Background
Giles Rolls Loder was born on 10 November 1914 in London, England. His father was Robert Egerton Loder (1887–1917) and his mother, Muriel Rolls Hoare (1879–1955).
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Giles Rolls Loder was born on 10 November 1914 in London, England. His father was Robert Egerton Loder (1887–1917) and his mother, Muriel Rolls Hoare (1879–1955).
He graduated from Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, in 1936, and from Trinity College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, in 1944.
Public service
During World World War II, he served in the Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, and later worked with the Vosper & Company for the British Navy. He later served as High Sheriff of Sussex in 1948 and Justice of the Peace in 1949. He also served as Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex in 1977.
Horticulture
He served as Vice-President of The Royal Horticultural Society.
At his family estate of Leonardslee, he planted hundresds of varieties of rhododendrons, magnolias, and camellias, and built two greenhouses. Yachting
He took part in the Cowes Week, one of the longest-running regular regattas in the world, where he sometimes skippered on the Kaylena, a well-known 12-metre yacht.
Personal life
They had two sons:
Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Baronet (born 1941). They had a daughter:
Gillian Marie Loder (born 1968).
They had two children:
Mathew Morgan (born 1995).
Olivia Morgan (born 1996). Robert Reginald Loder (born 1943). They had four children:
Christopher Giles Loder (born 1968).
Catherine Marie Violet Loder (born 1970).
Peter Thomas Loder (born 1972). Mary Charlotte Loder (born 1972).
They resided at Ockenden Manor, a Grade II*-listed house in Cuckfield, West Sussex. He died on 24 February 1999.
An avid yachtsman, he was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.