Charles Marcus Mander

Charles Marcus Mander
Sir Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet
Born 22 September 1921
Kilsall Hall, Tong, Shropshire, England
Died 9 August 2006
Newport, Isle of Wight, England
Resting place Burford, Oxfordshire
Residence Little Barrow, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Nationality British
Education Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation industrialist, landowner and farmer, property developer
Home town Wolverhampton
Title baronet
Predecessor Sir Charles Arthur Mander, 2nd baronet
Successor Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th baronet
Political party Conservative
Religion Roman Catholic convert
Spouse Maria Dolores Beatrice Brodermann
Children 2 sons, Charles Nicholas and Francis Peter; one dau., Penelope Anne
Parents Charles Arthur Mander and Monica Claire Cotterill Neame
Website
An Appreciation of Sir Charles Marcus Mander

Sir Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet (21 September 1921 – 9 August 2006) was an industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer. He was known as Marcus Mander to his family and friends.

Charles Marcus Mander was the only son of Charles Arthur Mander by Monica Neame, of Kent, born at Kilsall Hall, Tong, Shropshire. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not complete his degree following the outbreak of war.

He was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in World War II, serving in North Africa, Belgium, Germany and Italy where, following the Salerno landings, he was gravely wounded in the fierce fighting at Calabritto on the slopes of Monte Camino, in October 1943.

From 1945, he was a director of Mander Brothers, the family paint, property and inks conglomerate founded in Wolverhampton in 1773. He was soon responsible for its property portfolio, and redeveloped the centre of Wolverhampton, in 1968 establishing the Mander Shopping Centre and Mander Square on the site of the Georgian family works. Sir Charles was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1962-63 before two City posts with property groups, first as chairman of Arlington Securities (sold to British Aerospace) and then as chairman of London & Cambridge Investments. He also 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.

In the year 2000, he had to sell part of his estate at Little Barrow, Donnington, near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in order to meet underwriting losses at the Lloyd's insurance market. According to The Times newspaper (24 June 2000), Lady Mander had been offered a settlement by Lloyd's, but refused, which resulted in her being declared bankrupt. The mansion house was then sold to meet a debt believed to be well over one million pounds.

Sir Charles converted to Roman Catholicism following a business visit to Damascus in 1955. Shortly after, he resigned his directorship with Mander Brothers.

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Family

Charles Marcus Mander married Maria Dolores, daughter of Alfred Edmund Brödermann, of Hamburg, on November 24, 1945, by whom he had three children:

  1. Charles Nicholas (b. 23 March 1950).
  2. Francis Peter (b. 4 December 1952). He married Georgina Thring (issue: two sons).
  3. Penelope Anne Mary (b. 22 September 1946). She married firstly Michael Rollo Hoare, a partner in C. Hoare & Co (issue: two daughters), and secondly Simon Loder (issue: one son).
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Arthur Mander
Baronet
(of The Mount)

1951–2006
Succeeded by
Charles Nicholas Mander

See also

Sources

  • Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), The History of Mander Brothers (Wolverhampton, n.d. [1955])
  • C. Nicholas Mander, Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950 (Owlpen Press, 2004)
  • Burke's Peerage and Baronetage

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