Statue of Ludwig Mond

Ludwig Mond (1839–1909), who was born in Germany, became a chemical industrialist in England. He studied at the Universities of Marburg and Heidelberg and moved to England in 1862. He joined the alkali manufacturing business of John Hutchinson in Widnes (then in Lancashire, now in Cheshire). Hutchinson manufactured alkali by the Leblanc process, and Mond's earlier work for the company was to devise a method of recovering sulphur from the by-products of the process. Another employee of Hutchinson was John Brunner, who had joined the company in 1861, and who became the manager of the office. The Leblanc process was an inefficient method for producing alkali, and was very damaging to the…

The statue consists of a bronze figure on a granite pedestal. The figure is 2.1 m high, standing on a pedestal 1.9 m in height. The figure is life size, and depicts Mond standing, with a beard and a moustache, holding a stick in his right hand, and papers behind his back in his left hand. He is wearing a long heavy overcoat and a large floppy hat. The pedestal contains an inscription reading as follows: On the base of the pedestal are the names of the manufacturer of the figure, and of the sculptor.