A. J. Mundella
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The Right Honourable A. J. Mundella |
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| President of the Board of Trade | |
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In office 17 February 1886 – 20 July 1886 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Hon. Edward Stanhope |
| Succeeded by | Hon. Frederick Stanley |
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In office 18 August 1892 – 28 May 1894 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Prime Minister |
William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery |
| Preceded by | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt |
| Succeeded by | James Bryce |
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| Born |
28 March 1825 Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Died | 21 July 1897 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
Anthony John Mundella PC (28 March 1825 – 21 July 1897), known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as President of the Board of Trade in 1886 and from 1892 to 1894.
Mundella was born in Leicester, the son of Antonio Mundella, an Italian refugee and his wife Rebecca Allsop of Leicester. He worked in the hosiery trade and became a partner in the firm of Hine and Mundella, manufacturers of Nottingham, Loughborough, and elsewhere. He was Sheriff of Nottingham in 1852. In 1859 Mundella originated and organised the first Courts of Conciliation and Arbitration to settle disputes between capital and labour. He was a J.P. for Middlesex and for Nottingham Borough and was an Alderman, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and president of the Board of Arbitration for Nottingham.
Mundella was elected as Member of Parliament for Sheffield in the 1868 general election. He had been asked to stand by trade unionist William Dronfield, to defend the interests of labour in the wake of the Sheffield Outrages. He served as President of the second day of the first ever Co-operative Congress in 1869. When the Sheffield constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, he was elected as MP for Sheffield Brightside, a seat he held until his death.
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