Financier politician Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Henry Mond was born in London, the only son of Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and his wife Violet (née Goetze). He then joined some of his father's businesses, becoming a director of Imperial Chemical Industries and serving as chairman from 1940 to 1947. In the same election his father, Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, lost his seat of Swansea W.
Bachelor of Science, Harvard 1918, Doctor of Medicine 1922.
From 1915 he served in World War I with the South Wales Borderers but was wounded in 1916. He was also a director of the Mond Nickel Company and Barclays Bank. He gained the seat from the sitting Unionist Max Townley in the 1923 general election with a small majority of 467.
He was unable to retain the Isle of Ely at the 1924 general election. Like his father, he later became a Conservative. He then set about restoring the family finances and moved his interests away from politics to economics.
He advocated the evacuation of Jews from Germany to Palestine and supported the formation of an independent state of Palestine as part of the British Commonwealth. He was chairman of the British Agency for Palestine and took an interest in the Maccabean Jewish youth organisation. The elder son, Derek, was killed in a flying accident while he was serving with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1945.
Mond bought and restored Colworth House on the edge of the Bedfordshire village of Sharnbrook and lived there for twelve years. During World War II he made the house available for the recuperation of American nurses and to house Jewish refugees. He sold the house to Unilever in 1947 due to his wife's belief that moving to Florida would restore his health.
Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Gastroenterology (president 1960-1961, chairman trustees 1961-1962). Member American, Massachusetts heart associations, American, Massachusetts diabetes associations, American, Massachusetts medical association, Greater Boston Medical Society. Club: New Century (president 1961-1962) (Boston).
Special research cholesterol and lipids, blood clotting mechanism, chemotherapy in cancer control.
He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Liverpool East Toxteth from 1929 to 1930, when, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the barony becoming the 2nd Baron Melchett.
