Emile Mond

Emile Mond ( -1939)

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1939 Obituary.

EMILE MOND, a nephew of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, died on December 30, 1938, at the age of seventy-three. He received his early education at the College de Sainte Barbe, Paris, and the Lycee Condorcet; at the Polytechnicum, Zurich, where he specialised in chemistry, he took his diploma. He commenced his technical career in England .with Brunner, Mond & Co., but soon left the firm to found the West Indies Chemical Works in Jamaica with Dr. Emile Bucher, of Geneva, his friend and a former fellow-student. Later, he returned to England and became technical assistant to his uncle, specialising in patent work. In course of time he joined the board of Brunner, Mond & Co., Ltd., and the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd.; he became vice-chairman of the latter company. He also held the chairmanships of the South Staffordshire Mond Gas Co., the Power Gas Corporation, Ltd., and Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co., Ltd.

He always retained his early-acquired love of chemistry and took an interest in many branches of modern research; he became honorary treasurer of the Earaday Society in 1930 and of the Chemical Society in 1931. The French Government conferred on him the distinction of Officier de la Legion d’Honneur and the King of the Belgians made him an Officier de I’Ordre de Leopold in recognition of his important work in connection with the Lycees de Londres founded in 1915 to provide educational facilities for French and Belgian refugee children during the Great War. Later he founded the Francis Mond professorship of aeronautical engineering at Cambridge in memory of his son who was killed while flying in France in 1918.

Mr. Mond joined the Iron and Steel Institute in 1907.

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