MENDEL

Samuel . b. Liverpool 1814; employed in a Manchester warehouse; became one of the leading merchants and shippers in Manchester and known as the Merchant Prince; suffered reverses and retired from busine 1875; built a magnificent residence Manley hall, Whalley Range, sold his furniture etc. there for £18,000 on 15–18 March 1875; sold his pictures for £98,000 at Christies 1875. d. Nightingale lane, Clapham common, Surrey 17 Sep. 1884. Note. —He published between 1870–74 twenty single sheets, giving the exports of cotton goods from London, Liverpool etc. to foreign countries, the first of these is entitled S. Mendel’s Table of exports of plain, coloured and printed cottons from Liverpool and Southampton to river Plate from 1860 to 1869 inclusive. 1870.