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 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 ...

, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of

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, whom he succeeded in 2006. He was educated at

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(senior scholar), and

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. He is a Knight of the

Sovereign Military Order of Malta The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...

and of the

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, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a liveryman of the

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and a Companion of the

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. He has owned the Tudor manor house at

Owlpen Manor Owlpen Manor is a Tudor Grade I listed manor house of the Mander family, situated in the village of Owlpen in the Stroud district in Gloucestershire, England. There is an associated estate set in a valley within the Cotswold Area of Outstandi ...

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with its associated estate since 1974, where he has opened the house to the public. He was co-founder of

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in 1973, a group of independent sixth-form colleges based in London, and of Sutton Publishing in Gloucester. He has acted as a company director of a number of companies in the UK and Spain, and served as founder chairman of The Gloucestershire County History Trust (2010) and the Gloucestershire Care Partnership (2006), and as a trustee of the Orders of St John Care Trust and the

Woodchester Mansion Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished, Gothic revival mansion house in Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the site of an earlier house known as Spring Park. The mansion is a Grade I listed building. The mansion was abandoned by its b ...

Trust among many charitable and voluntary organisations. He is the author of ''Varnished Leaves'', a history of the

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(2004), ''Country Houses of the Cotswolds'' (

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, 2008; Rizzoli, 2009, reprinted 2016), and of a personal memoir, ''Owls among Ruins'' (2022). He has contributed articles and reviews, principally on art and architectural history, to academic journals, newspapers and magazines. Mander briefly appeared in the 2017 film ''

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'' as Lord Baltimore. ''The Trouble with Home'', a documentary film about the life of the family at Owlpen Manor, was made for HTV West and screened in July 2002.

Selected publications

* ''Country Houses of the Cotswolds'' (Aurum, 2008) * ''Stone Houses of the English Countryside'' (New York: Rizzoli Classics, 2009; reprinted 2016) * ''Owls among Ruins: a Cotswold Memoir'' (Owlpen, 2022) * ''Owlpen Manor: a short history and guide to a romantic Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds'' (Owlpen, fourth edition 1995; revised 1997, 2000, 2006), 80 pp. * 'The painted cloths at Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire', in Nicola Costaras and Christina Young (eds), ''Setting the Scene: European Painted Cloths from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Century'' (Archetype, 2013) * ''Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton'' (Owlpen Press, 2004) xvi, 381 pages: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm * ''

Norman Jewson Norman Jewson (12 February 1884 – 28 August 1975) was an English architect-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, who practised in the Cotswolds. He was a distinguished, younger member of the group which had settled in Sapperton, Glouce ...

: Architect: 1884-1975'', with

Simon Verity Simon Verity (born 1945) is a British sculptor and master stonecarver. Much of his work has been garden sculpture. He has works in the private collections of King Charles III, Sir Elton John, and Lord Rothschild. Career Verity received his tra ...

and Davina Wynne-Jones (Cirencester: Arlington Mill Museum, 1987) * 'Painted Cloths: History, Craftsmen and Techniques', in ''Textile History'', v28 n2 (199701): 119-148 Unique Identifier: 5525853785. * 'Painted Cloths', in Bruce R Smith and Katherine Rowe (eds), ''The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), vol. 1, pt 6. . * ''The Queen of Seven Swords'' (Owlpen Press, 2013) * ''Borromean Rings: the genealogy of the Mander Family'' (Owlpen Press, 2011; 2nd edition, revised, 2022) * 'Wightwick Manor and the creation of the house beautiful' in Peter Burman, ed., ''Architecture 1900'' (Shaftesbury, Dorset: Donhead, 1998), xiv, 366 pages: illustrations; 24 cm) * Daniel Defoe, ''The complete English tradesman'', introduction (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988) * 'Last of the Midland Radicals; biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45' in ''Journal of Liberal History'', Issue 53, (Winter 2006-07)

Family

Mander married Karin Margareta, younger daughter of Gustav Arne Norin, of Bromma, Sweden, on 24 June 1972. They have five children: * Charles Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander (born 1975), heir apparent to the baronetcy, barrister of the

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. He married Claire Wylie, by whom he has one son and three daughters.Kidd, Charles (editor), ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'', Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7 * Benedict Edward Arthur Mander (born 1977), former journalist with the

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. He married Valentina Dorronsoro of Caracas,

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, and has two sons and one daughter. * Hugo Richard Theodore (born 1981). He married Ciara Campfield and has three sons and one daughter. * Fabian Edmund Quintin (born 1987). He married Amy Koller and has two daughters. * Sarra Maryam (born 1973). She married Stephen Earl and has two sons and one daughter.

Honours and arms

SMOM The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...

: Knight of the

Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and all ...

: Knight of the

: Cross ''pro Merito Melitensi'';

References

Sources

* Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), ''The History of Mander Brothers'' (Wolverhampton, n.d.

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* Charles Nicholas Mander, ''Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950'' (Owlpen Press, 2004) * Nicholas Mander, ''Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family'', 2011 * Mosley, Charles, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2589, ''sub'' Mander baronetcy of the Mount .K. cr. 1911. * Kidd, Charles (editor), ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'', Debrett's, 2008, B 626-7 * https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sir-nicholas-mander-historian-and-businessman-7086288

External links

Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander

Brief history of the Mander family

Mander family genealogy

Mander Brothers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mander, Sir Charles Nicholas 1950 births Living people People from Wolverhampton People from Stroud District People educated at Downside School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Knights of Malta Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Grenoble Alpes University alumni Guild of St George