910 Frederick Mappin

Constituency  : East  Retford  1880-85,  Hallamshire  1885 -1905

Frederick  made  it  a  double  triumph  for  the  Liberals  in  East  Retford.

Frederick  was the  son  of  a  cutlery  merchant. He  ran  the  family  business  after  his  father's  death. In  1851  he  left  the  firm  after  a  dispute  with  his  brother and  bought  himself  a  steelworks. He  served  on  Sheffield  Town  Council  in  the  1850s. He  was  a  director  of  the  Sheffield  Gas  and  Light  Company  and  the  Midland  Railway. He  was  mayor  of  Sheffield  in  1877  and  supported  the  creation  of  Sheffield  Central  Technical  School. He  began  life  as  a  Congregationalist  but  gradually gravitated  to  Anglicanism.

Many  of  Frederick's  parliamentary  interventions  e.g.  on  ordnance  and  railway  matters  could  be  described  as  self-interested. Frederick  generally  preferred  to  write  letters  rather  than  make  public  speeches.

Frederick  was  a  Whig, an  opponent  of  municipalisation  and  socialistic  policies. He  was  often  critical  of  trade  unions  but  obviously  managed  to  retain  the  support  of  a  mining  constituency. He  was  unopposed  in  1886  and  1892.

Frederick  became  a  baronet  in  1886.  He  was  a  keen  art  collector.

Frederick  became  the  first  Pro  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Sheffield.

He  died  in  1910  aged  89  having  recently  had  an  operation  to  his throat..