Show f I Career Closes r I IVd Q LORD Richest Men LORD DIES IN LONDON N Illness ss Fatal to Political Po Lea Leader r and In Industrial t Magnate te r rr I LONCO D. D Dec bc 27 27 Associated r Press Lord Press Lord the former Sir Sir- Alfr Alfred d Mond Mend o one e of Britain I. I leading ing In industrial financiers died hero here th this afternoon He had been ill III with phlebitis for several we weeks week ks and recently a re relapse to- to lapse laps caused grave gre fears fear that he could not re recover over He Ho He had h d been under the thi conat constant nt care caro of his hili physicians physicians phy phy- at t his hi London home for some time During his his' Illness L lady dy 1 h Is Sir Sir Russell Russell Wilkinson Lord physician cia cian spent much ohis ti time Urne ue at the house Lord T was ono one of Eng- Eng landsi rich richest cst men men and had given large largo slims nims of f money In conn connection with the establishment of the tho JewIsh Jewish Jew Jew- ish homeland in Palestine He lIe was chairman of ot tho the Imperial Chemical Chemical the largest chemical concern con con- largest ch concern concern con con- cern in Great creat Britain with a capital capital capi capi- tal of ot pounds approximately approximately and was a 1 di director director dl- dl rector and and officer in a a. dozen other financial institutions FORCE FORCE IN POLITICS He Ho was Ion long a 1 force in British politics and was minister of health in in the tho Lloyd George war war cabinet Later ho he bolted the tho liberals am and Joined the conservative aUve party y Bufor But Bu for lor hi his death ho ha probably would have o been appointed to a a. high post poet If It tho the conservatives gained power In ip tho next elections s. s Lord before coro his eleva o elevation tion Uon to the peerage In 1923 1928 was wan Sir Alfred Alfred- Mond world nickel king and head of tho ho largest chemical manufacturing organization in tho the British empire emire Ho He also aso w was s a ah an Important figure in English inglish politics and leader in Jewry although he and hi his 1116 wre communicants ts of ot the Church of t Enit England nd But like tho great Benjamin Disraeli who vho b became amo Lord Lora Beaconsfield under Queen Victoria Lordi 1 was proud L of ot his Jewish ancestry and ff tic time nn and l money I o 5 V I I LORD DIES IN LONDON Continued from page pago 1 to th tho cause of the Jewish national national na homo home In Palestine Under tho tile World wa war premiershIp premiership premier premier- ship of ot David Lloyd Llod George Sir Alfred Mond was waa first commissioner commission commission- er cr of at works and later minister of ol health For years years' be he was a a 0 close political confidant and adviser atthe of ol the dynamic Welshman nan but the a al alliance al liance waa wu dl dissolved early carlY In 1926 when 1 Mond Nond thi lIber liberal l party and became an adherent of oe tho the conservatives because he ho disagreed dis- dis disagreed dis agreed with his leaders leader's land na nationalization pa- pa scheme The Tho break caused one of or the tho most vivid political sensations of at the postwar era In England Lloyd George turn turning In upon his former Cormer follower follower follower fol fol- fol- fol lower with abusive criticism that caused tho the London Times to denounce denounce de de- de- de flounce tho the action of or the former primo minister as as a aS gross and unpardonable un un- un- un pardonable pu-donable outrage upon tho the accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac decencies of public life liCe As nickel king Lord 1 Nickel was chairman of ot tho the Mond company of Great Britain with al allied allied al- al lied firms In n Canada and tho the United United United Unit Unit- ed States Slates It was said of ot his hii metal holdings holdings' that they embraced either directly or Indirectly n nearly all the nickel mines In existence constituting so great a portion of at the tho total output as to give him and his associates an nn almost worldwide monopoly mo mo- in a metal that ent enters rs into many of ot th the great Industries of I cl civilization v HEADED HUGE CONCERN Second t tp tc this enormous business interest was his place as us head bead of ot the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd a combination formed in October 1 1026 1926 and which included Brunner Morn Mond Co the Nobel Industries Ltd and the tile Ltd all of ol United Alkali Company n which were Mond ond concerns Besides Besides Be Be- sides side these tho the British competitor was a 1 brought into tho the combination giving ing InS Imperial Chemical Industries a L controlling position in that field field so 80 far as Britain was wan concerned Lord nl also o h headed several several several sev sev- companies which he eral coal Coni brought Into a 0 combination n under the title Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Ltd Ho was chief r figure figuro fig rig uro ure in a a public utility which sup sup- supplied plied piled moat most of ot th So Staffordshire with gas A financial investment corporation ape and Westminster bank as well wen as ns owner of the big London dally daily newspaper the tte Westminster that publication was Gazette until until- ln merged with t tire the e Dally Daily News New ANCESTORS POOR All AU this was tho fruit of two gen gen- c generations n- n of ot effort starting with the foresight of of his father L Ludwig Jewish Jew Jew- came camo from a a- poor who Mond Mood This isis ish family in Cassel Germany went want founder of the tho English Mends Monds England nd In 1862 and antI five years to Engl became a naturalized English later Hater t. t While While-n. a or er In hi a a. ch chemical chem m. m foal ical factory hornet ho he met John Tomlinson formed Brunner The Tito two Brunner Mond dond ond Co a 1 partnership hl which h dominated tho the English eventually J chemical Alfred l red Mond was the LudWig and ard was w.- born born October of at 23 1868 at Farnworth near Lancashire He Us was In later college coneg studied Cheltenham Cambridge and neS at it SL Johns John's college del at Edinburgh university admitted tined for tor the law la ho was ot the Inner temple ns Its na no turned d hU hlA lalen talents talents tal tal- turn quickly In 1894 but lucrative field of to th the tho more moro en and promotion promo s' s organization Uon b tion en L Ludwig wh ond In 1909 W When LUdWIg obar-LUdWIg Mond Robart elder son the re on his hia fathers father's i chemical c carried Alfred took took up searches J. J Ide 6 bUll bud the branched h dOUt out into nl nickel k l e ems arid and bran al alII roc metal 1 n manufacture tur c l II 4 fw I manufacture 4 t |