Edward Montague Nelson

Sir Edward Montague Nelson (5 March 1841 - 4 February 1919) was a businessman and local politician.

The son of George Nelson, a gelatine manufacturer from Warwick, Edward spent most of his working life in London. He was the director of a number of businesses based in the City of London including being chairman and managing director of the Australian Chilling and Freezing Company, the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, Nelson Brothers Limited and the Central Queensland Meat Export Company, chairman of George Nelson, Dale, and Comaony, and a director of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company. He married Mary Wallis, daughter of a doctor from Sussex in 1866.

He lived at Hanger Hill House, Ealing, and took an active part in the local government of the area. He was a justice of the peace for the County of Middlesex and High Sheriff of Middlesex for 1892. As part of the celebrations of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 he was made a Knight Commander of St Michael and St George "for services rendered in connection with the Australasian Colonies, and recognition of his public services".

When Ealing was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1901, he was chosen as the charter mayor.

A Conservative in politics, he unsuccessfully contested his home constituency of Warwick at the 1885 general election.

In retirement he returned to Warwick, and was serving as mayor of that town when he died from a seizure, aged 78.