Julian Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett

Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett (9 January 1925 – 15 June 1973[1]) was an English industrialist.

[2] His elder brother, Lieutenant The Honourable Derek John Henry Mond, was serving on HMS Philante when he was killed in a flying accident near Lochalsh on 30 April 1945.

After leaving the armed forces, Melchett joined Air Contractors Ltd, a subsidiary of the merchant bank M. Samuel & Co. A year later in 1948, supported by the bank, he founded a farming company based in Norfolk, British Field Products Limited, which specialised in grass-drying and animal feedstuffs.

[2] In 1966, Harold Wilson asked him to be chairman of a committee to plan the nationalization of the British steel industry, and from that time until his death he was effectively the chairman of what became the British Steel Corporation.

This was formed from fourteen major iron and steel companies and other smaller ones who together employed more than a quarter of a million workers.