Anthony John Mundella
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Anthony John Mundella MP, Privy Councillor.
1825 Born in Leicester
1848 Entered partnership Hine and Co, hosiery manufacturers in Nottingham
1868-85 Radical MP Sheffield
1870 Helped achieve the passage of the Education Act through Parliament
1874 Helped passage of Factories' Act
1885-1897 MP for Brightside, Sheffield
1886 President of the Board of Trade; created Labour Department
1891 Visiting Sir Lowthian Bell in East Rounton, Yorkshire[1]
1892-4 President of the Board of Trade
1894 Anthony John Mundella, JP, MP, lived in Nottingham; was member of Mundella and Weston, yarn agents[2]
1895 Privy Councillor; member of the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851[3]
1897 Died in London[4]
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Sources of Information
- Dictionary of National Biography