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chiefly women and children, in grateful acknowledgement of her husband's services". It was presented to Mary
Mundella at a ceremony in Manchester in August 1884, ten years after the Factory Act had passed. The bust remained in the family until some time after 1938 when it was presented to the Nottingham School Board for display in the Mundella Grammar School. When this school closed in 1985 the bust passed to Roland Green School and then The Nottingham Emmanuel School. It was then taken into the care of a group of former students of Nottingham Grammar School, who in 2009 had it cleaned and loaned it to the Bromley House Library, Nottingham where it is now displayed.
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suspicious employers and with powerful trade unionists, and reconcile the penurious framework-knitters with the comparatively well-paid and skilled factory workers. He proposed that the workers should have the wages they demanded and also that a board of arbitration (the
Nottingham Board of Arbitration and Conciliation for the Hosiery Trade) composed of both employers and workers should be established to prevent further strikes by fixing the price for handwork and preventing disputes by constant conference between both sides. The essence was that prevention of strife was better than subsequent remedy.
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firm experimented seriously and secretly with machinery driven by steam power. Mundella was not technically minded, though his experience at Harris's with mechanical experimentation helped to form his abiding interest and fascination in new steam-powered hosiery-making machinery. He was one of the first industrialists in the
Midlands to realise that steam power was something far more than a means to great wealth. He believed that it could be "so applied and developed as to lift the mass of workers out of serfdom".
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short illness on 14 December 1890. Their marriage was described as "outstandingly happy" and "blissful" and
Mundella was said to have been "inconsolable" at his wife's death. "She was loved and honoured in an extraordinary degree by all from the highest to the humblest," Mundella wrote to his sister Theresa. "What a romance it all seems, Alas! What a terrible drama for me!" His manner after his bereavement was said to have become sharper and more intolerant, as observed by another MP in the House of Commons.
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National Association for the Promotion of Technical Education. The association became a force behind educational development, including secondary as well as technical education. Mundella also presided over the new National Education Association formed to promote a "free progressive system of national education, publicly controlled and free from sectarian interest" by publicising and advancing the School Board system and undermining denominational and private schools.
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frontbench. From that position, despite his age, he continued his fight for his favoured causes. He strongly opposed the education bills of 1896 and 1897 which he saw as destructive of his education policy, and he complained that the compulsory clauses of his education Act were scarcely enforced so that nearly one-fifth of the potential school population was absent. The result, he pointed out, was widespread illiteracy among those of school-leaving age.
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Gladstone and Rosebery (the latter insisting that it was a "source of grief and weakness" to the government to be deprived of his "great" services), and hundreds of resolutions of sympathy from workers all over the country reached him, thanking him for his life-long services to labour. He was not to return to ministerial power, and served on the backbenches until the general election of 1895.
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code to operate. Mundella improved the inspection of schools, including employing some women inspectors, and insisting that the health and mental capacity of children should be taken into consideration when examining their learning progress. He also arranged beneficial change in teacher training. There were accusations that the strictness of the code was harsh and was causing children to overwork. To this the medical journal
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Mundella introduced his railway and canal traffic bill, which would hand control over the railways to the Board of Trade, including the power to enforce reductions in charges. Mundella met vehement opposition from the railway companies and their shareholders, who were fearful that there would be a fall in their profits of up to 50 per cent and a destruction of the value of railway property.
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paying particular attention to the clauses restricting the working hours of women and children. He continued his campaign for fewer hours for women and children with the introduction of a nine-hours factory bill in 1872 but it made slow progress and in the summer of 1873, due to opposition from manufacturers, it was withdrawn.
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Victoria sent a wreath, and she and the Prince of Wales were represented amongst a very large number of male and female mourners. The church was full and later congregants were forced to assemble outside. It was noted that an unusually large number of working men had come to pay their respects to
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Mundella had a striking presence, being tall and thin and bent at the shoulders with a dark complexion, a prominent hooked nose and a flowing beard. Easily recognisable, he was reported to be a familiar figure in London. In character he was described as warm, impulsive, enthusiastic, and optimistic,
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A wide stone in a combination of classical styles and Arts and Crafts decoration was erected over the tomb. To
Mundella's name was added the inscription: "Loving knowledge for its own sake, he strove to diffuse it among his countrymen. He laboured for industrial peace, and the welfare of the children
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In 1890 Mundella became chairman of the Trade and
Treaties Committee, responsible for keeping the Board of Trade informed on expiring treaties and new tariffs and duties. In 1891 and 1892, on the urging of Gladstone, he became an opposition frontbench representative on the Royal Commission on Labour.
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of the 1860s which in ports and garrison towns subjected female prostitutes, and those suspected of being such, to arrest, inspection, and (if they were found to be infected) incarceration for up to one year, while no provision was made for the examination of their male customers. He also pressed for
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Mundella's principle of conciliation was not entirely original; other such boards of conciliation or arbitration had been set up, mostly successfully, in a few other trades but none of them had been established in an industry as antagonistic and complex with technological change as the hosiery trade.
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There was a setback in 1859 when Hine & Mundella's factory was damaged by fire, but it was soon rebuilt and returned to operation with the advantage of newer and more powerful machines, in large part paid for by the company's insurers. Hine and Mundella continued to prosper. They opened factories
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of a large warehouse set up by another hosiery manufacturing business in Leicester, Harris & Hamel. Richard Harris was a prominent Liberal and Chartist in the city. Mundella prospered and, while still eighteen, he married. He worked for Harris for three years, until he was 22, and while there the
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in 1886 and from 1892 to 1894. As education minister he established universal compulsory education in Britain and played the major part in building the state education system. At the Board of Trade he was instrumental in the reduction of working hours and the raising of minimum ages in the employment
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There had long been disputation over the matter of railway freight charges, with the railway companies' trade and agricultural customers implacably opposed to the high prices charged for the movement of goods. As a means to secure a just and equitable re-assessment of the charges throughout Britain,
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Mundella's main concerns on joining the House were trade union reform and the need for free, compulsory schooling and for technical training. Trade unionism had no greater friend than Mundella. He was a believer in the right of working men and women to combine to protect their interests, and much of
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Mary Mundella nΓ©e Smith was described as "a woman of lofty mind and great determination" and shared her husband's literary and artistic sympathies. Her "quiet, clever criticisms" were said to delight her guests and she was credited with an "unselfish, gentle, and sunny disposition" She died after a
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Mundella was highly respected during his long period in Victorian Liberal politics, achieving elevation to the cabinet and attaining the distinction of becoming known as a statesman. It has been argued that his was "the most productive mind in late Victorian England at work in the kindred fields of
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Mundella wrote to his sister Theresa: "I was received with loud cheering when I entered the House, when I rose to address it, and the loudest from all sides when I sat down. Men crowded round me all night to shake hands with me, and all my colleagues said I had done it so admirably and with so much
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They were further angered by Mundella's introduction of a railway regulation bill which sought to impose better braking and other safety devices. Opposition to the railway and canal traffic bill rode on the back of the then widespread and equally vehement opposition in the House to Irish home rule.
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received his name from the prime minister she described him in her diary as "Mr. Mundella (one of the most violent radicals)β. She wrote that on disapprovingly remarking to Gladstone about Mundella's appointment "Mr. Gladstone praised him very much, saying he was a very religious man, very much for
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Mundella's long-established interest in arbitration resulted in 1872 in his Arbitration (Masters and Workmen) Act (commonly known as Mundella's Act) which made voluntary agreements between managers and workers mutually binding. In the same year he aided the passage of the Coal Mines Regulation Act,
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steel industry led to the 1867 Royal Commission on Trade Unions. Mundella showed the commission that unions could play a positive part in industrial relations, and that working men could be trusted. In 1868 he was invited to address a joint meeting in Sheffield of the organised trades and the local
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Aside from local political action, Mundella's business experience showed him that progress in industry depended on reciprocal understanding between workers and employers, and that progress generally required significant improvements in the nation's education system, including technical training. He
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Mundella's short period in charge of the Board of Trade ended on 30 July 1886 and in the general election in August the Conservatives regained power. From the opposition frontbench Mundella again campaigned for increased technical education among working people. With others, he was instrumental in
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Mundella's educational code of 1882, which became known as the "Mundella Code," marked a new departure in the regulation of public elementary schools, their curricula and how they were taught, and the conditions under which government grants were made. By 1883 money was made available to allow the
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Mundella had made a success out of the business. When he joined Hine & Co in 1848 the annual turnover was Β£18,000 (equivalent to Β£2,282,772 in 2023); when he left the firm in 1873 (finding it impossible to live in London as an MP and manage a business in Nottingham) the annual turnover was
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Mundella built large new premises for the company in 1851, the first steam-operated hosiery factory in Nottingham. It had wide and spacious workrooms, was lit entirely by daylight and gas jets, and had the finest machinery. By 1857 Hine and Mundella were employing 4,000 workers who were well paid,
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Mundella then set in motion the reorganisation of technical education. He had always taken an interest in higher and technical education, as well as in art schools and other forms of art culture, and they had invariably secured his sympathy and aid. As his first move in higher education, Mundella
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majority of 116. With his evident confidence, the respect in which he was held as a pioneer of industrial arbitration and as an expert on social matters, combined with the early perception that he was a hard worker, he immediately found himself to be one of the most highly regarded MPs of the new
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hit Nottingham's hosiery business. The inadequate wages of home framework-knitters compared to those of the factory operatives led to demands for higher pay (although Mundella's employees were not involved). Mundella organised a conference between workers and the employers. He had to contend with
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RA (1834β1890). Working women and children, who had enjoyed the benefit of the Factory Act of 1874 subscribed, mostly in single pennies, to a tribute to Mundella and his wife. It took the form of the bust by Boehm and bears the inscription: "Presented to Mrs. Mundella by 80,000 factory workers,
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It has been suggested that one reason was the absence of an early biography. It was the intention of Mundella's daughter Maria Theresa to write his biography (which would presumably have been celebratory), but despite working for some years on his archive, collecting contributions and loans from
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Mundella died unexpectedly. On 14 July 1897 his butler found him "prostrated and unconscious" on his bedroom floor. He had suffered a stroke and remained paralysed with a complete loss of speech, and he was barely conscious for eight days. Many people, including Queen Victoria (who telegraphed a
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The general election of July 1895 saw the Conservatives win with an overall majority of 152 and the Liberal Party were back in opposition. Mundella, still esteemed by his constituents, was returned unopposed for Sheffield Brightside, and his colleagues in the House recalled him to the opposition
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states, and was dismayed at the comparative shortcomings of the English system. He knew that achieving the required progress in these matters would involve collective effort and increasing state intervention. At the same time, his business experience, arising from his working past, confirmed his
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At home, Mundella had a regard for domestic comforts and liked to be surrounded by beautiful objects. One of his nieces recalled that he and his family flourished at a time when all things Italian were fashionable and having Italian ancestry was considered most desirable. 16 Elvaston Place, she
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It has been observed that "Mundella made enemies at every stage. He was far too confident and masterful for a quiet life, and in an age of overflowing political activity his mind and methods appeared to stand for the whole menace of radical change." As he grew older the cabinet held him in high
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wrote: "The House felt that here was a good man suffering with adversity. That it was undeserved, had swooped down, and blighted temporarily an honourable career when it seemed to have reached its serener heights, made the calamity none the less hard to bear. Mundella comported himself with the
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There Mundella again faced the railway companies and their shareholders, as the agricultural lobby and businesses were still anxious to see reduced freight charges. Cautious of raising the ire of the railway companies again, in 1893 Mundella set up a committee to look into the charges. He also
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stated that "compulsory education might do for the Saxons, but would never be endured by the Anglo-Saxons". To those organisations and people who maintained that compulsion was un-English Mundella replied that it was "peculiarly English to be content to be in ignorance". Immediately on reaching
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Mundella was also greatly concerned at the employment of children of very young ages, and how their presence at work would make compulsory elementary education impossible. In 1871 he put forward a measure to control the employment of children in the manufacture of bricks and tiles. His move was
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Mundella had already stated that he "did not feel obliged to go on toiling to amass a great fortune, but was justified in giving up commerce to devote himself to political life and his love of beautiful things". He agreed to stand and was formally adopted as a Liberal candidate on 20 July 1868.
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for the rest of his life. Outside school, his mother, with her wide knowledge of English literature, particularly Shakespeare, instilled in his mind a love of the beautiful in nature, in literature, and in art. Because of the family's then abject financial circumstances, when Rebecca Mundella's
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was published in 1951. He made good use of Ms Mundella's copious research in his book, and before its publication in academic papers and a radio broadcast. Mundella is regularly mentioned in volumes recording the Victorian hosiery business, the history of education, and early labour relations.
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on 26 July. It was unusual for St Margaret's in that Mundella's coffin was present, rather than the service being a memorial. The coffin was draped in a pall of Venetian brocade, with a marble statuette of the Madonna and Child and a photograph of Mundella's late wife placed at its head. Queen
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also recognised that very young children could not be properly educated if they were spending their time working in factories. When travelling in continental Europe on business and on personal relaxation, Mundella saw how superior the education systems of other countries were, particularly in
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Encouragement for the freshwater fish Bill had come from Mundella's own Sheffield constituency. The previous twenty years had seen an enormous expansion in the number of anglers. In 1878 Sheffield alone had 211 angling clubs, with 8,000 members, and there was much concern about over-fishing,
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operated by perennially poor framework-knitters in their own homes. He pioneered many changes, including new machines which produced tubular knitting rather than the stocking-frame's straight knit. Mundella had long maintained that the best machines in the hosiery trade were "principally the
1489:(1838β1914). A late portrait photograph of Mundella, seen standing at an entrance to the Houses of Parliament and dated May 1897 (two months before his death). A copy is held by the National Portrait Gallery and another, with greater clarity of detail, by the UK Parliament's digital archive.
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In May 1885 Mundella was able to begin the process of introducing a measure to promote intermediate education in Wales, but on 9 June 1885 Gladstone resigned and as a result Mundella was forced to leave the vice-presidency. His Welsh legislation fell at the dissolution of parliament.
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After Mundella's 1863 success in arbitrating the Nottingham industrial strife he was invited by many English and Welsh towns to expound on the system of arbitration and to help settle a number of labour conflicts. Outbreaks of violence, including explosions and murders, in the
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Mundella was the first to prove that the principle worked in an industry of much complexity with the aim of, rather than fighting fires, preventing fires starting in the first place. It was hailed as a success and was adopted not only in other parts of the country, but also in
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nearby. While he had made money in business, Mundella had never been particularly rich. The crash of the New Zealand company which had been the cause of his resignation left him in financial difficulties, but on the recommendation of Lord Rosebery he was awarded an annual
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on 9 December 1871 as Number 99 in their series of "Portraits of Statesmen". It is entitled "Education and Arbitration". Reproductions were available for sale and there are consequently many copies in private hands and in public collections, including those of the UK
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In 1877 Mundella sponsored a bill to abolish the property qualification for standing for local office, pointing out that 80 to 90 per cent of the voters in his constituency were disqualified from being councillors and yet were the first to be pressured by rises in
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From his father, and the exiled Italians who occasionally visited the family home, Mundella acquired at an early age what was described as "a kind of strange unconventional political education". At fifteen he became politically engaged and, inspired by the local
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were paid their wages at the end of a voyage ensured they did not have to linger for long periods in the seaports rather than returning home, thereby reducing prostitution in the ports. A merchant shipping bill was introduced to halt the undermanning of ships.
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others, and making lengthy transcriptions, nothing was published. She died in 1922. Her collected Mundella papers then passed to his granddaughter, Dorothea Benson, Lady Charnwood, who presented them to the University of Sheffield Library in the 1930s.
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on 30 November 1893. It is entitled "On the Terrace, A Political Spectacle: β The Ayes have it β the Noes have it" and it is a group cartoon portrait with Mundella in the right foreground. A copy of it is owned by the National Portrait Gallery in
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Despite Mundella's beneficial influence on education, industry, and the protection of children, after his death in 1897 his name and reputation disappeared from public view and he became mostly a forgotten man of Gladstone's administrations.
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He chaired the section dealing with conditions in the chemical, building, textile, clothing and miscellaneous trades. As such, he was able to institute the appointment of four women inspectors to examine the position of women in industry.
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and his father a Catholic), throughout his political life his looks, his foreign-sounding name, and his artistic individualism in dress encouraged opponents and hostile cartoonists and journalists to indulge in anti-semitic insults.
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In the 1892 general election Mundella retained his seat of Sheffield Brightside with an increased majority and the Liberal Party formed the government. Mundella returned to the cabinet and to the presidency of the Board of Trade.
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Despite Mundella's claim when applying for his Civil List pension in 1894 that he had "insufficient private means", at his death, three years later, his estate was valued at Β£42,619 1s 3d (equivalent to Β£6,108,095 in 2023).
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partly because by attracting good operatives Mundella hoped they would use their intelligence and inventiveness to suggest improvements in the way they worked. Improved conditions, Mundella observed, brought enhanced loyalty.
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Mundella's final utterance in the House, after 3,280 vocal contributions over nearly thirty years as an MP, was a brief interjection in the debate on the second reading of the education (Scotland) bill on 1 July 1897.
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Concerned by the annual returns of railway accidents and deaths furnished by the Board of Trade, Mundella appointed two railway men to inquire into the accidents and their causes, and to find means to increase safety.
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Early in 1893, the Bureau of Labour Statistics which Mundella set up in his first term as trade minister was expanded into a labour department, separate from the Board of Trade. This department published a regular
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As a leading statesman with prominent looks, Mundella can also be identified in many group portraits, photographs, and newspaper and journal illustrations of the late 1800s. Two particular images can be found in
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office Mundella introduced a bill to complete the system of compulsion to attend school, which had not been achieved by previous Acts. The Mundella Act (another Act credited to his name), properly known as the
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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company made advances to sheep-farming colonists in New Zealand and Australia on the security of their land and produce, and helped market that produce in Britain.
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In the short period before the next general election Mundella had little time at the Board of Trade to effect major legislative improvements but he was able to introduce a number of administrative changes.
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Mundella's perennial concern for children also led him to introduce, in 1873, a bill for the protection of children against people who, being in charge of them, had been convicted of violence against them.
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on a frame in their home and was regarded as adept at this work but, nonetheless, she too was poorly paid and after rent for housing and for the lace frame there was invariably little left to live on.
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eyesight worsened and she could no longer work at lacemaking the boy had to be withdrawn from school so that he could earn money to help the family. At nine, he started work in a printing office as a
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commented: "His face wears a somewhat sad and serious expression, and the artist has given him the full measure of his years". The artist was Mundella's own choice. The painting was exhibited at the
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recalled, was full of beautiful Italian things. The house was often crowded with friends, not only politicians, but also many from the world of the arts and literature, business, and journalism.
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esteem but younger politicians were "never quite sure whether he was a rogue or a fool, but they were convinced that he was a bore" because of his determined enthusiasm on a few dominant themes.
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of 1875 established a ten-hour day for women and children in textile factories. It was widely recognised in the textile districts that it was Mundella's efforts which had secured its passing.
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He ensured that consular reports of trade and the trade requirements of different countries of the world should be published and available at a low price instead of being lost among general
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In the general election of 1874, the Liberal Party was defeated, but Mundella continued his parliamentary campaigns from the opposition backbenches and reintroduced his nine-hours bill. The
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In 1888 Mundella introduced a bill for the prevention of cruelty to children. Due to opposition, progress of the bill was slow, with Mundella speaking 65 times in committee. The ensuing
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government, harvesting the fruits of Mundella's three years' hard work on his bill, introduced their own factory bill which was designed to achieve much the same aims. The subsequent
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for its antiquated system for issuing army contracts, and advocated short army and navy service, more volunteers and better organisation. He joined in an attempt to modernise the
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The Liberals returned to power in 1880 with a large majority and Gladstone, recognising the younger man's expertise in the field of education reform, appointed him
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and while still fifteen heard his compositions sung on the streets and at political meetings. At the same age he made his first political speech, in support of the
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which school boards were empowered to make), but he was anxious to take what parliament was willing to give rather than reject it because it was not good enough.
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which had enfranchised a large number of male householders for the first time, Mundella prevailed in Sheffield. He was to represent the seat, and its successor,
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For the next fifteen years Mundella devoted his energy to reinventing the mechanics of a hosiery industry which for the most part relied on old-style mechanical
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scholar and as he grew older he became a teacher, then secretary, and ultimately superintendent of a large, poor Sunday School in Sanvey Gate in Leicester.
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number of times for news) and leading politicians of all shades of opinion, expressed concern. At 1.55 pm on 21 July 1897 he died, at the age of 72.
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of uncertain background, and his wife Rebecca Allsopp of Leicester. At the time of Mundella's birth, his father was a poorly paid trimmer in the
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inventions of working men". Not by his own invention, but by encouraging inventors within the company (many of them loom operators) and sharing
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Legalised Trade Unions, Compulsory Primary Schooling, Enhanced Higher Education β the Legacies of Anthony John Mundella, 1825β1897
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This article is about the industrialist, Liberal MP and cabinet minister, A.J.Mundella. For his nephew Anthony Mundella, see
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department, previously the realm of three different government departments, to look after both sea and inland fisheries.
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religious education, and never said anything offensive". At the same time, Mundella was also appointed the fourth
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pension of Β£1,200 (equivalent to Β£172,593 in 2023) which enabled him to continue to live in Elvaston Place.
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education, industry and labour" and as a result his political achievements in those fields were remarkable.
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and spent two years recuperating. In his absence the firm of Hine & Mundella was converted into a
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Mundellaβs first moves in the House regarding education were strongly to support the passing of the
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cartoonists because of his looks; his morality in business was questioned. But benefitting from the
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to ensure that information about labour was popularised in order to reach the working classes.
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dispute in March 1895 and was intensively occupied as chairman of the committee examining the
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in Nottingham, and after moving to London when he became an MP the family lived, firstly, in
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dignity that commanded the respect of the House. (He) sat down amid cheering on both sides".
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the legal age of sexual intercourse to be raised to 16, since over 25 per cent of those with
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Anthony John Mundella by CoΓ―dΓ© (James Jacques Tissot). A chromolithograph published in
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The Career of A.J.Mundella with Special Reference to his Sheffield Connections
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which gave protection to trade union funds and two years later led to the
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2151:, edited by GE Buckle, (2nd series), iii, 89, John Murray, London, 1932
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school of St Nicholas in Leicester, an establishment maintained by the
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A.J.Mundella 1825β1897 β The Liberal Background to the Labour Movement
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A.J.Mundella 1825β1897 β The Liberal Background to the Labour Movement
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Gladstone also favoured Mundella because of his support for
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ratified the convention between the countries bordering the
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Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education
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by old-established hosiery manufacturers, Hine & Co of
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General Register Office, England and Wales Marriages, 1844
2791:, Michael Davey, PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide, 2020
2348:, Michael Davey, PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide, 2020
1985:"A.J.Mundella and industrial Conciliation", JD Marshall,
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A History of Machine Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacture
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The Surveyor, Engineer, and Architect for the Year 1841
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Mundella enabled three separate maritime reforms. The
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Anthony John Mundella (journalist and educationalist)
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contributions in Parliament by Anthony John Mundella
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in 1852, at the age of 28. In 1856 he was elected a
2762:, "Death of Mr. A. J. Mundella", M.P., 22 July 1897
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British Industrialists: Steel and Hosiery 1850β1950
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884:Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines
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2748:Eminent English Radicals in and Out of Parliament
2077:British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885β1918
1835:Eminent English Radicals in and Out of Parliament
1810:, Death of Mr. A. J. Mundella, M.P., 22 July 1897
1731:, WHG Armytage, Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1951
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2605:Correspondence, Museums Sheffield, 1 March 2020
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778:Conspiracy, and Protection of Property Act 1875
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1969:, William Felkin, Longmans Green, London, 1867
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1078:In 1893 there was a lock-out of miners in the
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2466:, Death of Mr. Mundella, London, 22 July 1897
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1944:"One of Our Pioneers", SK Ratcliffe,
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1396:Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
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2411:"AJ Black, Portrait of AJ Mundella"
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1897:, volume al8, Issue 1β2, April 1948
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2379:"A.J.Mundella by W.H.G.Armytage",
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2089:British Electoral Facts: 1832β1987
2000:"Nottingham Manufacturing Company"
520:Carte de visite of Mundella, c1865
334:Anthony John Mundella was born in
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2370:Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1951
1872:Anthony John Mundella (1825β1897)
1518:Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
1461:Caricature, chromolithograph: by
1452:National Portrait Gallery, London
496:In 1860, a series of strikes and
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3820:Presidents of the Board of Trade
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3009:Presidents of the Board of Trade
2799:Parliament of the United Kingdom
2717:. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
2240:Dictionary of National Biography
2139:, Hawkhurst, Kent, England, 1999
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2960:President of the Board of Trade
2933:President of the Board of Trade
2784:University of Sheffield Library
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307:President of the Board of Trade
77:President of the Board of Trade
2197:Gladstone Letter Book for 1894
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770:Employers and Workmen Act 1875
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841:Lord President of the Council
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699:Elementary Education Act 1870
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3755:British Secretaries of State
839:Despite being junior to the
364:background, he attended the
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2953:Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
2742:The Economic History Review
2713:The Illustrated London News
2002:. knittingtogether.org.uk.
1895:The Economic History Review
1526:The Illustrated London News
1437:James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1340:Fellow of the Royal Society
976:Chancellor of the Exchequer
360:Though from a Catholic and
183:Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
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2556:Life of John Viriamu Jones
2546:, Henry James, 12 May 1897
1201:St Margaret's, Westminster
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2523:Sheffield Daily Telegraph
2521:"Mr.Mundella's Pension",
2445:Sheffield Daily Telegraph
2149:Letters of Queen Victoria
1948:, London, 11 January 1952
1752:Sheffield Daily Telegraph
1211:for transfer by train to
968:Irish Parliamentary Party
649:on 16 February 1869. The
645:and in doing so made his
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1269:Encyclopaedia Britannica
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739:Factory and Workshop Act
726:Contagious Diseases Acts
2857:Constituency abolished
2544:Mundella Correspondence
2476:Nottingham Evening Post
2163:, 4 August 1883, London
2137:The Freshwater Informer
2037:Clark, Gregory (2017).
1467:Sir Leslie Matthew Ward
1456:University of Sheffield
1406:Mundella Grammar School
1170:Opposition frontbencher
1087:North Sea Fisheries Act
1034:(commonly known as the
1022:Opposition frontbencher
964:Charles Stewart Parnell
954:Opposition frontbencher
918:South Kensington Museum
774:Master and Servant Acts
655:William Ewart Gladstone
346:trade. His mother made
299:William Ewart Gladstone
167:William Ewart Gladstone
110:William Ewart Gladstone
3815:Sheriffs of Nottingham
2943:Hon. Frederick Stanley
2850:Charles Stuart-Wortley
2321:, London, 22 July 1897
1946:John O'London's Weekly
1588:agriculture department
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576:Election to parliament
536:in the United States.
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134:Hon. Frederick Stanley
2760:Sheffield Independent
2711:"Search AJ Mundella,
2331:Sheffield Independent
2268:, London, 19 May 1894
1839:Anthony John Mundella
1808:Sheffield Independent
1419:Bust, marble: by Sir
1414:Bromley House Library
1392:Royal Academy of Arts
1381:Arthur Stockdale Cope
1231:Legacy and reputation
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545:sheriff of Nottingham
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2926:Hon. Edward Stanhope
2916:Hon. Edward Stanhope
2899:Lord George Hamilton
2871:Sheffield Brightside
2111:on 28 September 2020
2065:Victorian Nottingham
1448:Houses of Parliament
1296:Thomas Chambers Hine
845:elementary education
680:Trade Union Act 1871
619:Sheffield Brightside
444:Manufacturing career
320:industrial relations
171:The Earl of Rosebery
122:Hon. Edward Stanhope
44:The Right Honourable
3295:Parkinson-Fortescue
2840:John Arthur Roebuck
2808:John Arthur Roebuck
2697:"Mundella Cartoons"
2594:Sheffield Telegraph
2578:Sheffield Telegraph
2525:, 14 September 1895
2464:Westminster Gazette
2413:. mundella.org.uk.
2359:The Mundella Papers
1769:Call Back Yesterday
1487:John Benjamin Stone
1465:, the pseudonym of
1435:, the pseudonym of
1388:Sheffield Telegraph
1374:Mundella likenesses
1344:Sunday School Union
1166:schools in London.
1140:John Benjamin Stone
899:university colleges
882:, establishing the
2891:Political offices
2884:Frederick Maddison
2845:Samuel Danks Waddy
2699:. sheffield.ac.uk.
2615:Nottingham Journal
2596:, 12 December 1894
2288:"Historic Hansard"
2033:Retail Price Index
1421:Joseph Edgar Boehm
1285:Kibworth Beauchamp
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2643:"A J Mundella MP"
2617:,10 December 1898
2576:"London Letter",
1511:Alexander Bassano
886:in October 1881.
819:(in other words,
693:, 9 December 1871
557:Robin Hood Rifles
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