Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet

Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Baronet, KCB (13 March 1862 – 4 February 1929) was an English lawyer and U.K. Treasury Solicitor.

He was a talented amateur artist[1] who contributed caricatures to Vanity Fair as Quiz.

Eldest son of John William Mellor and his wife Caroline,[2] John Paget Mellor was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.

He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1883 and called to the bar in 1886, practising on the Midland Circuit.

[3] He was a director of the Prudential Assurance Company from 1923[4] until his death in 1929.