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]
(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]
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.
^History of Mander Brothers, Whitehead Brothers, n.d. [1952].
^‘Quaestor’ (W. Byford-Jones), I Met them in the Midlands, Midland News Assn., 1937
^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
^History of Mander Brothers, Whitehead Brothers, n.d. [1952].
^Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7
^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.)
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)