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Sir Alfred Mond. "I'm sorry to have to disturb Your Majesty, but, owing to the shortage of sites—"

George III . "Shortage of sights, indeed!"

is understood that a number of London statues, including that of George III in Cockspur Street, are to be removed by the Office of Works to make room for new ones.

Cartoon from Punch magazine, August 18th 1920]]
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett ( 1868 - 1930 ) was a British industrialist and politician.

Mond was the son of Ludwig Mond . In 1902 , he founded the Mond Nickel works at Clydach , Wales , the largest in the world at the time.
From his interests came ICI ( 1926 ), of which he was the first chairman.

He was Liberal Member Of Parliament for Chester 1906-1910, Swansea 1910-23 and for Carmarthen in the period 1924-28 before entering the House Of Lords as Baron Melchett in 1928. He was Minister Of Health in 1922 .

Melchett founded the town of Tel Mond , now in Israel . His great-grandson, Peter Melchett , was a Labour politician and executive director of Greenpeace UK.

  Title MP for Chester
  Years 1906&ndash1910
  Before Robert Armstrong Yerburgh
  After Robert Armstrong Yerburgh


  Title MP for Swansea
  Years 1910&ndash1923
  Before (name missing)
  After (name missing)


  Title MP for Carmarthen
  Years 1924&ndash1928
  Before (name missing)
  After (name missing)


  Title Minister Of Health
  Years 1921&ndash1922
  Before Christopher Addison
  After Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen