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

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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

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and of the

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, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company and a Companion of the Guild of St George. He has owned the Tudor manor house at Owlpen Manor in

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with its associated estate since 1974, where he has opened the house to the public. He was co-founder of Mander Portman Woodward in 1973, a group of independent sixth-form colleges based in London, and of

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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

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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 * ''

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: Architect: 1884-1975'', with Simon Verity 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) *

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, ''The complete English tradesman'', introduction (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988) * 'Last of the Midland Radicals; biography of Sir

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, 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

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, 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

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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

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: Knight of the

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: 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
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