Colonel John James Mellor (12 August 1830 – 12 January 1916) was a British industrialist and
Conservative politician.
Early life
Mellor was born in
Oldham,
Lancashire, and was educated privately.
[''New Members of Parliament'', The Times, 19 July 1895, p. 15]
Business and military
He entered business as a cotton manufacturer and became chairman of J & J J Mellor Limited of
Bury and Brook Mills Limited of
Heywood.
He was also involved in railway administration, and was a director of the
Metropolitan Railway
The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex su ...
and the
South Eastern Railway.
[
For twenty-seven years he held a commission in the Volunteer Force, retiring as honorary colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers.][''An Old Volunteer Colonel'', The Times, 14 January 1916, p. 5]
Politics
In 1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
he stood as Conservative candidate for the Radcliffe cum Farnworth constituency, but failed to be elected.[ Robert Leake, the sitting Liberal MP stood down at the next general election in 1895. Mellor was again selected as Conservative candidate, and was elected as Member of Parliament, benefitting from both a large swing to the Conservatives and the fact that Leake had a large personal vote.
Mellor was only in the Commons for five years, deciding not to stand again. At the 1900 general election Radcliffe cum Farnworth was regained by the Liberals.
In 1908, he invited ]Viscount Ridley
Viscount Ridley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the Conservative politician Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet, Home Secretary from 1895 to 1900. He was made Baron Wensleydale, of Blagdon and Bl ...
, who was the chairman for the Tariff Reform League to hold a large demonstration of the unionist party at Gwrych Castle, Ridley accepted and the event was held at 14th September.
Apart from his business and political activities, Mellor took an interest in science and engineering, and was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society for nearly sixty years.[
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Family
He married Jennette Clegg in 1865, and they lived at The Woodland, Whitefield near Manchester.[
Their son Walter Clifford Mellor was an ordained minister and leading member of the Neo-Jacobite Revival before the First World War.]Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland
The Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland was a Jacobite society founded in 1891 by Herbert Vivian, Melville Henry Massue and Ruaraidh Erskine following a split from the earlier Order of the White Rose. The League was consider ...
.
References
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1830 births
1916 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1895–1900
Lancashire Fusiliers officers
People from Oldham
Volunteer Force officers
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