Rt Hon. John William MELLOR Q.C. M.P. [4112]

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JOHN William Mellor was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician, at one time representing Grantham. Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, young Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

MELLOR, the Right Hon. JOHN WILLIAM, of Culmhead, Somerset.
Eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Kings-downs House, Kent, who d 1887, by Elizabeth Cooke, dau. of the late William Moseley, Esq. (she d. 1894) ; b. 1836; m. 1860 Caroline, 4th dau. of the late Charles Paget, Esq., M.P., of Ruddington Grange, Notts, and has, with other issue, John Paget, b. 1862; m. 1890 Mabel, eldest dau. of George Serocold Pearce-Serocold, Esq., of Cherryhinton, Torquay, and has, with other issue, John Serocold Paget, b. 1893.
Mr. Mellor, who was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860), and called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 1860, was made Q.C. 1875, a Bencher of the Inner Temple 1877, is an hon. member of the NewYork State Bar Association ; was Judge Advocate General in 1886. He has been M.P. for Grantham 1880-6, and for the Sowerby Div. of Yorkshire W. R. since 1892, and was Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons 1893-6. He is a J.P. and D.L. for Somerset, and a J.P. for Devon.\emdash Culmhearl, Pitminster, Tamiton ; Brooks' Club SW.; 68, St. George's Square, SW.
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John William Mellor PC DL QC (26 July 1835 \endash 13 October 1911) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons[citation needed] of Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget, MP.
He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the Whistler v Ruskin libel trial.
He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1880 to 1886 and for Sowerby, Yorkshire from 1892 until 1904, when he retired from Parliament. In Parliament, he was Chairman of Ways and Means & Deputy Speaker to Arthur Wellesley Peel from 1893 to 1895, and was a member of the Royal Commissions on Tweed and Solway Fisheries in 1896, on the Water Supply to London in 1897, and of the Committees of Royal Commission Patriotic Fund in 1898.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1886.
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John spouse unknown Caroline PAGET [35475] [MRIN: 1419] on 27 Sep 1860 in Basingford NTT. (Caroline PAGET [35475] was born on 17 Jun 1837 in Ruddington Notts and died on 16 Apr 1900 in Taunton SOM.)