Plant Hunting in China Subscribe FREE Today! Sir Edmund Loder, (1849-1920), though known primarily as a naturalist, was a rare 19th-century example of a Renaissance man, with interests and knowledge ranging from the field of zoology to the literary stylings of Lord Byron and William Shakespeare. [5] They also resided at Leonardslee in Lower Beeding near Horsham in West Sussex. What are synonyms for Sir Edmund? Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (7 August 1823May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician. R. molle The following year, Thomas Lobb, a Cornishman working for James Veitch of Exeter, sent 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 https://doi.org/10.1038/105301a0. McLaren, son of the First Lord Aberconway was elected to the Society in 1923. R. basilicum He was largely responsible for the development of the Botanical Garden there. At Glendoick in Perthshire, the nursery started by E.H.M. ) from Lamellen were the first to be recorded this way. Burke, Bernard, Sir. In the spring of 1964, we had a visit from Dr. Milton Walker and at his request sent cuttings to the Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, notably of He trained native collectors, mostly Mosso tribesmen from a village in the Lichiang range in northwest Yunnan, who covered a wide area and found and collected seed of many new species. R. arboreum x The French missionaries for the most part did not collect seed, but sent plants to Paris to the Ecole de Botanique and herbarium specimens to the Museum of Natural History, where many of them were described and named by Adrien Franchet. From 1889 until he died in 1920, Sir Edmund greatly expanded the gardens and created a large collection of rare wild animals including unusual species of . Rhododendron ciliicalyx Rhododendron aucklandii R. ponticum It's not only iconic DNA which Katsumi Yoshida has bought into; on the track, King's Harlequin carried the iconic blue and green silks that will forever be associated with Robert Sangster and Vincent O'Brien's outstanding champions that shaped the global racing and breeding industries. R. yunnanense From Calcutta, Joseph Hooker travelled north to Sikkim and spent two years there exploring in the hills, based in Darjeeling where his host was Brian Hodgson, the British Resident in Nepal. R. arboreum Walter Magor Walter Magor is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and serves on the editorial board of the RHS Rhododendron Group. She will be retired to stud and will most likely go straight to Japan.". , After six months spent at Veitch's Coombe Wood Nursery, Wilson sailed for China in April 1899, by way of the United States. There is an original plant of this at Tregothnan, but the massive 'Cornish Early Red' of Cornish gardens which it resembles, seems to be mainly 'Smithii' ( "It was so bad that I couldn't view the estate properly, but I had a tingly feeling about this beautiful place." . They co-operated on loderii hybrid rhododendron, a cross between Leanardslee's Rhododendron fortunei and South Lodge's Rhododendron griffianthium. Over the next twenty years, General Harrison did a lot of hybridising at Tremeer, concentrating on producing in particular blue dwarfs and yellows, mainly of the 'Comely' grex ( Hooker, 1849-51. Rhododendron camtschaticum room Durrow, Co. Laois. [1][2][3] His father was Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet (18231888), a landowner and Conservative politician, and his mother, Maria Georgiana Busk (18261907). Sargent. In 1899 therefore, James Veitch sent out Ernest Henry Wilson, a Kew student recommended by Sir William Thistleton-Dyer, who had succeeded his father-in-law, Sir Joseph Hooker as Director. 'Oreocinn' ( The daughter of Habitat produced a champion in Marling, the Lomond filly who was European champion 2- and 3-year-old filly a decade after her dam retired to stud. The biography contains a photograph of Loder, which is . Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Bibliography 3 References Biography [ edit] Early life [ edit] Edmund Giles Loder was born on 7 August 1849 in London, England. London : Harrison 1879. and ), made at Russell's nursery at Battersea, but this form seems to be less common in Cornwall. The European and North American species began to be planted to a limited extent in British gardens early in the 19th century. Another brother, Edmund, created the great woodland garden at Leonardslee, in Horsham. Discussed his involvement in the business of horse breeding, the bloodlines he inherited, and the advice he received on the matter from his cousin, Peter Powell. He was partly instrumental also in the formation of the Forestry Commission and in 1913 he was appointed Professor of Forestry at the College of Science in Dublin where he remained until 1926. R. jasminiflorum He made some good hybrids crossing R. fargesii Oversized volume, 13 x 17 in. He frequently contributes articles to the RHS Rhododendron Group's annual bulletin and other publications. , Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir Edmund Loder, it is believed to have made in the region of 4m. R. arboreum , and Rhododendron campanulatum Bulley of Bees Ltd. engaged him in 1911 to undertake an expedition in northwest Yunnan. Track 1: Childhood in Sussex, England. and ft., is in very good condition. with the European , 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. Inspired by J.C. Williams, the owners of other gardens in Cornwall started growing and hybridising rhododendrons, notably his cousin P.D. x and Genealogy profile for Sir Edmund Loder Sir Edmund Loder (deceased) - Genealogy Genealogy for Sir Edmund Loder (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (7 August 1823-May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician. in 1803. He married Marion Hubbard (1854-1922), daughter of William Egerton Hubbard. In February, the inevitable announcement came that Pivotal (GB) was to be pensioned at Cheveley Park Stud at the age of 28. The first evergreen rhododendron species from America, R. augustinii Cox, 1945. , edited by J.B. Stevenson, 1930. Most of these, unfortunately, were grafted on Besides Eyrefield itself, one of the pieces that Loder will miss and found hard to let go, is lot 412, a sculpture by Joseph Gott (1785-1860) of a fox and her cub (1,500-2,500). Between 1934 and 1938, and again in1946-9, Ludlow and Sherriff collected in Bhutan and southeast Tibet. J.C. Williams of Caerhays Castle, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and grandfather of the present owner, F. Julian Williams, distributed seed from Wilson's expeditions when he started to work for the Arnold Arboretum. 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. The name "rhododendron" derives from the Greek Download Today's Edition 'Thompson's Hybrid'. [1], He served as a Justice of the Peace for Sussex and Northampshire. From Canada came the azalea from Nepal followed in 1825, In 1920, notes began to appear from Major Lionel de Rothschild M.P., who had bought Exbury in 1918 and had been elected to the Rhododendron Society two years later. x 'Dr. in 1730 and PubMedGoogle Scholar, MAXWELL, H. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart. The Species of Rhododendrons [1], Loder was active as a plant collector, breeder and grower. R. campylocarpum For more European racing, sales, and bloodstock news, visit RacingPost.com. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (7 August 1849 - 14 April 1920) was an English aristocrat, landowner and plantsman. was born on 26 June 1941. R. fortunei R. griffithianum This cross was also made at Randall's nursery at St. Augstell. R. fortunei King's Harlequin sold to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for 600,000gns. You can also search for this author in The filly will have more air miles to gather now as she heads east, to a farm which has revolutionized Japanese racing and breeding over the past three decades. . (after Lady Dalhousie) and The rampant . 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. Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir. with alliance. . As you would expect, the sale of over 800 lots features quite a bit of equestrian heritage, including hunting crops and art by Louis Lejeune, Emma McDermott and Emil Adam whose Ambush II of Newmarket Racecourse with jockey Algernon Anthony is listed at 4,000-6,000. . R. sutchuenense Bibliography , fastigiatum x was introduced two years after that, The "Hardy Hybrids" I knew from the legs that it could be important, and then I saw a similar model featured in A History of English Furniture: the Age of Walnut, so it too was a lovely find, she says. 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. Full Report for Sir Edmund Loder. , , Another discovery was Wilson #1539, Please see our. A seven-bedroom house dating back to 1760 and 160 acres of limestone land on the Curragh ought to be attraction enough, not to mention cottages, stables and spectacular gardens replete with roses and topiary. and sixteen rhododendron species under twenty-three seed numbers. Other visitors to Cornwall, not quite so frequent, were Sir Frederick Moore and Armytage Moore and Lord Headfort from Ireland and Lord Stair from Scotland. x It is the experience in Great Britain that rhododendrons require an acid soil and will not thrive on one that is alkaline. Marling, also bred by Loder at his former farm of Eyrefield Lodge Stud, emulated her dam with victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes but stayed further than Marwell at 3, winning the Goffs Irish One ThousandGuineas (G1), Sussex Stakes (G1) and Coronation Stakes (G1). . In the same area in 1891, R. ponticum When it grew too large for the greenhouse, branches were cut off, from which Sir Edmund Loder, across the road at Leonardslee, made numerous grafts. as a seed parent, though it is doubtful whether any are as good as the best form of "She's a lovely filly and she looked great," remarked Shingo Hashimoto of Northern Farm. R. moulmainense from the central and eastern Alps cultivated by John Tradescant in 1650. Seed from his collections was grown on at Kew and seedlings were sent to friends in the west of Scotland, Wales and southwest England to try out, notably to the Shilson family at Tremough near Penryn, to Robert Were Fox at Penjerrick and to Sir Charles Lemon at Carclew. The first introduction from India was , was introduced from China in 1823. J.C. Williams had made the dwarf hybrid 'Blue Tit' ( This accounts for the clumps of Sir Edmund Loder . R. falconeri Track 3: The Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes sponsorship of the Irish Derby (from 1962), and subsequently sponsorship from Budweiser, both of which had a major effect on Irish horseracing. which occurred in Thompson's Mile End Nursery. But no rhododendrons had been reported from further west than this until the journeys of Pere Armand David, a very fine naturalist of the Missions Etrangeres, between 1869 and 1874. R. canadense R. griffithianum Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum Rhododendron . 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 worked as a Bloodstock Breeder in Ireland and the USA, In Ireland he was chairman of the Breeders Assosciation, and a member of the Turf Club. One of the earliest hybridisers was the Reverend William Herbert, Rector of Spofforth in Yorkshire and later Dean of Manchester, who produced a number of azaleodendrons as well as evergreen hybrids. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. This spacious room features the multiple designs of the GP J Baker design house family - Kravet, Lee Jofa, Baker Lifestyle, Mulberry, Threads and Brunschwig and Fils anchored by the dramatic "Chifu Blush" wallpaper, a stunning interpretation of an 18th century Qing dynasty dragon robe. Introductions from North America were only a little later in time. Two interesting gowns feature: a velvet kaftan, which Susan Loder inherited from an aunt (lot 190, 300-500), and a Chinese silk gown (lot 191, 800-1,200). Kingdon Ward's Explorations Up to now, the valuable exploration that was being done in western China was carried out by people who were not primarily botanists, and had other professions, plant hunting being a leisure hobby. by a missionary in Virginia. Forrest entered the area through upper Burma, travelling by Bhamo to Tengyueh and Myitkyina. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Bt. R. insigne A New Era for Rhododendrons Bean, 1976. 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. R. lapponicum R. auriculatum The plants were named the Loderi hybrids and group in his honour. Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt. Nature 105, 301302 (1920). in particular as a parent. R. arboreum 1 He is the son of Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Bt. , extends as far west as eastern Szechuan. from Nepal in 1825. Volume includes original boards, restored with attractive new leather spine. A.K. , Between 1892 and 1903, Pere Paul Farges collected in northeast Szechuan, where he found Next came Frank Kingdon Ward, son of the professor of Botany at Cambridge, and with a Cambridge degree in Natural Science. On this expedition, he collected seed of thirty-six species of rhododendron under fifty-five seed numbers. R. caucasicum Home to Sir Edmund and Lady Sue Loder, this world-renowned farm stands on 160 acres and the main residence, extending to more than 5,000 sq. The truly global nature of the bloodstock industry was perfectly encapsulated by King's Harlequin, the 4-year-old Camelot filly who made the early running during the second of the Sceptre Sessions. , Northern Farm has bought into an iconic pedigree with Caerwent, the GPA National Stakes (G1) winner, also foaled by Marwell. A similar disaster affected the army of Pompey in the same area in his campaign against King Mithridates of Pontus in 66 B.C. [1], 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. , Volume III, 8th edition, W.J. R. hirsutum R. arboreum ), as well as 'Werei' of the same parentage as Gill's 'Duke of Cornwall'. She transferred to Clement's brother Christophe in Kentucky ahead of the 2022 season but failed to add stateside success to her French glories. The first hybrid recorded was an azaleodendron, a chance hybrid between Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Baronet (26 June 1941) was an English aristocrat, landowner and Irish Bloodstock Breeder. This was between 1899 and 1902. 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. (named after Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak) was sent from Borneo in 1845. aemulorum Purposeful breeding began with the crossing of the evergreen North American species R. ponticum On James Mangles' death, his mantle rather fell on Sir Edmund Loder (1849-1920), who crossed Lot 81: Late 17th-century walnut side table 800-1,200. Thomson collaborated with Joseph Hooker in the production of a Their help to him is recalled in the naming of Early British Hybrids That is the real test of downsizing; saying goodbye to pieces you love but dont have the space for. YREFIELD LODGE THE HOME OF SIR EDMUND AND LADY SUSAN. and Flora Indica . How do we create a person's profile? He's the fourth generation from Pretty Polly and when we had Perfect . 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. , ) made in 1893, which was awarded an F.C.C. Rhododendrons 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 The International Rhododendron Register treats the 'Cornish Early Red' as a synonym of 'Russellianum' ( The Loder Baronetcy, of Whittlebury in the County of Northampton, and of High Beeches in Slaugham in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1887 for Robert Loder, who had previously represented New Shoreham in the House of Commons as a Conservative . Joseph Hooker's expedition is immortalized in his Juniperus squamata 'Loderi' is a broad, upright selection of Ping's juniper that can grow to mature heights of 6 to 10 feet (2 - 3 m) tall, . ) A.M. 1907 and 'Ernest Gill' ( Now Edmund and his wife, Sue, have decided to retire from a long and . R. strigillosum Rhododendron augustinii Origin: British. The team at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens have been working tirelessly to restore these plants back to . 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'Sir Charles Lemon' is usually regarded as a natural hybrid of The sale represented a massive return on the 30,000 ($32,698) which she brought as a yearling when purchased by Tina Rau at the Goffs Orby Sale. and JavaScript. 2 He married, firstly, Penelope Jane Forde, daughter of Ivo Matthew Leopold Dieskan Forde and Margaret Pamela Robinson, on 23 June 1966. The French Missionaries and the large leaved cross. R. degronianum Antonyms for Sir Edmund. It was here that he found Meconopsis betonicifolia Bred by: Sir Edmund Loder, Leonardslee Gardens. Simon John Loder was born in London on April 4 1932. Under the influence of her uncle Sir Edmund Loder - breeder of the great European champions Marwell and Marling, Harriet decided to move further more towards thoroughbred fields and worked at her uncle's Eyrefield Lodge Stud in Ireland. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Sir Edmund Giles Loder 2nd Bart of Leonardslee, Horsham (1849 - 1920) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days. Apart from General Harrison, a number of fine hybrids have been made in the last twenty years at Windsor, Bodnant and Exbury. Rhododendron x 'Loderi Venus' has the most sumptuous of coloring in the Loderi group. , brought back seed in 1855 from eastern China (Chekiang province) of a rhododendron which Lindley named She married James D. P. Morgan. R. souliei Nature , Cocculus Because of the war, few of Farrer's plants from this expedition have survived in cultivation. It was introduced into Great Britain in 1934 when two plants were sent by Koichiro Wada to Exbury, who passed one on to Wisley. was named after him at the Arnold Arboretum. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. ), This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. They have received one F.C.C. Rhododendron campbelliae Robert Loder was born on 7 Aug 1823, the son of Giles Loder, Esq., of Wilsford, Salisbury, and Elizabeth Higgbotham, daughter of John Higgbotham, Esq. R. yakushimanum R. griffithianum x R. decorum In the pursuit of big game in four continents his fine marksmanship enabled him to make the very large collection of horned and other trophies now preserved at Leonardslee. 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. and also the army of Alexander the Great of Macedonia on his way to India in 327 B.C., although this was not in the same area and was probably due to He is commemorated by R. ponticum By MarcMertens on 14th November 2020 "Lovely plant" Good to know. , Lepidotes, Volume I, H.H Davidian, 1982. He thoroughly explored the parallel valleys of the four great rivers and wrote several books about his travels. In this way Cornish rhododendron hybrids have spread all over the British Isles. When the couple inherited the estate, the interiors were laden with furniture, silver and art, some of which was hidden away. and a In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles [1] Three, Loderi King George, Loderi Pink Diamond and Loder's White, have received the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Other early introductions of deciduous azaleas were R. strigillosum Wilson's Collections 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. The allied Alpenrose, File:Owner Sir Edmund Loder.svg - Wikimedia Commons File:Owner Sir Edmund Loder.svg From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository File File history File usage on Commons File usage on other wikis Metadata Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 384 599 pixels. R. barbatum South Lodge remains notable for its rhododendrons. itself. R. campanulatum FCC 1970 AGM 1993, Late April-Early May 55.00. (now known as At Penjerrick, Robert Were Fox's gardener, Samuel Smith, also produced a number of good hybrids, including 'Penjerrick' ( Another friend was Dr. Archibald Campbell, the Superintendent of Darjeeling and Political Agent, Sikkim. Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6. Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. A slightly younger man was Reginald Farrer, author of 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. 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. in 1739. , Wilson #4238. The cultivation of the choicer types of rhododendrons really dates from Joseph Hooker's travels in Sikkim, when seedlings raised at Kew were sent for trial to some favoured gardens. It is apparently calcareous limestone which does not suit them. 'Pride of Leonardslee' is perhaps the best of this cross. 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. R. yakushimanum Rhododendron luteum Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one. Rather earlier introductions had been made by Loddiges at Hackney, Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, Thompson at Mile End, Russell at Battersea and Standish and Noble at Sunningdale. This he did in 1914, inviting my father to accompany him, but father by then had got married. They had two children. Rhododendron discolor His grandfather Wilfred Loder was the creator of the incomparable woodland garden at High Beeches, the original Loder family house at. Over the years, the Veitches were instrumental in sending collectors all over the world and introducing a great many valuable plants into cultivation in Britain, but no more rhododendrons until they sent E.H. Wilson to China in 1899. She had triumphed in the Queen Mary Stakes (G3) at 2. 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