Charles Tertius Mander

Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet JP, DL, TD (16 July 1852 – 8 April 1929) was a Midland manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder), philanthropist and public servant, of Wolverhampton, England. Biography Mander was the eldest son of Charles Benjamin Mander, of a family of early industrialists and public servants prominent in the public and civic life of Wolverhampton since 1745. He was educated at Rugby School and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Charles Tertius Mander served as a councillor for Wolverhampton Borough Council from 1886. Among many public offices, he was uniquely four times mayor of Wolverhampton 1892–6; an alderman; and was awarded the honorary freedom of the borough of Wolverhampton in 1897. He was the progressive chairman of the Lighting Committee (1893–1902), the Wolverhampton Corporation Tramways Committee (1896–1920), where he was an advocate of the American Lorain system of surface contact, and of the Watch Committee (1920–7). He was outstanding for his hospitality as mayor, donating seasonal gifts, including warm underwear for cabmen, tram conductors and drivers, hosting a dinner for one thousand destitute children and the poor at the Agricultural Hall, and entertaining the local elite in the drill hall. He served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1903. He also served for many years in the Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment), as captain from the 1890, as major from March 1902, and lastly as colonel. He was a progressive industrialist and manufacturer as senior partner and then first chairman of Mander Brothers (1923), the family paint, varnish and printing inks works founded by his great-grandfather in 1773. He was also active in many other companies, including acting as chairman of Thomas Parker, a Midland electrical company credited with the invention of the sparking plug, the monoblock engine and the carburettor, and chairman of the Queen's Square Syndicate (1907-29).