Emile Mond

Emile Moritz Schweich-Mond (1865, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - 30 December 1938, London) was a German businessman who mostly worked in England. From 1930 to 1938 he was the honorary treasurer of the Faraday Society.

Emile Mond was born in 1865, the son of Leopold Schweich and Philippine Schweich, and initially studied in Paris, where his father was working at the time. He then studied chemistry in Switzerland at the ETH Zurich. He moved to England to work with his uncle, Ludwig Mond at Brunner Mond & Co. From Cheshire he moved to Jamaica with his friend Emile Bucher and founded the West Indies Chemical Works. He then returned to England again to work as an assistant to his uncle. He was on the Board of Brunner Mond & Co. and of Mond Nickel Co. He was chairman of Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co., the South Staffordshire Mond Gas Co., and the Power Gas Co.

He married Angela Primrose Schweich-Mond, nee Goetze (March 1871, Marylebone, London - 8 November 1941, Storrington, West Sussex), the youngest child of James Henry Goetze (7 September 1823, Soho, London - September 1877, Marylebone, he is buried at Paddington Old Cemetery, Kilburn) and Rosina Harriett Bentley. Other children are Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett, who married Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, Emile's cousin, and English painter and art patron Sigismund Goetze.

Emile and Angela Mond had four sons and a daughter:

Francis was killed while flying in France on 15 May 1918: to honor him, Emile Mond established the Francis Mond Professorship of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, the first British chair in that subject. Originally attached to the Special Board for Mathematics, the professorship was assigned on its creation in 1923 to the Special Board for Engineering Studies, and in 1927 to the Faculty of Engineering.

Emile Mond was created Officier de la Legion d'Honneur by the French Government and Officier de l'Ordre de Leopold by the King of the Belgians.

Emile Mond's wife was a talented musician and hold private chamber music concerts. Mr. and Mrs. Mond made their home a centre of the most friendly and generous hospitality and of the most cultured social life of London.

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