1-page autograph letter. Sent from 14 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London.
Dated 1898.
Written to "Dear Sir" (Edward Gully, The Speakers Secretary, House of Commons)
Requesting a ticket for William Gladstone's funeral.
Sir Sigismund Ferdinand Mendl KBE (1866 – 1945) British Liberal Party politician and businessman.
Mendl was born in Kensington, the son of Czech-born grain importer and shipowner Ferdinand and Jeanette Rachel Mendl. Educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford, graduating with second-class honours in Jurisprudence, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Mendl was a grain importer, like his father, and served as president of the London Corn Trade Association, and on the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies. Member of the War Office Advisory Committee on Army Contracts. First chair of Decca Records. Liberal MP for Plymouth.
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