Nicholas Mander


Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet is a British baronet, historian and businessman.
FB nicholas.mander

Biography

He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores, née Brödermann, of Hamburg, whom he succeeded in 2006. He was educated at Downside School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Grenoble University. 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.
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. 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. 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 and the Gloucestershire Care Partnership, and as a trustee of the Orders of St John Care Trust and the Woodchester Mansion Trust among many charitable and voluntary organisations.
He is the author of Varnished Leaves, a history of the Mander family, Country Houses of the Cotswolds, and of a personal memoir, Owls among Ruins. He has contributed articles and reviews, principally on art and architectural history, to academic journals, newspapers and magazines.
Mander briefly appeared in the 2017 film Phantom Thread as Lord Baltimore. 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

Country Houses of the Cotswolds Stone Houses of the English Countryside Owls among Ruins: a Cotswold Memoir Owlpen Manor: a short history and guide to a romantic Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds, 80 pp.
  • 'The painted cloths at Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire', in Nicola Costaras and Christina Young, Setting the Scene: European Painted Cloths from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Century Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton xvi, 381 pages: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm Norman Jewson: Architect: 1884-1975, with Simon Verity and Davina Wynne-Jones
  • 'Painted Cloths: History, Craftsmen and Techniques', in Textile History, v28 n2 : 119-148 Unique Identifier: 5525853785.
  • 'Painted Cloths', in Bruce R Smith and Katherine Rowe, The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, vol. 1, pt 6..The Queen of Seven Swords Borromean Rings: the genealogy of the Mander Family
  • 'Wightwick Manor and the creation of the house beautiful' in Peter Burman, ed., Architecture 1900
  • Daniel Defoe, The complete English tradesman, introduction
  • 'Last of the Midland Radicals; biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45' in Journal of Liberal History, Issue 53,

Family

Mander married Karin Margareta, younger daughter of Gustav Arne Norin, of Bromma, Sweden, on 24 June 1972. They have five children:Charles Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander, heir apparent to the baronetcy, barrister of the Middle Temple. He married Claire Wylie, by whom he has one son and three daughters.
  • Benedict Edward Arthur Mander, former journalist with the Financial Times. He married Valentina Dorronsoro of Caracas, Venezuela, and has two sons and one daughter.
  • Hugo Richard Theodore. He married Ciara Campfield and has three sons and one daughter.
  • Fabian Edmund Quintin. He married Amy Koller and has two daughters.
  • Sarra Maryam. She married Stephen Earl and has two sons and one daughter.

Honours and arms