John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst, was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. 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 to 1946. Upon returning to Britain he was appointed Governor of Northern Ireland from 1952 to 1964. He was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1962 and died in 1970.
John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
Lord Wakehurst is received in NSW by Premier Bertram Stevens (left) in 1937
Wakehurst with Bob Heffron, Minister for National Emergency Services, in 1941.
Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)
The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Breast star of a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John
Priory of St John at Clerkenwell, London in 1661, by Wenceslaus Hollar
St John's Gate, London, in 1880
King George V, Emperor of India, Sovereign Head of the Order from 1910 until his death in 1936