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Question
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I have heard that the founder of ICI had a Wiltshire connection. Could tell me what this was please?
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Question asked on
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01 March 2004
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Answer
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Sir Alfred Mond, Chairman on Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, bought most of Landford Manor Estate in south-eastern Wiltshire in 1917. A friend of Lloyd George, he was created a baron in 1928 and took his title from the royal forest of Melchet that once included Landford, becoming Baron Melchet of Landford.
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Bibliography
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Landford Footpath Guide, 1997
Who Was Who, Vol. 3, 1929-1940
