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, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 June 1928 for Sir Alfred Mond, 1st Baronet, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and a former

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. He had already been created a Baronet, of Hartford Hill in

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, on 8 July 1910. Mond was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was also a politician and businessman. His second but only surviving son, the third Baron, was a businessman. The latter's son, the fourth Baron, succeeded in 1973. He held political office under James Callaghan in the late 1970s and was later Executive Director of

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Ludwig Mond Ludwig Mond FRS (7 March 1839 – 11 December 1909) was a German-born, British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls. Education and career Ludwig Mond was born ...

, father of the first Baron, was an industrialist.

Barons Melchett (1928)

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett 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 Zio ...

(1868–1930) * Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (1898–1949) * Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett (1925–1973) * Peter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (1948–2018) The barony and baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baron in 2018 because his only son was illegitimate, and under peerage law could not succeed to his father's titles. According to ''

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'' broadcast on BBC Radio on 4 February 2000, Lord Melchett intentionally had his son out of wedlock because he was against the inheritance of privilege.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Melchett 1928 establishments in the United Kingdom 2018 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1928 Noble titles created for UK MPs