[1st Bart.]. British politician, born at Farnworth, near Widnes, Lancashire, on the 23rd of October 1868, the son of the famous chemist Ludwig Mond. He was educated at Cheltenham and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and afterwards at Edinburgh University. In 1894 he was called to the bar, and afterwards joined the North Wales and Chester circuit. He entered the firm of Brunner, Mond & Co., becoming a director in 1895, and also became chairman of the Mond Nickel Co. and a director of the South Staffordshire Mond Gas Co. and various other companies. He was elected to Parliament in 1906 as Liberal member for Chester, losing his seat in 1910, but the same year was elected for Swansea and created a baronet. On the formation of Mr. Lloyd George’s Ministry in 1916 he became First Commissioner of Works, and in 1921 he became Minister of Health. Sir Alfred Mond was in 1908 chairman of the chemical industries section of the Franco-British exhibition. He published many articles on the alkali trade in scientific and economic journals, besides a volume of essays, Questions of To-day and To-morrow (1912). His wife Violet, daughter of J. H. Goetze, was well known in society, and was created D.B.E. for her work during the war; and their daughter Eva Violet married in 1914 Visct. Erleigh, eldest son of Lord Reading.
