John William Mellor

John William Mellor PC DL QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.

For the English soccer player, see Jack Mellor (footballer born 1896).

John William Mellor c1895
John William Mellor 1906

Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1]

In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget, MP.[2]

He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the Whistler v Ruskin libel trial.

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1880–1886 and for Sowerby, Yorkshire from 1892 until 1904, when he retired from Parliament. In Parliament, he was Chairman of Ways and Means & Deputy Speaker to Arthur Wellesley Peel from 1893 to 1895, and was a member of the Royal Commissions on Tweed and Solway Fisheries in 1896, on the Water Supply to London in 1897, and of the Committees of Royal Commission Patriotic Fund in 1898.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1886.

References
  1. "Mellor, John William (MLR853JW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "MELLOR, Rt. Honorable John William". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1209.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Bt
Henry Cust		 Member of Parliament for Grantham
1880–1886
With: Charles Savile Roundell 1880–1885		 Succeeded by
Malcolm Low
Preceded by
Edward Crossley		 Member of Parliament for Sowerby
1892–1904		 Succeeded by
John Sharp Higham


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