Emile Mond

Emile Moritz Schweich-Mond (1865 – 30 December 1938, London) was a German businessman who mostly worked in England. From 1930 to 1938, he was the honorary treasurer of the Faraday Society.

Early life Emile Mond was born in 1865 in Cologne, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of Leopold Schweich and Philippine Schweich, and initially studied in Paris, where his father was working at the time. He then studied chemistry in Switzerland at the ETH Zurich. He moved to England to work with his uncle, Ludwig Mond at Brunner Mond & Co. From Cheshire he moved to Jamaica with his friend Emile Bucher and founded the West Indies Chemical Works. He then returned to England again to work as an assistant to his uncle. He was on the Board of Brunner Mond & Co. and of Mond Nickel Co. He was chairman of Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co., the South Staffordshire Mond Gas Co., and the Power Gas Co.

Family

He married Angela Primrose Schweich-Mond, née Goetze (March 1871, Marylebone, London – 8 November 1941, Storrington, West Sussex), the youngest child of James Henry Goetze (7 September 1823, Soho, London – September 1877, Marylebone, he is buried at Paddington Old Cemetery, Kilburn) and Rosina Harriett Bentley. Other children are Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett, who married Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, Emile's cousin, and English painter and art patron Sigismund Goetze.

Personal life Emile Mond was created Officier de la Légion d'honneur by the French Government and Officier de l'Ordre de Leopold by the King of the Belgians.

Emile Mond's wife was a musician and held private chamber music concerts. Mr. and Mrs. Mond made their home a centre of hospitality and of the cultured social life of London.