Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet (born 23 March 1950) is a British baronet, historian and businessman.

Biography

He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of Hamburg, whom he succeeded in 2006. He was educated at Downside School, Trinity College, Cambridge (senior scholar), and Grenoble University. He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company and a Companion of the Guild of St George. He has owned the Tudor manor house at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire with its associated estate since 1974, where he has opened the house to the public. He was co-founder of Mander Portman Woodward in 1973, a group of independent sixth-form colleges based in London, and of Sutton Publishing in Gloucester. He has acted as a company director of a number of companies in the UK and Spain, and served as founder chairman of The Gloucestershire County History Trust (2010) and the Gloucestershire Care Partnership (2006), and as a trustee of the Orders of St John Care Trust and the Woodchester Mansion Trust among many charitable and voluntary organisations. He is the author of Varnished Leaves, a history of the Mander family (2004), Country Houses of the Cotswolds (Aurum Press, 2008; Rizzoli, 2009, reprinted 2016), and of a personal memoir, Owls among Ruins (2022). He has contributed articles and reviews, principally on art and architectural history, to academic journals, newspapers and magazines. Mander briefly appeared in the 2017 film Phantom Thread as Lord Baltimore. The Trouble with Home, a documentary film about the life of the family at Owlpen Manor, was made for HTV West and screened in July 2002.

Selected publications

Family

Mander married Karin Margareta, younger daughter of Gustav Arne Norin, of Bromma, Sweden, on 24 June 1972. They have five children:

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