Ludwig Mond

Ludwig Mond FRS (7 March 1839 – 11 December 1909 He founded the Mond Nickel Company to exploit this, and thus was born the Victoria Mine of the Sudbury Basin.

Honours and benefactions Mond supported scientific societies and, with Henry Roscoe, helped to expand the small Lancashire Chemical Society into the nationwide Society of Chemical Industry of which he was elected president in 1888. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891. and to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 18 October 1881, Abroad, he was elected to membership of the German Chemical Society, the Società Reale of Naples, and the . He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Padua, Heidelberg, Manchester and Oxford and was awarded the grand cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Family and personal

Ludwig Mond (right) as a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg, ca. 1856 In October 1866 Mond married his cousin Frida Löwenthal (1847–1923) in her native town of Cologne. They soon moved to England and had two sons, Robert and Alfred, who was later known as the 1st Lord Melchett. In 1880 he took British nationality. While he was establishing his business the family lived at Winnington and in 1884 they moved to London. From the early 1890s on, he spent most of his winters in Rome at his home there. This home, the Palazzo Zuccari, was first leased and then (1904) bought in the name of his wife's friend Henriette Hertz, who developed it into a study centre for the history of art now called Bibliotheca Hertziana. He died in his London home, 'The Poplars', Avenue Road, near Regent's Park. Although he had never practised any religion he was buried with Jewish rites at St Pancras cemetery where his sons erected a mausoleum. His estate was valued at £1 million.