Group (2002–2008), and the Department of Education's School Lunches Review Panel (2005). Melchett was also on the board of the EU £12m Research Project 'Quality Low Input Food'. Personal life Peter Melchett was in a relationship with Cassandra "Cass" Wedd for 45 years, although they were never married. They had two children who were educated at a comprehensive school instead of the family tradition of Eton College. Lord Melchett's daughter Jessica Joan Mond-Wedd is a barrister, whilst his son, Justin "Jay"Julian Mond Wedd, is a farmer. Lord Melchett was a vocal opponent of hereditary peerdom and declared in a BBC radio broadcast for Desert Island Discs that he had deprived his son Jay (who farms at the family farm in Ringstead) of the right to succeed him as 5th Baron Melchett, of Landford in the County of Southampton, and 5th Baronet of Hartford Hill in the County of Cheshire, because his son was born out of wedlock, which means the extinction of the barony and of the baronetcy upon his death. Coat of arms See also Ludwig Mond Award Melchett Medal Mond gas Brunner Mond & Co. References External links Profile, Huffington Post: retrieved 21 January 2015 Greenpeace: Peter Melchett 18 January 2002 British Government Ministers, 1970–2009 Welcome To Courtyard Farm | Ringstead | Norfolk 1948 births 2018 deaths English people of German-Jewish descent Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People from King's Lynn and West Norfolk (district) People educated at Eton College Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Alumni of Keele University Alumni of the London School of Economics Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Northern Ireland Office junior ministers English farmers English landowners English environmentalists English atheists Peter Mond ,4th Baron Melchett English republicans Melchett