Nicholas Mander

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, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

He has lived at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire since 1974, where he manages the historic estate. He was co-founder of Mander Portman Woodward, a group of independent sixth-form colleges based in London, and of Sutton Publishing in Gloucester. He is the author of Varnished Leaves, a history of the Mander family (2004), and Country Houses of the Cotswolds (Aurum Press, 2008; Rizzoli, 2009). He has served as a company director of a number of companies in the UK and Spain, and is involved in many charitable and voluntary organisations.

Sir Nicholas Mander briefly appeared in the 2017 film Phantom Thread as Lord Baltimore.

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

• Charles Marcus Septimus Gustav Mander (born 1975), heir apparent to the baronetcy, barrister of the Middle Temple. He married Claire Wylie, by whom he has one son and three daughters.
• Benedict Edward Arthur Mander (born 1977), journalist with the Financial Times. He married Valentina Dorronsoro of Caracas, Venezuela and has two sons.
• Hugo Richard Theodore (born 1981). He married Ciara Campfield and has two sons and one daughter.
• Fabian Edmund Quintin (born 1987). He married Amy Koller and has one daughter.
• Sarra Maryam (born 1973). She married Stephen Earl and has two sons and one daughter.

• Mander family
• Mander Baronets

• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed), The History of Mander Brothers (Wolverhampton, n.d. [1955])
• C. Nicholas Mander, Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950 (Owlpen Press, 2004)
• Burke's Peerage and Baronetage

• Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander
• Brief history of the Mander family
• Mander family genealogy
• Mander Brothers