Career
Ironmonger built up a very successful business manufacturing rope, first at Cock Street then a larger site at Great Brickkiln Street, now the Baynell Building. carried on for two further generations until it finally went into liquidation in 1902. Provincial telephone pioneer
A Liberal supporter, Ironmonger was appointed Chief Magistrate in 1857, served as a governor for the Wolverhampton Grammar School and president of the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce. He twice served as Mayor of Wolverhampton, 1857—1858 and 1868—1869.
He presented a stained glass window by Ward and Hughes of London, in 1882.
He also paid for the encaustic tiling around the font. Ironmonger was born c. 1809 in London, England, and orphaned at 18 years of age, when his father, ropemaker Aaron Ironmonger, died in 1927.
They had two daughters. He died in Graisley, Wolverhampton, in 1887, after a long illness.
