| Authorised form of name | Mond; Alfred Moritz (1868 - 1930); 1st Baron Melchett; industrialist, financier, and politician |
| Dates | 1868 - 1930 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Farnworth, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 23 October 1868 |
| Place of death | His house in Lowndes Square, London, England |
| Date of death | 27/12/1930 |
| Occupation | Industrialist; Financier; Politician |
| Activity | Education: Cheltenham College; St. John's College, Cambridge; Edinburgh University; Inner Temple.
Career:
Joined his father’s business Brunner Mond & Company as director, later managing director (1894); managing director of his father’s other company, the Mond Nickel Company; director of the International Nickel Corporation of Canada, the Westminster Bank and the Industrial Finance Investment Corporation; merged four companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries and became its first chairman (1926); Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester (1906-1910); for Swansea (1910-1918); for Swansea West (1918-1923); served as Firs Commissioner of Works in coalition government of David Lloyd George (1916-1921); Minster of Health (1921-1922); lost his seat in the general election (1923); returned to Parliament as a Liberal for Carmarthen via by-election (1924-1928); became a Conservative following disputes with Lloyd George (1926).
Honours:
Bt 1910; Baron 1928 |
| Membership category | Statute 12 |
| Date of election | 21/06/1928 |
| Age at election | 60 |
| Proposer | Francis Arthur Bather; Charles Tate Regan; Grafton Elliot Smith; Archibald Edward Garrod; Edgar Douglas Adrian; Albert Charles Seward; John Charles Grant Ledingham |
| Ernest Rutherford; James Hopwood Jeans; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Francis William Aston; Frederick Alexander Lindemann; Thomas Edward Stanton; Arthur Lapworth; James Walker |
| Relationships | Parents: Ludwig Mond (FRS 1891) and Frida daughter of Adolph Meyer Löwenthal, of Cologne, a cousin of his father .
Siblings: Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (FRS 1938)
Spouse: Violet Florence Mabel, daughter of James Henry Goetze, coffee merchant, of Mincing Lane, London (1894).
Children: Henry Ludwig. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1931 vol 131 pp ii-v, plate, signed by E F A |
| Code | NA1070 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1928/17 | Mond, Alfred Moritz, 1st Baron Melchett: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/3/447 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society | 12 June 1889 |
| NLB/57/324 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. Russell Esq. HM [His Majesty's] Office of Works | 16 October 1919 |
| NLB/57/322 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary [Sheffield Airey Neave, CME, OBE], the Entomological Society | 16 October 1919 |
| NLB/57/360 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr [Sheffield Airey] Neave [CMG OBE] | 25 October 1919 |
| NLB/57/273 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred [Moritz] Mond [ 1st Baron Melchett ], FRS, Chief Commissioner of Works | 1 October 1919 |
| NLB/72/732 | Copy letter from Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Melchett [Alfred Moritz Mond], FRS | 27 March 1930 |
| NLB/73/220 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Imperial Chemical Industries. | 11 March 1931 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| MC/34/57 | Letter from [Sheffield Airey] Neave, Honorary Secretary, Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 89 Queen's Gate, S.W.7., to Mr [William Bate] Hardy | 18 October 1919 |
| MC/34/58 | Letter from [Sheffield Airey] Neave, Honorary Secretary, Entomological Society of London, 88 Queen's Gate, S.W.7., to [William Bate] Hardy, [Royal Society] | 22 October 1919 |