Please answer the following question: Facts: - birth name: alfred moritz mond - party: liberal conservative - monarch: george v george v - predecessor: lewis vernon harcourt christopher addison - birth date: 23 october 1868 - order: first commissioner of works minister of health - death date: 27 december 1930 23 october 1868 - spouse: violet goetze -lrb- d. 1945 -rrb- - term end: 1 april 1921 19 october 1922 - name: the lord melchett - death place: london - birth place: farnworth , widnes , lancashire , england - successor: the earl of crawford sir arthur griffith-boscawen - primeminister: david lloyd george david lloyd george - nationality: british - alma mater: st. john 's college , cambridge university of edinburgh - imagesize: 200px - term start: 10 december 1916 1 april 1921 - image: alfred mond.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alfred mond , 1st baron melchett .
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alfred moritz mond , 1st baron melchett , pc , frs -lrb- 23 october 1868 -- 27 december 1930 -rrb- , known as sir alfred mond , bt , between 1910 and 1928 , was a british industrialist , financier and politician .in his later life he became an active zionist .