Robert Beauclerk Loder, CBE (24 April 1934 – 22 July 2017) was an English businessman and art collector.
While in Johannesburg he helped run Union Artists, a black theatre group that played to mixed audiences in apartheid South Africa.
From 1968 he was a Trustee and for 10 years chair of the Mental Health Foundation, for which service he was appointed a CBE in the 1989 Birthday Honours.
[2] In 1980, Loder met Anthony Caro who was trying to organise an exhibition of British abstract art in South African townships.
In 1981, when staying in New York State, the pair developed the idea of running workshops for professional artists, which became the Triangle Arts Trust.