Alfred Moritz Mond
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The Right Honourable The Lord Melchett PC FRS DL |
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| First Commissioner of Works | |
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In office 10 December 1916 – 1 April 1921 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Lewis Vernon Harcourt |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Crawford |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 |
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| 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 Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, England |
| Died |
27 December 1930 (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 the University of Edinburgh 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.
Mond was also involved in politics and sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester from 1906 to 1910, for Swansea from 1910 to 1918 and for Swansea West from 1918 to 1923. He served in the coalition government of David Lloyd George as First Commissioner of Works from 1916 to 1921 and as Minister of Health (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1921 to 1922. He later switched party and represented Carmarthen from 1924 to 1928, initially as a Liberal. Although a supporter of the “New Liberalism” in his early political career and a “vocal proponent of constructive social reform” in the postwar government, Mond became a Conservative in 1926 after falling out with Lloyd George over the former Prime Minister's controversial plans to nationalise agricultural land.
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