Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet
John Mellor Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Baronet, (13 March 1862 – 4 February 1929) was an English lawyer and U.K. He was a talented amateur artist who contributed caricatures to Vanity Fair as Quiz.
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Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet
"Quiz" John Paget Mellor (1862-1929) · Published in Vanity Fair, 25 March 1893, as "Judges" Number 40. Downloaded from · Public domain
- Born
- Sir John Mellor and 1st Baronet was born on 13 March 1862.
- Died
- Sir John Mellor and 1st Baronet died on 4 February 1929.
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- illustrator · caricaturist
- Education
- Trinity College
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John Mellor Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Baronet, (13 March 1862 – 4 February 1929) was an English lawyer and U.K. He was a talented amateur artist who contributed caricatures to Vanity Fair as Quiz.
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Eldest son of John William Mellor and his wife Caroline, 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. He was a director of the Prudential Assurance Company from 1923 until his death in 1929.
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Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet is recorded as illustrator and caricaturist.
Caricature of Sir Henry Charles Burdett KCB (1847-1920). Caption read "Hospitals".
"Quiz" (John Paget Mellor) · Published in Vanity Fair, 14 July 1898, as "Men of the Day" Number 718. Downloaded from http: id=1931
Judges No.29: Caricature of The Hon Sir CE Pollock. Caption reads: "One of the Family"
"Quiz" John Paget Mellor (1862-1929) · Vanity Fair, 9 August 1890 Digitised version from: University of Virginia Fine Arts Library
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1862
Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet born.
1929
Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet died.
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