James Mellor Explained
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 the 1835 Liverpool Town Council election, the first for the council following the Municipal Corporations Act, Mellor was one of six candidates for the Exchange ward. He polled third, and was elected, with Henry Holmes and Lawrence Heyworth.[6] The burgess roll for 1846 places his counting house in Exchange Alley North.[7]
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:
Relationship Unknown, not a son.
- George Henry (1853–1910), barrister.[18] [19]
Notes and References
- Book: Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. 1874. Chetham Society. 186.
- Book: England), Lincoln's Inn (London. The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn ...: 1800-1893, and chapel registers. 1896. Lincoln's Inn. 365.
- Book: Barber, Norman. A Century of British Brewers, 1890–1990. 1994. Brewery History Society. 9781873966044. 67.
- Book: Britain, Great. The London Gazette. 6 May 2018. 1835. T. Neuman. 1510.
- Book: Richmond. Lesley. Turton. Alison. The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records. 6 May 2018. 1990. Manchester University Press. 9780719030321. 180.
- Book: The Poll for the Election of Town Councillors ... of Liverpool. Taken ... December, 1835. 1836. 27 and 32.
- Web site: Burgess Roll of the Borough of Liverpool, 1846. 1846. Internet Archive. 73. 6 May 2018.
- [s:History of the Anti-Corn Law League/Chapter10]
- Book: The Economist. 1844. Economist Newspaper Limited. 16.
- Book: The Economist. 1845. Economist Newspaper Limited. 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
- Web site: Cause number: 1862 M115. Short title: In the matter of the estate of James Mellor esq, The National Archives. 5 May 2018.
- Book: The Illustrated London News. 1860. Leighton. 184.
- Book: Richard Cobden. The Letters of Richard Cobden: 1860–1865. 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-921198-2. 119 note 8.
- Web site: Chetham Miscellanies: The Admission Register of the Manchester School, Vol. III Part 2. Smith. Jeremiah Finch. 1874. Internet Archive. Printed for the Chetham Society. 186. 6 May 2018.
- Book: Richard Cobden. The Letters of Richard Cobden: 1860–1865. 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-921198-2. 119 note 6.
- Book: Richard Cobden. Anthony Howe. Simon Morgan. The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume III: 1854–1859. 5 July 2012. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-921197-5. 34–.
- [s:Men-at-the-Bar/Mellor, George Henry]
- Book: The Law Journal. 1910. E.B. Ince. 390.
