Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet DL

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, JP

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 (7 August 1823 - 27 May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative

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 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

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. He inherited from his father a considerable fortune and had extensive estates in Northamptonshire

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 and Sussex

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 as well as in Russia

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 and Sweden

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. He was a Justice of the Peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Sussex and a JP for Northamptonshire. In 1877 he was High Sheriff of Sussex

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At the 1880 general election

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 Loder was elected Member of Parliament

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 for New Shoreham

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. 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.

Loder married Maria Georgiana Busk, fourth daughter of Hans Busk

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. Their fourth son Gerald was ennobled as Baron Wakehurst

Baron Wakehurst

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. Loder died at Beech House, Worthing

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, in May 1888, aged 64. His eldest son Edmund succeeded in the baronetcy.

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