Mander Family - Other Members of The Family

Other Members of The Family

• Jane Mander (1877–1949) (descended from the above Henry Mander of Aston Cantlow), was one of the foremost New Zealand novelists of the early twentieth century. Her most successful novels were The Story of a New Zealand River (1920) and Allen Adair (1925). She was the daughter of the Hon. Francis Mander, pioneer sawmiller and owner of The Northern Advocate, a popular newspaper for which she wrote; he was a member of the Parliament of New Zealand and of the Legislative Council.

• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882–1962), was the eldest son of Theodore Mander, the builder of Wightwick Manor. He was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers, an art collector and radical parliamentarian. He was the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East from May 1929 until he lost his seat in the Labour Party landslide at the 1945 general election. He was the Liberal Party specialist on foreign policy between the wars, strongly anti-Appeasement and a crusader on behalf of the League of Nations. He gave Wightwick Manor, with its outstanding collections of Victorian art, to the National Trust in 1937. His wife, Rosalie Grylls, was a biographer of writers and artists of the romantic period and an early authority on William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

• Miles Mander (1888–1946), younger brother of Geoffrey, broke away from the mould of public service and industry, and became a well-known character actor of the Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, and film director, playwright and novelist. He was an early aviator and racing car enthusiast, who spent his 20s in New Zealand farming sheep. He achieved success in films with The First Born which he directed and acted in, and which was based on his own novel and play. He is better remembered for his character portrayals of oily types, many of them upper-crust villains - such as Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1939). In his Hollywood debut, he had portrayed King Louis XIII in the 1935 version of that same Alexandre Dumas, père classic. Other films credits included Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. His first wife was an Indian princess, Princess Prativa Devi, the daughter of the Maharajah Nripendra Narayan of Cooch Behar. His youngest brother Alan married her sister, Princess Sudhira.

• Richard Mander (1950–), son of Theodore Mander, grandson of Miles Mander, Richard was born in New York City November 26, 1950. In 1985 Richard married his now wife Helena Carratala a fashion designer from Spain, and in 1985 the couple gave birth to Theodore C. Mander. After years of experience renovating New York City's top real estate and creating top quality custom furniture, in 2006 Richard and wife Helena developed a private island resort in the Philippines called Mangenguey.

• Theodore C. Mander (1985–), son of Richard Mander, was born in New York City on October 29, 1985. In 2007 Theodore founded NevaeH Jewelry, a fine designer jewelry brand and custom jewelry manufacturer, after studying Gemology and Jewelry Design at the Gemological Institute of America. Theodore married Jazmine Rodriguez on November 18, 2007. On August 27th in 2009 Jazmine gave birth to Miles E. Mander who they named after named after the great grandfather of Theodore. In 2011 Theodore changed the name of his brand to Mander Jewelry to better reflect his heritage and personal style.