Nicholas Mander Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
(Charles) Nicholas Mander
Honorific Suffix:Baronet
Birth Place:Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Cambridge
Nationality:British and German

Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet[1] (born 23 March 1950) is a British baronet, historian and businessman.[2]

Biography

He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of Hamburg, whom he succeeded in 2006.[3] He was educated at Downside School, Trinity College, Cambridge (senior scholar), and Grenoble University.[4] He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company and a Companion of the Guild of St George.[5]

He has owned the Tudor manor house at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire with its associated estate since 1974, where he has opened the house to the public.[6] He was co-founder of Mander Portman Woodward in 1973, a group of independent sixth-form colleges based in London, and of Sutton Publishing in Gloucester.[7] He has acted as a company director of a number of companies in the UK and Spain, and served as founder chairman of The Gloucestershire County History Trust (2010) and the Gloucestershire Care Partnership (2006),[8] and as a trustee of the Orders of St John Care Trust and the Woodchester Mansion Trust[9] among many charitable and voluntary organisations.

He is the author of Varnished Leaves, a history of the Mander family (2004), Country Houses of the Cotswolds (Aurum Press, 2008; Rizzoli, 2009, reprinted 2016), and of a personal memoir, Owls among Ruins (2022). He has contributed articles and reviews, principally on art and architectural history, to academic journals, newspapers and magazines.[10]

Mander briefly appeared in the 2017 film Phantom Thread as Lord Baltimore.[11] The Trouble with Home, a documentary film about the life of the family at Owlpen Manor, was made for HTV West and screened in July 2002.

Selected publications

Family

Mander married Karin Margareta, younger daughter of Gustav Arne Norin, of Bromma, Sweden, on 24 June 1972. They have five children:[12]

Honours and arms

Mander Baronets
Year Adopted:Grant (Heraldic College, England), 30 May 1901[14] [15]
Escutcheon:Gules, on a pile invected erminois, three annulets interlaced, two and one of the field.
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.
Motto:Vive Bene ('Live Well').
Mantling:Gules and or.
Livery:Blue, yellow facings, brass buttons.
Symbolism:Trinity

See also

Sources

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Notes and References

  1. Official Roll of the Baronets (Standing Council of the Baronetage, 2017)
  2. Web site: Sir Nicholas Mander: Historian and Businessman . 31 January 2010 .
  3. 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
  4. ‘'Who’s Who'’, A&C Black, 2020
  5. ‘'Who’s Who'’, A&C Black, 2020
  6. News: Great Estates: Inside the 'haunted' Tudor country house which starred in Phantom Thread . The Telegraph . 4 March 2018 . Tyzack . Anna .
  7. Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7
  8. ‘'Who’s Who'’, A&C Black, 2020
  9. ‘'Who’s Who'’, A&C Black, 2020
  10. Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7
  11. Web site: Nicholas Mander . .
  12. 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.
  13. Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett’s, 2008, B 626-7
  14. 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.)
  15. Web site: Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour . ebooksread.