Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet

Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Baronet KCB (13 March 1862 – 4 February 1929) was an English lawyer and U.K. Treasury Solicitor. He was a talented amateur artist[1] who contributed caricatures to Vanity Fair as Quiz.

Biography

Eldest son of John William Mellor and his wife Caroline,[2] John Paget Mellor was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B. 1884). He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1883 and called to the bar in 1886, practising on the Midland Circuit. Mellor was Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury in 1894–1899 and Solicitor to the Treasury, King's Proctor, and Procurator General between 1909 and 1923. After being made C.B. in 1905 and K.C.B. in 1911, he was created Baronet in 1924.[3] He was a director of the Prudential Assurance Company from 1923[4] until his death in 1929.

References
  1. "Portrait Drawings by Sir John Mellor". The British Museum Quarterly. 5 (2): 66–67. September 1930. doi:10.2307/4421199. JSTOR 4421199.
  2. "MELLOR, John Paget". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1209.
  3. "Mellor, John Paget (MLR880JP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. Dennett, Laurie (1998). A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential. p. 238.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart		 HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
1909–1923		 Succeeded by
Clive Lawrence
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
New creation		 Baronet
(of Culmhead, Somerset)
1924–1929		 Succeeded by
John Serocold Paget Mellor

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