Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander KB (March 6, 1882–September 9, 1962), was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers in Wolverhampton, England, an art collector and radical parliamentarian. The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ...

He was the elder son of Samuel Theodore Mander, of a cadet branch of the prominent Mander family of Midland industrialists and public servants. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, served in the Flying Corps in World War I, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple (1921). Alternative meanings: Harrow, London, a place in the London Borough of Harrow; Harrow School, a famous public school in the United Kingdom; The Harrow, a fantasy and horror magazine. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... Flying Corps is a 1996 World War I flight simulator developed by Rowan Software and published by Empire Interactive. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire Canada France Italy Russian Empire United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Sir Arthur Currie Ferdinand Foch Nicholas II Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar Potiorek Ä°smail Enver Ferdinand I... The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England, to which barristers belong and where they are called to the Bar. ...

He entered the House of Commons as the Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton East in May 1929. He was the Liberal specialist on foreign policy between the wars, who was one of the first to take a strong stand against the Appeasement of the fascist dictators, and was a crusader on behalf of the League of Nations. During World War II, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair (later first viscount Thurso), the Secretary of State for Air. He won a reputation in Parliament for his determined use of parliamentary questions. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... It has been suggested that Appeasement of Hitler be merged into this article or section. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, built between 1929 and 1938, was constructed as the Leagues headquarters. ... This article is becoming very long. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (then Sir Archibald Sinclair) (October 22, 1890-June 15, 1970) was leader of the UK Liberal Party from 1935 until 1945. ... The Secretary of State for Air was a cabinet level British position, in charge of the Air Ministry. ...

Wolverhampton East was one of the last urban constituencies which the Liberals managed to hold against both Labour and Conservative opposition up to 1945. Mander was expected to be nominated Chief Whip for the Liberals in the House of Commons, but he lost his seat in the 1945 general election, with the post-war Labour Party landslide. The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... Clement Attlee Winston Churchill The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 held on 5 July 1945 but not counted and declared until 26 July 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the main left-wing political party of the United Kingdom. ...

As an industrialist, he led many progressive initiatives in the field of labour relations and employment welfare. Under his direction, Mander Brothers was the first British company to introduce the 40-hour week through an historic agreement signed and mediated by Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, in September 1931. Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman, born in the small village of Winsford in Somerset, England. ... The Transport and General Workers Union, also known as the TGWU and the T&G, is one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it is known as the Amalgamated TGWU - with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the...

He was an early conservationist. He presented the family house, Wightwick Manor, in Staffordshire, with its outstanding collections of Victorian art, to the National Trust in 1937, the first country house to be so presented during the lifetime of its donor. His second wife, Rosalie Glyn Grylls, was a noted biographer of writers and artists of the romantic period and an early connoisseur of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Wightwick Manor is one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. ... Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ...

Among many public offices, he was high sheriff of Staffordshire (1921), a county councillor, justice of the peace, and was made a Knight Bachelor (1945) for his public services. The High Sheriff is, or was, a law enforcement position in Anglosphere countries. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is an inferior magistrate appointed by means of a commission of the peace (mandate) to keep the peace. ... The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ...

Sources

• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), The History of Mander Brothers, Wolverhampton. 1955
• C. Nicholas Mander, Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950, Owlpen Press, 2004
• Patricia Pegg, A Very Private Heritage: the private papers of Samuel Theodore Mander, 1853-1900, Malvern, 1996

External links

• Wightwick Manor information at the National Trust
• Wightwick Manor Garden — a Gardens Guide review
• “Sir Geoffrey Mander: the last of the Midland Radicals”