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2 unusual facts about Mander family


Francis Mander

He was the father of the notable New Zealand novelist and journalist, Jane Mander, and a descendant of the Mander family of Midland England.

Mander Brothers

In the early industrial revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of Wolverhampton, on the edge of the largest manufacturing conurbation in the British Isles.


Henry Nicholas Paint

His younger daughter, Mary Le Mesurier, married Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, of the Mander family, industrialists and philanthropists dominant in the English Midlands.

RAF Perton

In 1972, the Mander family sold the site of the airfield to a private developer for £5.5 million, with the first houses being occupied within a couple of years and Perton being firmly established as a major residential area by the mid-1980s, by which time some 11,500 people were living there.


see also

Henry Nicholas Paint

Nicholas Mander, Varnished leaves : a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950. Dursley: Owlpen Press.