Mander baronets

The Mander baronetcy, of The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, in the County of Staffordshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 July 1911^[1] in the Coronation honours of King George V, for Sir Charles Tertius Mander, English varnish and colour manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder) and public servant.

Mander baronets, of The Mount (1911)

• Sir Charles Tertius Mander (16 July 1852 – 8 April 1929), JP, DL, TD, was the eldest son of Charles Benjamin Mander, of The Mount. He was uniquely four times mayor of Wolverhampton 1892-6,^[2] an honorary freeman of the borough, a colonel in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, and the first of the Mander family to serve as High Sheriff of Staffordshire.^[3] He was an active philanthropist in many public causes. He was a progressive industrialist and manufacturer as first chairman (1924) of Mander Brothers Ltd., 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.^[4] He was created a baronet in the baronetage of the United Kingdom for his public services on 8 July 1911.

• Sir Charles Arthur Mander (25 June 1884 – 25 January 1951), JP, DL, TD, the second Baronet, was the elder son of Charles Tertius by Mary Le Mesurier Paint, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was twice mayor of Wolverhampton, and an honorary freeman of the borough; he was High Sheriff of Staffordshire.^[5] He shot for England, fought in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in World War I, where he was wounded at Beersheba in 1917, and after the decisive battle of Megiddo entered Damascus in triumph with General Allenby.^[6] He was managing director of Mander Brothers Ltd.,^[7] served on over 65 committees and organisations at one time, was in demand as an authoritative public speaker, and chaired early radio programmes. He was President of Rotary International for Britain and Ireland. In the USA, he was made an honorary chief Red Crow of the Blackfoot tribe in Montana when he gave the address at the dedication of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, the first national park to be so dedicated, in 1932.^[8]

• Sir Charles Marcus Mander (22 September 1921 – 9 August 2006), the third Baronet, was the only son of Charles Arthur by Monica Neame, of Kent.^[9] He fought with the Coldstream Guards in World War II in Italy, where he was gravely wounded in the fierce fighting by Monte Camino in October 1943. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire. He was a director of Mander Brothers,^[10] and redeveloped the centre of Wolverhampton, establishing the Mander Shopping Centre and Mander Square on the site of the 18th-century family works in 1968.^[11] He developed a township for 11,500 people at Perton outside Wolverhampton on the family agricultural estate, which had been requisitioned as an airfield during World War II. He was chairman of a number of national property development and investment companies, and farmed in Gloucestershire.^[12]

• Sir (Charles) Nicholas Mander (born 23 March 1950), the elder son of Charles Marcus by Dolores Brödermann of Hamburg, is the present baronet. ^[13] He lives at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire.^[14]

• (Charles) Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander (born 1976), a barrister of the Middle Temple, the eldest son of Charles Nicholas by Karin Margareta Norin, of Stockholm, is the heir apparent to the baronetcy.^[15]

Coat of arms of Mander of The Mount

Adopted Grant (Heraldic College, England), 30 May 1901^[16]^[17] Crest On a wreath of the colours, a demi-lion couped ermine holding in the paws two annulets interlaced fessewise gules, between two buffalo horns of the last. Escutcheon Gules, on a pile invected erminois, three annulets interlaced, two and one of the field. Motto Vive Bene ('Live Well').

Other family members

• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882–1962), Member of Parliament, industrialist and art patron
• Miles Mander (1888–1946), Hollywood actor, film director, and novelist
• Jane Mander (1877–1949), New Zealand novelist
• John Mander (1932–1978), writer, poet, cultural critic, translator; son of Geoffrey Mander
• Rosalie Glynn Grylls (1905–1988), biographer, lecturer and Liberal Party politician; wife of Geoffrey Mander

See also

• Mander family
• Mander Brothers

Notes

1. Official Roll of the Baronets (Standing Council of the Baronetage, 2017)
2. Jones, J. The Mayors of Wolverhampton, vol. 2, [n.d.] [contains contemporary biographical essay]
3. obituary in The Times, Apr. 10, 1929
4. History of Mander Brothers, Whitehead Brothers, n.d. [1952].
5. ‘Quaestor’ (W. Byford-Jones), I Met them in the Midlands, Midland News Assn., 1937
6. Nicholas Mander. Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton. Owlpen Press, 2004. Contains biography of Sir Charles Arthur Mander, with account of public life and career, and extracts from his World War I journals of the campaign in Egypt and Palestine
7. History of Mander Brothers, Whitehead Brothers, n.d. [1952].
8. "Waterton Lakes National Park: Know Before You Go". 12 September 2022.
9. 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 [U.K.], cr. 1911.
10. History of Mander Brothers, Whitehead Brothers, n.d. [1952].
11. Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 25 August 2006
12. Obituaries in The Daily Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Express & Star and other Midland newspapers
13. Official Roll of the Baronets (Standing Council of the Baronetage, 2017)
14. Who’s Who, A&C Black, 2020
15. Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7
16. Grant 72/174 to Charles Tertius Mander confirmed by Sir Albert William Woods, Garter, and George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux, Heraldic Coll. 30 May 1901, with extended limitation to descendants of Charles Benjamin Mander and Samuel Small Mander. (Ermine three Annulets interlaced gules occurs as arms for Mandere in Smith’s Ordinary (1599); the shield was confirmed by Edward Bysshe, Garter, to Thomas Maunder, of Cornelly, Cornwall, in 1657, together with the grant of a crest. These were confirmed with differences by Edward Walker (officer of arms), 1660.)
17. "Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". ebooksread.

Sources

• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), The History of Mander Brothers (Wolverhampton, 1955)
• Charles Nicholas Mander, Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750–1950 (Owlpen Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9546056-0-8.) [with bibliography and genealogy]
• Official Roll of the Baronets (Standing Council of the Baronetage, 2006, 2017)
• Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (Debrett's, 2008, B 626-7)
• 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 [U.K.], cr. 1911
• Nicholas Mander, Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family, 2011

External links

• Sir Charles Marcus Mander: Telegraph obituary^{[dead link]}