1-page handwritten letter, sent from 13 Grosvenor Crescent, London.
Dated 1898.
Probably written to the Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
"Please send me a ticket for the Abbey on Saturday for Lady Louise Loder. Yrs truly Gerald Loder"
Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst (1861 – 1936) British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician. Conservative Member of Parliament for Brighton.
A keen gardener, Loder purchased the Wakehurst Place estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens, which today cover some two square kilometres (500 acres) and are owned by the National Trust. President of the Royal Arboricultural Society and President of the Royal Horticultural Society. Chairman of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and Chairman of the Southern Railway.
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