflict of interest he experienced when a new body, Horse Racing Ireland, was being set up, as he was Chairman of the Breeders Association and also a member of the Turf Club. R. griffithianum Wilson was later invited by Professor Sargent to visit China again on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. article "Edmund Jeune Loder" is from Wikipedia, https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Edmund_Jeune_Loder&oldid=3217616, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. and five A.M.s, one from Bodnant as recently as 1981 as 'Treetops'. ) made in 1893, which was awarded an F.C.C. 'Pride of Leonardslee' is perhaps the best of this cross. The team at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens have been working tirelessly to restore these plants back to . This cross was also made at Randall's nursery at St. Augstell. Before 1848, only thirty-three species of rhododendron were in cultivation; Hooker collected, sketched and described forty-three species of which thirty-six are still recognised as distinct. Needs partially shaded site, sheltered from cold winds, and prefers woodland conditions. 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