Baron Wakehurst

Baron Wakehurst, of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 29 June 1934 for the Conservative politician Gerald Loder, fifth son of Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet (see Loder Baronets for earlier history of the family). He had previously represented Brighton in the House of Commons and was the creator of Wakehurst Place Gardens in Ardingly, West Sussex. 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. As of 2010 the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1970.

John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst.

Barons Wakehurst (1934)

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

Coat of arms of Baron Wakehurst
Crest
A Stag's Head Caboshed transfixed by an Arrow bendwise point downwards all proper between two Escallops Or
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th grandquarters: Azure on a Fess between in chief a Portcullis chained and in base a Martlet Or three Stags' Heads caboshed proper (Loder); 2nd grandquarter: the Royal Arms of King Charles II, viz. quarterly 1st and 4th. France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland, and overall a Baton Sinister Gules charged with three Roses Argent barbed and seeded proper (Beauclerk); 3rd grandquarter: per quarter Gules and Or in the first quarter a Mullet Argent (de Vere)
Supporters
Dexter: a Russian Brown Bear proper; Sinister: a Greyhound Argent gorged with a Collar checky of the last and Azure
Motto
Murus Aeneus Conscientia Sana (A sound conscience is a wall of brass) [2]

See also

Notes
  1. "No. 34066". The London Gazette. 3 July 1934. p. 4222.
  2. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/wakehurst1934.htm

References
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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