This article is about the merchant. For the High Court judge, see
James Mellor (judge).
James Mellor (died 18 August 1860) was a
Liverpool merchant, local politician, and friend of
Richard Cobden.[1]
Life
Mellor was a brewer, wine and spirit merchant, and maltster.[2] The brewery James Mellor & Sons was founded in 1823, in Hunter Street, Liverpool.[3] The wine and spirit dealers John Mellor & Co., involving John, James and Thomas Mellor, was dissolved in 1835.[4] The brewery business survived to 1974, when it merged with
Higsons Brewery.[5]
In 1840, Mellor was one of two Liverpool delegates to a large
Anti-Corn Law League rally in
Manchester, in a large temporary structure on the site of the future
Free Trade Hall.[8] He was prominent in the Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association, allied to the League, and at the Liverpool free trade rally of 1843 proposed
William Rathbone V as chair.[9] In November 1845, he was one of a delegation, with
Thomas Thornely, David Brown and James Mullaneux, calling on the Mayor of Liverpool, and asking what steps were being taken over the potato crop failure affecting Ireland.[10]
Mellor was a member of the Financial Reform Council. Cobden paid him a visit in Liverpool in 1848, meeting there other members of the Council. He was at this time, possibly, a cotton broker.[11]
At the end of Mellor's life, his address was Cleveland Square, Hyde Park, London.[12] His daughter Martha and husband were living with him. He died at
Ilkley in Yorkshire.[13]
Family
Mellor's children:
Alice, married in 1839 William Hargreaves, seventh son of the calico spinner Thomas Hargreaves, and a close friend of Cobden.[14][15][16] Their daughter Mary Constance married
Sir Joseph Leese, 1st Baronet.[17]
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^Britain, Great (1835).
The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 1510. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
^The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 1844. p. 16.
^The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 1845. p. 1163.
^W. N. Calkins, A Victorian Free Trade Lobby, The Economic History Review New Series, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1960), pp. 90–104, at pp. 99 and 92 note 1. Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Economic History Society. DOI: 10.2307/2591408
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