Sir Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet[1] (22 September 1921 – 9 August 2006) was an industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer.
After officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in World War II, serving as a captain in North Africa and Italy,[2] where, following the Salerno landings, he was gravely wounded in the fierce fighting at Calabritto on the slopes of Monte Camino, in October 1943.
[3] From 1945, he was a director of Mander Brothers, the family paint, property and inks conglomerate, founded in Wolverhampton in 1773.
He also developed a township for 11,500 people at Perton outside Wolverhampton on the family agricultural estate, which had been requisitioned as an airfield during World War II.
[9] Charles Marcus Mander married Maria Dolores, daughter of Alfred Edmund Brödermann, a banker of Hamburg,[10] on 24 November 1945, by whom he had three children:[11][12]