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See also:MUNDELLA, See also:ANTHONY See also:JOHN (1825-1897) , See also:English educational and See also:industrial reformer, of See also:Italian extraction, was See also:born at See also:Leicester in 1825. After a few years spent at an elementary school, he was apprenticed to a hosier at the See also:age of eleven; He afterwards became successful in business in See also:Nottingham, filled several civic offices, and was known for his philanthropy. He was See also:sheriff of Nottingham in 1853, and in 1859 organized the first courts of See also:arbitration for the See also:settlement of disputes between masters and men. In See also:November 1868 he was returned to See also:parliament for See also:Sheffield as an advanced Liberal. He represented that See also:constituency until November 1885, when he was returned for the Brightside See also:division of Sheffield, which he continued to represent until his See also:death. In the See also:Gladstone See also:ministry of 188o Mundella was See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:council, and shortly after-wards was nominated See also:fourth charity See also:commissioner for See also:England and See also:Wales. In See also:February 1886 he was appointed president of the See also:board of See also:trade, with a seat in the See also:cabinet, and was sworn a member of the privy council. In See also:August 1892, when the Liberals again came into See also:power, Mundella was again appointed president of the hoard of trade, and he continued in this position until 1804, when he resigned See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. His resignation was brought about by his connexion with a See also:financial See also:company which went into See also:liquidation in circumstances calling for the See also:official intervention of the board of trade. However See also:innocent his own connexion with the company was, it involved him in unpleasant public discussion, and his position became untenable. Having made a See also:close study of the educational systems of See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland, Mundella was an See also:early See also:advocate of compulsory See also:education in England. He rendered valuable service in connexion with the Elementary Education See also:Act of 1870, and the educational See also:code of 1882, which became known as the " Mundella. Code," marked a new departure in the regulation of public elementary See also:schools and the conditions of the Governmentgrants. To his initiative was chiefly due the Factory Act of 1875, which established a ten-See also:hours See also:day for See also:women and See also:children in textile factories; and the See also:Conspiracy Act, which removed certain restrictions on trade unions. It was he also who established the labour See also:department of the board of trade and founded the Labour See also:Gazette. He introduced and passed bills for the better See also:protection of women and children in brickyards and for the See also:limitation of their labours in factories; and he effected substantial improvements in the Mines Regulation See also:Bill, and was the author of much other useful legislation. In recognition of his efforts, a See also:marble bust of himself, by See also:Boehm, subscribed for by 8o,000 factory workers, chiefly women and children, was presented to Mrs Mundella. He died in See also:London on the 21st of See also:July 1897.
End of Article: MUNDELLA, ANTHONY JOHN (1825-1897)
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