Lives of the First World War

John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst KG KCMG (5 February 1895 – 30 October 1970) was a British Colonial administrator and politician. He was commissioned into the 4th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, and later joined the Intelligence Corps, seeing service throughout the war in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. For his services, he was Mentioned in Dispatches, and left the British Army in 1919 with the rank of Captain. After serving in the army, the Foreign Office, and as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons, Wakehurst was appointed as the last British Governor of New South Wales, which he held from 1937-46. Upon returning to Britain he was appointed Governor of Northern Ireland from 1952-64. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1962 and died in 1970