Geoffrey Mander

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander KB, was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers in Wolverhampton, England, an art collector and radical parliamentarian.He was the elder son of Theodore Mander, of a cadet branch of the prominent Mander family of Midland industrialists and public servants. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, served in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He entered the House of Commons as the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East at the general election in May 1929. He was a Liberal specialist on foreign policy between the wars, and was one of the first to take a strong stand against Appeasement of the fascist dictators, and was a crusader on behalf of the League of Nations. During World War II, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Secretary of State for Air