Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician.
Background
Robert Loder was born on 7 August 1823 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was Giles Loder (1786-1871) of Wilsford near Salisbury in Wiltshire, and his mother, Elizabeth Higgbotham (unknown-1848), daughter of John Higgbotham, of Saint St. Petersburg. He inherited a considerable fortune from his father and had extensive estates in Northamptonshire and Sussex as well as in Russia and Sweden.
Education
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Career
Inheritance
He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Sussex and a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire. In 1877, he served as the High Sheriff of Sussex. He held the seat until 1885.
In 1887 Loder was created a Baronet, of Whittlebury in the County of Northampton, and of High Beeches in Slaugham in the County of Sussex.
Personal life
They had ten children:
Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (1849–1920). They had two children:
Patience Marion Loder (1882–1963).
Robert Egerton Loder (1887–1917). They had one son:
Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (1914–1999).
They had two sons:
Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Baronet (born 1941).
Robert Reginald Loder (born 1943). Wilfrid Hans Loder (1851–1902). Etheldreda Mary Loder (1853–1921).
Lieutenant-Colonel
Alfred Basil Loder (1855–1905). Clare Robert Loder (1857–1857). Adela Maria Loder (1859–1915).
Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst (1861–1936).
Reginald Bernhard Loder (1864–1931). Sydney Loder (1867–1944).
Eustace Loder(1867–1914). They resided at Beach House in Worthing, West Sussex.
He died there in May 1888, at the age of sixty-four, and was buried in the churchyard of Whittlebury, where he had restored the church.
Membership
22nd United Kingdom Parliament]
At the 1880 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham.