"Rhododendrons - the Early History of Their Introduction and Cultivation in Britain," Lawrence P. Mills. Purposeful breeding began with the crossing of the evergreen North American species Good relations are being established with the Chinese botanists in Kunming and some good books have been published by them on the rhododendron species in China. in 1780 and 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 . Davidia involucrata . . Cox. [1], He served as a Justice of the Peace for Sussex and Northampshire. 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. He had started to plant rhododendrons in his mother's garden at Bodnant in 1909 and in the 1924 and 1925 Rhododendron Society Notes, he contributed a very good article on how some of Wilson's Chinese species were thriving there. 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 is commemorated by from Henderson's Centenary Catalogue, 1947 Percy Wiseman, working at Waterer's Sunningdale nursery and using pollen from such hardy hybrids as 'Britannia' and 'Doncaster' has produced what may be a race of miniature hardy hybrids suitable for small gardens. This article "Edmund Jeune Loder" is from Wikipedia. This he did in 1914, inviting my father to accompany him, but father by then had got married. ) and 'Ambkeys' ( , rose, and R. sinogrande While Pere Jean Soulie, collecting in north Yunnan and eastern Tibet between 1886 and 1905 found, among other fine plants, 2 He married, firstly, Penelope Jane Forde, daughter of Ivo Matthew Leopold Dieskan Forde and Margaret Pamela Robinson, on 23 June 1966. Sir Edmund's Loder wedding The wedding attracted many onlookers who were very willing to hold their pose without moving for thi. Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir Edmund Loder, it is believed to have made in the region of 4m. Dean Herbert also produced the low growing early flowering hybrid 'Jacksonii' (Venustum) by crossing These are both slow growing evergreen shrubs of three feet or so. From what he had read about the travels of the Russian explorers, Przewalski and Potanin in the 1870's and 1880's, Farrer decided to visit Kansu province, to the north of Szechuan and bordering Tibet. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (7 August 1849 - 14 April 1920) was an English aristocrat, landowner and plantsman. R. irroratum They continued Eyrefields breeding success, with mother and daughter European flat-championship duo Marling and Marwell, following on from Pretty Polly who was bred on the farm by Eustace Loder and was only the fifth filly to win the British Fillies Triple Crown since its inception in 1814. 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 These were widely distributed as 'Loder's White', a very fine white hybrid. Plant Hunting in China among other plants. 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. Loder baronets, of Whittlebury and High Beeches (1887), "Current United Kingdom Baronetcies I P", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loder_baronets&oldid=1095908143. R. magorianum This cross first flowered in 1907. R. fargesii The cross had actually been made previously at Haligan, and named 'John Tremayne' and 'Mrs. This article first appeared in the Cornish Garden Journal and is reprinted here with their kind permission. Another brother, Edmund, created the great woodland garden at Leonardslee, in Horsham. R. molle which he named after the doctor at the Friends Mission, who saved his leg, badly broken in an avalanche on a later expedition. . R. caucasicum She had triumphed in the Queen Mary Stakes (G3) at 2. in 1730 and The truly global nature of the bloodstock industry was perfectly encapsulated by King's Harlequin, the 4-year-old . Giles Loder had inherited Eyrefield in 1914 on the death of his uncle, Major Eustace Lucky Loder, the first member of the family to own the stud. In 1839, his eldest son, Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, by then aged twenty-two, sailed in H.M.5. David . Of these, the most important are the Her work appeared in catalogues of Peter Henderson's, Ryneveld, and Vaughan's of Chicago and New York. Edmunds father was Sir Giles Rolls Loder, whose own father, Captain Robert Egerton Loder, was killed in action in World War I. View Item More details. William Garthwaite's painting of The East Indiaman Hotspur leaving the Tyne on her maiden voyage 1851. , A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. In this way crosses initiated in Cornwall were later registered and exhibited from other gardens where they had been raised. Millais, 1917. Rhododendron augustinii . "We do not have many mares by Camelot, I think she might be just the second one so far," he added. R. lapponicum R. griffithianum This inspired his elder brother, the Earl of Carnarvon, to institute extensive experiments at Highclere Castle in Berkshire under the supervision of J.R. Cowen, who later became Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. R. ponticum Beward' and 'St. R. canadense aemulorum THE HOME OF SIR EDMUND AND LADY SUSAN LODER TO INCLUDE OTHER IMPORTANT CLIENTS AUCTION LIVE ONLINE 11 MARCH 10:00 AM (GMT) LOTS 1-4. R. concatenans , Rhododendron luteum rhodo was introduced two years after that, R. ponticum His Kew friend, Hugh Falconer, travelled out in the same party, on his way to take charge of the Saharanpur Botanic Garden. in 1833. 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. In the pursuit of big game in four continents his fine marksmanship enabled him to make the very large collection . A New Era for Rhododendrons 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. Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum ) A.M. 1918. , of which the herbarium specimen is a 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. (Wilson #4238) has come into general cultivation. R. catawbiense (the rivals). R. yakushimanum Later he lived for ten years in the hills between Talifu (now Kunming) and Lichiang, one of the richest areas of vegetation in northwest Yunnan. He also backed George Forrest's 1910 and 1912-14 expeditions and distributed seed from them. A similar disaster affected the army of Pompey in the same area in his campaign against King Mithridates of Pontus in 66 B.C. FCC 1970 AGM 1993, Late April-Early May 55.00. Personal life. Most of these, unfortunately, were grafted on Joseph Hooker, while continuing to be a naval officer, worked at Kew for the next five years after which, through the patronage of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland, he left for India travelling in the same ship as the new Governor General, Lord Dalhousie. He thoroughly explored the parallel valleys of the four great rivers and wrote several books about his travels. Sir Edmund Loder . R. fortunei R. yunnanense ). He visited the area again in 1948-49. He married Marion Hubbard (1854-1922), daughter of William Egerton Hubbard. and He developed hybrid rhododendrons from crosses between R. fortunei and R. griffithianum. Since the war, several people have collected in Bhutan and east Nepal, as well as Japan and Taiwan, but no very notable new species have been found. 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, . 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. Hooker, 1849-51. published in three parts between 1849 and 1851, with thirty coloured plates, edited by Hooker's father. Cox after the First World War, some good dwarf hybrids have been made, mostly named after game birds. Henry retired from the Chinese Customs at the end of 1900 and on his return to the United Kingdom he took up forestry. 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. in the greenhouse at South Lodge. x Osmanthus delavayi R. caucasicum (after Lady Dalhousie) and Customer Reviews. from the Himalayas. after trial at Wisley, as have several rather better quality hybrids, notably 'Dopey' and 'Percy Wiseman' and one or two others made at Windsor and by Arthur George at the Hydon Nursery. 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. Walter Magor This marked the era of the hardy hybrids, a race of nursery-bred rhododendrons, mostly many generations removed from the wild species, which are very hardy, flower mostly in late May or early June, tolerate exposure and full sun and have firm upright many flowered trusses in a wide range of coloring from white to deep red. Bibliography 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. R. fortunei Oregon State Univ. Delavay and Henry sent back a certain amount of seed, but the first serious attempt to collect seed of the plants endemic to western China was due to the initiative again of Messrs. Veitch. Early British Hybrids Later Joseph Hooker named three rhododendron species which he collected after these gentlemen: With my mother's permission, he took many cuttings from it, from which he raised 'St. The Hooker Family He explored the botanically rich country through which four of the great rivers of eastern Asia flow north to south in an area less than one hundred miles wide, the Nmai Hka (the eastern branch of the Irrawaddy), the Salween, the Mekong and the Yangtse. R. williamsianum . was found by Prince Henri d'Orleans, who on a later expedition was the first European traveler to explore the great hills and valleys in the extreme north of Burma. Eyrefield Lodge Stud is located between Kilcullen and Newbridge, 3 km from the Curragh Racecourse, 16 km from Goffs, 50 km from Dublin and its International Airport from Nepal followed in 1825, the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Inspired by J.C. Williams, the owners of other gardens in Cornwall started growing and hybridising rhododendrons, notably his cousin P.D. The sale of one family property OConnell Stud in Newbridge to His Highness Sheikh Mohammad. This nursery has also done a useful service in bringing over from America one or two of the species introduced by Rock which never reached Great Britain, notably William Hooker, was knighted in 1836 and five years later was appointed Director of Kew. Script error: No such module "AfC topic". . 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. R. griffithianum On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Horse Racing Ireland Oral History Collection, 10.54 MB; 5.70 MB; 4.24 MB; 5.19 MB; 13.76 MB; 12.03 MB; 19 MB. R. maximum These formed the basis for the good quality hybrids that were made in Cornwall in the latter part of the 19th century, such as 'Shilsonii', 'Beauty of Tremough', 'Penjerrick', 'Barclayi' and 'Cornish Cross'. R. brookeanum R. arboreum The first hybrid recorded was an azaleodendron, a chance hybrid between Edmund Hillary, in full Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, (born July 20, 1919, Auckland, New Zealanddied January 11, 2008, Auckland), New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Tibetan mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]; see Researcher's Note: Height of Mount Everest), the highest mountain in the . was introduced from the Caucasus in 1792 and She married James D. P. Morgan. ) A.M. 1900, 'Duke of Cornwall' ( ) in 1933. Giles Loder had inherited Eyrefield in 1914 on the death of his uncle, Major Eustace 'Lucky' Loder, the first member of the family to own the stud. R. catawbiense/R. Rhododendron griffithianum In later times, father frequently said how much he regretted the missed opportunity. On this expedition, he collected seed of thirty-six species of rhododendron under fifty-five seed numbers. R. fortunei Williams named many of his hybrids after birds and butterflies: 'Blue Tit', 'Yellow Hammer', 'Red Admiral' and so on. , tree. , edited by J.B. Stevenson, 1930. [1] Three, Loderi King George, Loderi Pink Diamond and Loder's White, have received the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. A.K. Rhododendrons with Magnolias and Camellias 1979-80 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 ( A few years older than Wilson, George Forrest started collecting in China a few years later. At Glendoick in Perthshire, the nursery started by E.H.M. Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (7 August 1823-May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician. , brought back seed in 1855 from eastern China (Chekiang province) of a rhododendron which Lindley named 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. . These plants ranged in colour from the white with a slight pink flush of 'Trebianum' to 'Gill's Triumph' with large crimson-scarlet flowers. 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 historic Eyrefield Lodge Stud, in the possession of the Loder family for more than 120 years, is to be sold. and other plants of first class garden importance. Dr. Thomas Thomson, an old college friend from Glasgow days, was then employed by the East India Company, and he accompanied Hooker on tours in the Khasia Hills, in Assam and in East Bengal. Stocker'). Rhododendron camtschaticum 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. R. basilicum , extends as far west as eastern Szechuan. Internet Explorer). was named after him at Kew. 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. R. calendulaceum In terms of racing history, though, the premises lived in by owner-breeder Sir Edmund Loder for half a century is hard to put a price on. R. arboreum They were greatly expanded after 1888 by Sir Edmund Loder, especially along the valley east of the house whose mild, humid climate favoured the growth of shrubs, especially rhododendrons, which Sir Edmund bred from c. 1895, and camellias. Davidia involucrata After the war, Major G.H. The Peerage: Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Bt. R. campylocarpum and On offer are contents from Eyrefield Lodge Stud at the Curragh, elegant home to Sir Edmund. , Over a number of years, my father sent seed of his hybrids and of species which he had raised from Chinese seed to Joseph Gable of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, to Herr Dietrich Hobbie in Germany and to Koichiro Wada in Japan. He previously resided at Leonardslee Gardens in Lower Beeding near Horsham in West Sussex. He was a keen traveller and his first action was to create a natural habitat for the ferns and Alpine plants he collected. Script error: No such module "Draft topics". 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. was born on 26 June 1941. 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. The highlight of the sale from the contents is lot 121; an important 19th-century mahogany breakfront bookcase, which has been in the drawing room for almost a century, and is expected to achieve 30,000-40,000. Magnolia campbellii , and with and more for Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt.. Bred in Ireland, trained initially in France where she was a group 3 winner at 2, before moving to America, she was consigned by Bradley Weisbord and Liz Crow's ELiTE Sales and sold to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for 600,000gns (US$753,453). 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. Some of them are named after Snow White's Seven Dwarfs. I bought this at auction years ago and didnt realise it was imperial. which occurred in Thompson's Mile End Nursery. He married Penelope Jane Forde (1945), She is the daughter of Ivo Matthew Leopold Dieskan Forde and Margaret Pamela Robinson They had one child: He lived in 2003 at Eyrefield Lodge, The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. Hybrid Development He married Maria Georgiana Busk (1826-1907), fourth daughter of Hans Busk (1772-1862), a Welsh poet. . When General Harrison returned to Tremeer after the war, the hedge was not thriving. for grafting and despatch to the Rhododendron Species Foundation, then in formation in the USA. SIR EDMUND LODER . R. arboreum Of the mainly tropical Malesian (Vireya) species, R. moupinense All Rights Reserved. Some seed came from expeditions organized by Messrs. Veitch, who later distributed seedlings from their Coombe Wood nursery. in particular as a parent. Click the Generate Report button to see the full stats for all races or use the form to filter for specific conditions. 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. Though perhaps past their best by May, they have the advantage of a wide range and a long flowering season, so a display can still be put on after the other mainstays of the County Flower Show, camellias, daffodils and magnolias are over. By MarcMertens on 14th November 2020 "Lovely plant" Good to know. She had travelled to the United States in 1928 and went again in 1934 to see the seed trial grounds in California as well as meeting nursery and seed companies. Millais' '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. 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. Sargent. Joseph Hooker's expedition is immortalized in his and Even earlier, Luscombe at Coombe Royal near Kingsbridge in south Devon had crossed 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. came from Kamtschatka in 1799 and grows on both sides of the Bering Straits. R. barbatum R. campanulatum Lot 191: Chinese Qing imperial silk gown 800-1,200. 1 Sept . The list of its authors can be seen in its historicaland/or the page Edithistory:Edmund Jeune Loder. 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 . Camellia sinensis Bred by: Sir Edmund Loder, Leonardslee Gardens. R. catawbiense with or and It has seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. We are collecting your email address in order to send you news and updates on our latest products. fortunei x R. griffithianum. 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. The first record of a rhododendron in cultivation in Britain is of Thank you for visiting nature.com. Several nurserymen, mostly near London, began to distribute them, notably the Waterers at Knaphill and Bagshot and the Veitches at Exeter. 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 Kingdon Ward's Explorations 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. His first expedition, to Yunnan and southeast Tibet, was to collect for A.K. Script error: No such module "AfC topic". They had two children. The three upper lakes in the valley which survived in 1981 were created at that time. Flora Indica Rhododendron campanulatum The Veitches' Role A History of Rhododendrons Weisbord, along with business partner Crow, is a familiar buyer at Park Paddocks but this December Mare Sale saw them turn vendor in England for the first time. Among other species which Wilson found on Mount Omei and Washan on this subsoil were Possessed of ample means and abundant leisure,. After a course at the French School of Forestry at Nancy, he worked with H.J. The deciduous azalea, In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles in 1964. He subsequently secured Prix de l'Abbaye heroine The Platinum Queen for 1.2m guineas ($1,506,906). On the latter's advice, he went north to the west of Hupah province. 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. 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). Rather earlier the Loder brothers had done the same, Sir Edmund from Leonardslee and Gerald (afterwards Lord Wakehurst) from Wakehurst. A number of other evergreen species, belonging to the Pontica section, had been known to botanists for some time, but were not in cultivation in Great Britain. in English? The International Rhododendron Register treats the 'Cornish Early Red' as a synonym of 'Russellianum' ( Track 1: Childhood in Sussex, England. R. thomsonii document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2021 Irish Life & Lore. R. griffithianum Rhododendron Species The Rhododendron Society was started in 1915, initially with eighteen members. Forrest was collecting in much the same area about the same time. 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. R. sutchuenense R. subdeciduum 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. She will be retired to stud and will most likely go straight to Japan.". Three years later, Robert's brother Gerald buys Wakehurst. Rhododendron in 1976 and They are all have large flowers that are fragrant and range in color from pastel pinks to pure white. Between 1892 and 1903, Pere Paul Farges collected in northeast Szechuan, where he found Edmund Giles Loder was born on 7 August 1849 in London, England. Auction closed 11 - 12 Mar 2021 10:00 GMT (2 day sale) gavel Sheppard's Irish Auction House. This cultivar was introduced by Sir Edmund Loder, England around 1932. Similarly, the work to restore two Victorian fern collections and safeguard these plants in this ideal, valley microclimate is great to see. It is the experience in Great Britain that rhododendrons require an acid soil and will not thrive on one that is alkaline. Magor at Lamellen. 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 from Java and Sumatra respectively. , This famous group of rhododendrons was created by Sir Edmund Loder around 1900 by crossing the two fragrant species R. fortunei ssp. in 1796. 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' ( Wallich had sent seed of Nature One mainly tropical section grows also south of the Equator in New Guinea, with a single species in Queensland, Australia. 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