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Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett

The Right Honourable
The Lord Melchett
PC FRS DL
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First Commissioner of Works
In office
10 December 1916 – 1 April 1921
Monarch George V
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by Lewis Vernon Harcourt
Succeeded by The Earl of Crawford
Minister of Health
In office
1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922
Monarch George V
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Preceded by Christopher Addison
Succeeded by Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
Personal details
Born Alfred Moritz Mond
23 October 1868 (1868-10-23)
Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, England
Died 27 December 1930 (1930-12-28) (aged 62)
London
Nationality British
Political party Liberal
Conservative
Spouse(s) Violet Goetze (d. 1945)
Alma mater St. John's College, Cambridge
University of Edinburgh

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL (23 October 1868 – 27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zionist.

Mond was born in Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, England, the younger son of Ludwig Mond, a chemist and industrialist who had emigrated from Germany, and his wife Frieda, née Löwenthal, both of Jewish extraction. He was educated at Cheltenham College and St. John's College, Cambridge, but failed his natural sciences tripos. He then studied law at Edinburgh University and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1894.

Following this he joined his father's business, Brunner Mond & Company as director, later becoming its managing director. He was also managing director of his father's other company the Mond Nickel Company. Other directorships included those of the International Nickel Corporation of Canada, the Westminster Bank and the Industrial Finance Investment Corporation. His major business achievement was in 1926 working to create the merger of four separate companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) one of the world's largest industrial corporations at the time. He became its first chairman.


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