The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the
Midland counties of England, both in the family business and public life.
In the early
industrial revolution
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, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of Wolverhampton, on the edge of the largest manufacturing conurbation in the British Isles. Mander Brothers was a major employer in the city of
Wolverhampton
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, a progressive company which became the Number One manufacturers of
varnish,
paint
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and later printing
ink
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in the
British Empire
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. The family became distinguished for public service, art patronage and philanthropy. Charles Tertius Mander (1852–1929) was created the first
baronet of The Mount in the
baronetage of the United Kingdom
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Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
James I of E ...
in the Coronation honours of
George V
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Born duri ...
, on 8 July 1911.
Early history
The family were
franklins, settled by 1291 at
Tredington on the
Warwickshire
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/
Worcestershire
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borders of Midland England. The Wolverhampton family descends from Henry Mander (1601–72), of
Aston Cantlow
Aston Cantlow is a village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Alne north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and north-west of Wilmcote, close to Little Alnoe, Shelfield, and Newnham.'Aston Cantlow', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: ...
, whose son, Samuel Mander, migrated about 1695 to
Lapworth
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Hall (also known as 'Irelands'), where the family remained for about 200 years. In 1742, his grandson Thomas Mander (1720–1764), a younger son, migrated a few miles north to Wolverhampton, then a market town of just 7,500 people. There he settled as a merchant, maltster and manufacturer, and in due course inherited property from the family of his wife, Elizabeth Clemson, in John Street, which today forms the core of the modern city.
Family members
*Benjamin (1752–1819) and John Mander (1754–1827) were Thomas's sons. By 1773, they were setting up a cluster of loosely integrated businesses in Wolverhampton, including one of the largest chemical manufacturing works in the country, together with businesses in baking,
japanning
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and tin-plate working, canals and gas manufacture. Benjamin Mander was chairman of the Wolverhampton Union Flour and Bread Company, a milling
co-operative
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company set up for charitable purposes to provide subsidised bread and flour in the period of social distress following the
Napoleonic Wars
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. The two brothers campaigned actively against the slave trade, founded chapels, libraries and schools, and entered into local politics as town commissioners, four Manders sitting at one time for the
Georgian
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borough. A third brother, Thomas Mander, set up in the hardware trade, as a factor and gun and flintlock manufacturer of
Five Ways, Birmingham
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.
Hereafter, the eldest sons of the senior line of the family have been given the first name Charles:
*Charles Mander (1780–1853), the eldest son of Benjamin, founded a varnish works in 1803 which was to prosper though the 19th century. He was a penal reformer who campaigned against the
Blood Money
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* Blood money (restitution), money paid to the family of a murder victim
Films
* Blood Money (1917 film), ''Blood Money'' (1917 film), a film starring Harry Carey
* Blood Money (1921 film), ''Blood Money'' (1921 film ...
Act, successfully petitioning with others for its repeal in 1818. The romantic story of how he rescued two soldiers from the gallows accused of stealing just 1s.1d. became the subject of a novel by the jurist
Samuel Warren, ''Now and Then'' (1848). He was a noted
nonconformist
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** ...
, whose exertions for the tenure of endowments by a 23-year
Chancery case led to the
Dissenters' Chapels Act 1844
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.
*Charles Benjamin Mander
JP (1819–1878) was the eldest son of Charles. He was the force behind the establishment of the first publicly funded institution for art education in Britain in 1852. As a town councillor, he campaigned for clean drinking water fountains, and for the free library in Wolverhampton. With the rise of the railways, he greatly expanded the business of
Mander Brothers
Mander Brothers was a major employer in the city of Wolverhampton, in the English Midlands, a progressive company founded in 1773. In the 19th century the firm became the number one manufacturers of varnishes, paints and later printing inks in th ...
, forming a partnership with his brother Samuel in 1845. He is commemorated by a blue plaque at The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, the house he built after 1862 (now a hotel).
*Sir
Charles Tertius Mander
Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet JP, DL, TD (16 July 1852 – 8 April 1929) was a Midland manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder), philanthropist and public servant, of Wolverhampton, England.
Biography
Mander was the eldest s ...
JP,
DL (1852–1929), the eldest son of Benjamin, among many public offices was uniquely four times mayor of Wolverhampton 1892–6, an
alderman
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, was awarded an honorary
freedom of the borough
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; he was a colonel in the
Staffordshire Yeomanry, and the first of the family to serve as
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. He was a progressive industrialist and manufacturer as the first chairman of Mander Brothers (1923), the family paint and varnish works, but also in many other companies, including a Midland electrical company credited with the invention of the
spark plug. He was created the first
baronet
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of the Mount,
Tettenhall Wood
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, for his public services on 8 July 1911.
*Sir
Charles Arthur Mander
Sir Charles Arthur Mander, 2nd Baronet JP, DL, TD (25 June 1884 – 25 January 1951) was a public servant, philanthropist, and manufacturer, as managing director of Mander Brothers, the family paint, varnish and inks business established in 1 ...
JP, DL,
TD (1884–1951), the second baronet, was the elder son of Charles Tertius by Mary Le Mesurier, daughter of
Henry Nicholas Paint
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Career
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, a Member of the Dominion
Parliament of Canada
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. He was twice mayor of Wolverhampton, and an honorary freeman of the borough. He shot (rifle) for England while at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. In
World War I
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he was a major in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, attached to the
Yeomanry Mounted Division
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in the
Sinai and Palestine Campaign. He was wounded in the
Third Battle of Gaza
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at
Beersheba
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in 1917, and following the decisive battle of
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entered
Damascus
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in triumph with
General Allenby
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. He served on over 65 committees and organisations at one time, was in demand as a public speaker, and presented early radio discussion programmes. He was vice-chairman of the National Savings Committee and President of
Rotary International
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for Britain and Ireland. In the US, he was made an honorary chief Red Crow of the
Blackfoot tribe in
Montana
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when he gave the address at the dedication of the
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
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H ...
, the first national park to be so dedicated, in 1932.
*Sir
Charles Marcus Mander
Sir Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet (22 September 1921 – 9 August 2006) was an industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer. He was known as Marcus Mander to his family and friends.
Biography
Charles Marcus Mander was the only ...
(1921–2006), the third baronet, was the only son of Charles Arthur by Monica
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*Christopher Neame (born 1947), English actor
*Christopher Neame (writer/producer) (1942–2011), British film producer and screenwriter
* Douglas Neame (190 ...
, of
Kent
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. He fought with the
Coldstream Guards
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in
World War II
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in North Africa, Germany and Italy, where following the
Salerno landings
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he was gravely wounded in the fierce fighting at
Calabritto, on the slopes of Monte Camino, in October 1943. He was a director of Mander Brothers, responsible for its property portfolio, and redeveloped the centre of Wolverhampton, from 1968 establishing the Mander Shopping Centre and Mander Square on the site of the early family works. Sir Charles was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1962–63 before two City posts, first as chairman of Arlington Securities (sold to
British Aerospace
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) and then as chairman of another property group, London & Cambridge Investments, which went bust in 1991. He developed a township for 11,500 people at
Perton
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outside Wolverhampton on the family agricultural estate, which had been requisitioned as an airfield during World War II. His wife sustained underwriting losses as a Name in the
Lloyd's
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insurance market in the 1990s.
The Times
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newspaper reported on 24 June 2000, that Lady Mander, having refused a settlement offered to her by Lloyd's, was declared bankrupt. In due course, the mansion house at Little Barrow,
Donnington, near Moreton-in-Marsh,
Gloucestershire
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, was sold to meet a debt believed to be well over one million pounds.
*
Sir (Charles) Nicholas Mander (born 1950), the elder son of Charles Marcus by Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of
Hamburg
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, is the fourth baronet, a knight of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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, and a
FSA. He lives at
Owlpen Manor
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in Gloucestershire. He was co-founder of
Mander Portman Woodward
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The college is an alternative to the traditional school setting. Students at MPW do not we ...
and of
Sutton Publishing, and is the author of a history on the family and other books.
*(Charles) Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander (born 1975) is the eldest son of Charles Nicholas by Karin Margareta Norin, of
Stockholm
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. He is heir apparent to the baronetcy. He is a barrister of the
Middle Temple
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.
Other members of the family
Descendants of the above Henry Mander (1601–72), of Aston Cantlow
*
The Hon. Francis Mander (1849–1942) was a member of the
Parliament of New Zealand
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and of the
Legislative Council. He stood first as an Independent Conservative and then from 1909 for the Reform Party. He won the Marsden electorate in Northland in the 1902 general election, which he held until 1922, when he retired. He was subsequently appointed to the Legislative Council in 1923 and served to 1930. In business he was a pioneer sawmiller and owner of ''The Northern Chronicle'' newspaper, based in Whangarei. He then purchased a popular newspaper, ''
The Northern Advocate
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History
''The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser'' was founded in 1875 as a weekly paper by George Alderton and, desp ...
'', and closed the ''Chronicle''. He was the father of the noted New Zealand novelist and journalist, Jane Mander.
*
Jane Mander
Mary Jane Mander (9 April 1877 – 20 December 1949) was a New Zealand novelist and journalist.
Early life
Born in the small community of Ramarama south of Auckland, she had little schooling, yet was teaching at primary school while being ...
(1877–1949) was one of the foremost
New Zealand
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novelists of the early twentieth century. Her most successful novels were ''The Story of a New Zealand River'' (1920) and ''Allen Adair'' (1925). She was the daughter of the above Francis Mander and started as a journalist writing for his newspaper, ''The Northern Advocate''.
*(Samuel) Theodore Mander (1853–1900), paint and varnish manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist, was the eldest of seven children of Samuel Small Mander. He was educated at London and Berlin Universities, and at Clare College, Cambridge. He entered the partnership of Mander Brothers with his first cousin Charles Tertius Mander in 1879. As a Congregationalist with a fervent interest in the arts and education, he was active in the building of the Wolverhampton Free Library, governor of several local schools and of Birmingham University (where he endowed a scholarship), and one of the founding benefactors of
Mansfield College, Oxford
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, the first Nonconformist college in the university. A selection of his journals and letters was edited and published in 1996. He was an art collector and patron, and is remembered as the builder of Wightwick Manor in 1887 and 1893 to the designs of
Edward Ould
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Ould was a son of the rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire. He became a pupil of the Chester architect John Douglas and in 1886 he joined in partnership with the Liverpool architect G ...
, with decorations and furnishings by C.E. Kempe, William Morris and William de Morgan, which was given by his son Geoffrey Mander to the National Trust in 1937. He was an alderman and magistrate, who died in office as Mayor of Wolverhampton at Wightwick Manor on 14 September 1901 at the early age of 47, when he was given a civic funeral.
*
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882–1962), was the eldest son of (Samuel) Theodore Mander, the builder of
Wightwick Manor
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. He was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers, an art collector and
radical parliamentarian. He was the Member of Parliament for
Wolverhampton East from May 1929 until he lost his seat in the
Labour Party landslide at the
1945 general election. He was the
Liberal Party
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specialist on foreign policy between the wars, strongly anti-
Appeasement
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and a crusader on behalf of the
League of Nations
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. He gave Wightwick Manor, with its outstanding collections of
Victorian art, to the
National Trust
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in 1937. His second wife,
Rosalie Glynn Grylls, was a biographer of writers and artists of the romantic period and an early authority on
William Morris
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and the
Pre-Raphaelite movement
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.
*
Sir Frederick Mander FEIS
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(12 July 1883 – 27 February 1964) was a headmaster and trade unionist and the General Secretary of the
National Union of Teachers
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(NUT) from 1931 to 1947. Mander College of Further Education in
Bedford College was named after him. Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, he was descended from the above Henry Mander of Aston Cantlow.
[David Crook, 'Mander, Sir Frederick (1883–1964)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200]
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*Miles Mander
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(1888–1946), younger brother of Geoffrey, broke away from the mould of public service and industry, and became a well-known character actor of the Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, and film director, playwright and novelist. He was an early aviator and racing car enthusiast, who spent his 20s in New Zealand
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farming sheep. He achieved success in films with ''The First Born'' which he directed and acted in, and which was based on his own novel and play. He is better remembered for his character portrayals of oily types, many of them upper-crust villains – such as Cardinal Richelieu in ''The Three Musketeers
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'' (1939). In his Hollywood debut, he portrayed King Louis XIII
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in the 1935 version of that same Alexandre Dumas, père
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classic. Other films credits included ''Wuthering Heights
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'' with Laurence Olivier
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and Merle Oberon
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. His first wife was an Indian princess, Princess Prativa Sundari Devi, the daughter of the Maharajah
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Nripendra Narayan
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Nripendra Narayan was only ten months old when his father, Narendra Narayan, died in ...
of Cooch Behar
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. His youngest brother Alan married her sister, Princess Sudhira.
*John Mander
John (Geoffrey Grylls) Mander (28 May 1932 – 2 September 1978) was a British political commentator, writer, translator and poet.
Childhood, education and personal life
Mander was the younger son of Sir Geoffrey Mander, a Wolverhampton indu ...
(1932–1978), a British political commentator, writer, translator from the German, editor and poet, was the younger son of Geoffrey Mander by his second wife, the author and biographer Rosalie Glynn Grylls.
* Raymond Mander (15 July 1911 – 27 December 1988), theatre historian, author and collector. Together with Joe Mitchenson, he was the founder of the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection (MMTC) of theatrical memorabilia and archives, since 2010 housed in the Theatre Collection of the University of Bristol.
* Lewis Norman Mander, , FAA
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, FRS (1939–2020) was an Australian organic chemist
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, born in Auckland, New Zealand
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. He has widely explored the synthesis and chemistry of the gibberellin
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class of diterpenes over a 20-year period at the Australian National University
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(ANU).
See also
* Mander Baronets
*Mander Brothers
Mander Brothers was a major employer in the city of Wolverhampton, in the English Midlands, a progressive company founded in 1773. In the 19th century the firm became the number one manufacturers of varnishes, paints and later printing inks in th ...
*Charles Tertius Mander
Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet JP, DL, TD (16 July 1852 – 8 April 1929) was a Midland manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder), philanthropist and public servant, of Wolverhampton, England.
Biography
Mander was the eldest s ...
*Charles Arthur Mander
Sir Charles Arthur Mander, 2nd Baronet JP, DL, TD (25 June 1884 – 25 January 1951) was a public servant, philanthropist, and manufacturer, as managing director of Mander Brothers, the family paint, varnish and inks business established in 1 ...
*Charles Marcus Mander
Sir Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet (22 September 1921 – 9 August 2006) was an industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer. He was known as Marcus Mander to his family and friends.
Biography
Charles Marcus Mander was the only ...
*Sir Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet
Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet (born 23 March 1950) is a British baronet, historian and businessman.
Biography
He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of H ...
* Roger Mander
* Frederick Mander
*Geoffrey Mander
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (6 March 1882 – 9 September 1962) was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers in Wolverhampton, England, an art collector and Liberal parliamentarian.
Ea ...
*Francis Mander
Francis Mander (1849 – 27 August 1942) was a member of parliament in New Zealand, first as an Independent Conservative and then, from 1909, as a Reform Party member.
He won the Marsden electorate in Northland in the 1902 general e ...
*John Mander
John (Geoffrey Grylls) Mander (28 May 1932 – 2 September 1978) was a British political commentator, writer, translator and poet.
Childhood, education and personal life
Mander was the younger son of Sir Geoffrey Mander, a Wolverhampton indu ...
*Miles Mander
Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist. He was sometimes credited as Luther Mile ...
*Jane Mander
Mary Jane Mander (9 April 1877 – 20 December 1949) was a New Zealand novelist and journalist.
Early life
Born in the small community of Ramarama south of Auckland, she had little schooling, yet was teaching at primary school while being ...
* Rosalie Glynn Grylls
Sources
*Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), ''The History of Mander Brothers'' (Wolverhampton, n.d. 955
Year 955 ( CMLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* August 10 – Battle of Lechfeld: King Otto I ("the Great") defeats the Hungarians (also ...
*Nicholas Mander, ''Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750–1950'' (Owlpen Press, 2004) {{ISBN, 0-9546056-0-8 ontains detailed bibliography*Patricia Pegg, ''A Very Private Heritage: the private papers of Samuel Theodore Mander, 1853–1900'' (Malvern: Images Publishing, 1996)
*Patricia Pegg, ''Lemons for Chamberlain: The Life and Backbench Career of Geoffrey Mander MP'' (Mantle Lane Press, 2021)
*Benjamin Mander. ''The King versus B. Mander and Eight Others: The Trial at Large of the Committee of the Flour and Bread Co. (of which Benjamin Mander was Chairman) at Stafford Summer Assizes, 1814'', Whitehead Brothers, 1956 (reprinted)
References
External links
Brief history of the Mander family
About Us - Mander Jewelry
English families
Wolverhampton
People of the Industrial Revolution
People from Birmingham, West Midlands