Nicholas Mander

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

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.

• Country Houses of the Cotswolds (Aurum, 2008) ISBN 978-1-84513-331-3 OCLC 836924731
• Stone Houses of the English Countryside (New York: Rizzoli Classics, 2009; reprinted 2016) ISBN 978-0-8478-4846-1 OCLC 1023086182
• Owls among Ruins: a Cotswold Memoir (Owlpen, 2022) ISBN 978-0-9546056-6-7
• Owlpen Manor: a short history and guide to a romantic Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds (Owlpen, fourth edition 1995; revised 1997, 2000, 2006), 80 pp. ISBN 978-0-9546056-1-2 OCLC 892627680
• 'The painted cloths at Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire', in Nicola Costaras and Christina Young (eds), Setting the Scene: European Painted Cloths from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Archetype, 2013) ISBN 978-1-904982-90-6 OCLC 888679191
• Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton (Owlpen Press, 2004) xvi, 381 pages: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm ISBN 978-0-9546056-0-5 OCLC 62614241
• Norman Jewson: Architect: 1884-1975, with Simon Verity and Davina Wynne-Jones (Cirencester: Arlington Mill Museum, 1987) OCLC 1266455634
• 'Painted Cloths: History, Craftsmen and Techniques', in Textile History, v28 n2 (199701): 119-148 Unique Identifier: 5525853785. ISSN 0040-4969
• 'Painted Cloths', in Bruce R Smith and Katherine Rowe (eds), The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), vol. 1, pt 6. OCLC 890799092.
• The Queen of Seven Swords (Owlpen Press, 2013) ISBN 978-0-9546056-5-0
• Borromean Rings: the genealogy of the Mander Family (Owlpen Press, 2011; 2nd edition, revised, 2022) ISBN 978-0-9546056-0-5
• 'Wightwick Manor and the creation of the house beautiful' in Peter Burman, ed., Architecture 1900 (Shaftesbury, Dorset: Donhead, 1998), xiv, 366 pages: illustrations; 24 cm) ISBN 978-1-873394-32-8 OCLC 40215662
• Daniel Defoe, The complete English tradesman, introduction (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988) ISBN 978-0-86299-464-8 OCLC 1101243830
• 'Last of the Midland Radicals; biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45' in Journal of Liberal History, Issue 53, (Winter 2006-07)

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

• Charles Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander (born 1975), heir apparent to the baronetcy, barrister of the Middle Temple. He married Claire Wylie, by whom he has one son and three daughters.^[13]
• Benedict Edward Arthur Mander (born 1977), former journalist with the Financial Times. He married Valentina Dorronsoro of Caracas, Venezuela, and has two sons and one daughter.
• Hugo Richard Theodore (born 1981). He married Ciara Campfield and has three sons and one daughter.
• Fabian Edmund Quintin (born 1987). He married Amy Koller and has two daughters.
• Sarra Maryam (born 1973). She married Stephen Earl and has two sons and one daughter.

Coat of arms of Mander Baronets

Adopted Grant (Heraldic College, England), 30 May 1901[14][15] 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. Escutcheon Gules, on a pile invected erminois, three annulets interlaced, two and one of the field. Motto Vive Bene ('Live Well'). Symbolism Trinity; Borromean rings; valknut

• SMOM: Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
• Two Sicilies: Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
• SMOM: Cross pro Merito Melitensi;

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• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), The History of Mander Brothers (Wolverhampton, n.d. [1955])
• Charles Nicholas Mander, Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950 (Owlpen Press, 2004)
• Nicholas Mander, Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family, 2011
• 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.
• Kidd, Charles (editor), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Debrett's, 2008, B 626-7
• https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sir-nicholas-mander-historian-and-businessman-7086288

• Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander
• Brief history of the Mander family
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