Baron Melchett, of Landford in the County of Southampton

Hampshire

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 5 June 1928 for Sir Alfred Mond, 1st Baronet

Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett PC, FRS , known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician...

, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries

Imperial Chemical Industries

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 and a former First Commissioner of Works

First Commissioner of Works

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 and Minister of Health

Secretary of State for Health

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. He had already been created a Baronet, of Hartford Hill in Great Budworth in the County of Chester, on 8 July 1910. He 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 titles are held by the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1973. He held political office under James Callaghan

James Callaghan

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...

 in the late 1970s and was later Executive Director of Greenpeace UK

Greenpeace

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.

Ludwig Mond

Ludwig Mond

Dr Ludwig Mond , was a German-born chemist and industrialist who took British nationality.-Education and career:...

, father of the first Baron, was an industrialist.

Barons Melchett (1928)

• Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
  Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
  Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett PC, FRS , known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician...
  
   (1868–1930)
• Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett
  Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett
  Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett was a British politician, industrialist and financier.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1898–1949)
• Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett (1925–1973)
• Peter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
  Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
  Peter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett , son of the British Steel Corporation Chairman Sir Julian Mond and Sonia Melchett , was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read Law...
  
  (b. 1948)

There is no heir to the titles.