But such occasional kick-starting has failed to fire the engine of modern-day regard for Mundella’s reputation. He is absent from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and until very recently, Wikipedia’s entry was brief and incomplete. There is no public monument to him. Mundella Grammar School in Nottingham no longer exists. A request in the mid-1980s for the installation of a commemorative blue plaque at Mundella's London home of 16 Elvaston Place was refused by English Heritage. Cope's portrait of Mundella is no longer on public display. The National Portrait Gallery in London has never shown – other than online – any of the Mundella likenesses it holds.