Baron Wakehurst, of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1934 for the Conservative

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 politician Gerald Loder, fifth son of Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet DL, JP was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician.Loder was the son of Giles Loder, of Wilsford Salisbury, and his wife Elizabeth Higgbotham, daughter of John Higgbotham, of St Petersburg. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge...

 (see Loder Baronets

Loder Baronets

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...

 for earlier history of the family). He had previously represented Brighton

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 in the House of Commons

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 and was the creator of Wakehurst Place Gardens in Ardingly

Ardingly

Ardingly is a village and civil parish in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty about north of Haywards Heath in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The village is about south of London, south-south-west of East Grinstead, southeast of Crawley, north of Brighton and ...

, West Sussex

West Sussex

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. His only son, the second Baron, was also a Conservative politician and served as Governor of New South Wales and later as Governor of Northern Ireland

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. the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1970. As a descendant of Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, he is also in remainder to this title.

Barons Wakehurst (1934)

• Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst (1861–1936)
• John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst (1895–1970)
• John Christopher Loder, 3rd Baron Wakehurst (b. 1925)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Timothy Walter Loder (b. 1958)