931 John Mellor

Constituency : Grantham  1880-6,  Sowerby  1892-1904

John   was  one  of  two  victorious  Liberals  at   Grantham   where  the  Tories  had  held  one  of  the  seats.

John  was  a  judge's  son  from  Devonshire. He  was  educated  at  Cambridge. He  married  the  daughter  of  Charles  Paget  former  MP  for  Nottingham. He  became  a  barrister  in  1860  and  in  1878  was  involved  in  the  Whistler  v  Ruskin libel  trial.

Gladstone  made  John  Judge  Advocate  General  in  1886.

John  was  Deputy  Speaker  to  Arthur  Peel  from  1893  to  1895. He  also  sat  on  a  number  of  minor  Royal  Commissions.

John  retired  from  the  Commons  in  1904. He  died  in  1911  aged  76.