Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Baronet, (13 March 1862 – 4 February 1929) was an English lawyer and U.K.

Treasury Solicitor The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office go ...

. He was a talented amateur artist who contributed caricatures to ''Vanity Fair'' as ''Quiz''.

Biography

Eldest son of

John William Mellor John William Mellor Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Deputy Lieutenant, DL Queen's Counsel, QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an England, English lawyer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Born in London, the elde ...

and his wife Caroline, John Paget Mellor was educated at

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and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

(B.A. and LL.B. 1884). He was admitted to

Inner Temple The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional associations for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wal ...

in 1883 and called to the bar in 1886, practising on the Midland Circuit. Mellor was Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury in 1894–1899 and Solicitor to the Treasury, King's Proctor, and Procurator General between 1909 and 1923. After being made C.B. in 1905 and

K.C.B. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as o ...

in 1911, he was created Baronet in 1924. He was a director of the

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from 1923 until his death in 1929.

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