Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett (9 January 1925 – 15 June 1973''The Times'', 16 June 1973) was an English

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Early life

Julian Mond was the younger son of

Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (10 May 1898 – 22 January 1949) was a British politician, industrialist and financier. Early life and education Henry Mond was born in London, the only son of Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and his wif ...

and Gwen Wilson. He was educated at

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and rather than going to university joined the

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in 1942. Here he served in the

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and on the Russian

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s.Greenaway, Frank, (2004) 'Mond family ( 1867-1973)', ''

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Retrieved 9 March 2007. His elder brother, Lieutenant The Honourable Derek John Henry Mond, was serving on HMS Philante when he was killed in a flying accident near

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on 30 April 1945. Thus on their father's death in 1949, Julian succeeded as 3rd Baron Melchett of Landford in the County of

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and 3rd Baronet of Hartford Hill in Great Budworth in the County of

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Business career

After leaving the armed forces, Melchett joined Air Contractors Ltd, a subsidiary of the merchant bank M. Samuel & Co. A year later in 1948, supported by the bank, he founded a farming company based in

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, British Field Products Limited, which specialised in grass-drying and animal feedstuffs. Melchett soon afterwards joined the merchant bankers M. Samuel & Co. This company merged with Philip Hill, Higginson and Erlanger Ltd to form Hill Samuel & Co. Limited and Melchett became director in charge of the banking and overseas departments. He was also a director of the

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and of the Anglo-American Shipping Co Ltd. He was an adviser to the

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, a member of the council of administration of the

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and on the councils of the

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and the

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. In 1966,

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asked him to be chairman of a committee to plan the

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of the British steel industry, and from that time until his death he was effectively the chairman of what became the

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. This was formed from fourteen major iron and steel companies and other smaller ones who together employed more than a quarter of a million workers.

Personal and family

Melchett married Sonia Elizabeth Graham in 1947. They had one son, Peter Robert Henry Mond, and two daughters, ''

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'' Kerena Ann Mond and ''

''Pandora Shelley Mond. For most of their married life they lived on

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in Chelsea, and on a farm, Courtyard, at Ringstead in

. They built a villa, Casa Melchett, near Formentor in

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and used to go for family holidays there. Lord Melchett died while on holiday there in June 1973 and was buried in the family

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. A memorial service was held for him in

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. His

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was valued at slightly over £310,000.

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Early life

Business career

Personal and family

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