Osmond d'Avigdor-Goldsmid

Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet DL JP (9 August 1877 – 14 April 1940) was a British financier and baronet.

Life

D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was born to Jewish parents Elim Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid.[1][2] He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1]

First World War

D'Avigdor-Goldsmid served in the France during the First World War (1914–19). He reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was twice mentioned in dispatches.[1]

Public life

He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1912, Chairman of the Jewish Colonisation Association (1919), President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1921–26), President of the British Board of Deputies of British Jews (1926–33), and Treasurer of the Jewish Memorial Council.[3][4]

Baronetcy

Born Osmond d'Avigdor, he "added the name Goldsmid on inheriting the estates of his cousin Sir Julian Goldsmid".[5][6] He was created a Baronet of Somerhill in the County of Kent on 22 January 1934.[7]

Personal life

In 1907 D'Avigdor-Goldsmid married Alice Landau, Russian banker Yakov Polyakov's granddaughter. After his death, his son Henry D'Avigdor-Goldsmid inherited his peerage.

He was a member of the Athenæum.[1]

Memorial

The Israeli settlement of Avigdor was named after him.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Osmond Elim, (1877–14 April 1940)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u208386. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Osmond d'Avigdor Goldsmid, J.P.British Jews in The First World War - We Were There Too". www.jewsfww.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Osmond Elim D'Avigdor Goldsmid: Jewish Activist – Shalom Sussex". Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Osmond Elim D'avigdor-Goldsmid". www.dutchjewry.org.
  5. ^ "D'avigdor - Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  6. ^ "No. 26742". The London Gazette. 22 May 1896. p. 3065.
  7. ^ "No. 34018". The London Gazette. 26 January 1934. p. 604.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Somerhill)
1934–1940 		Succeeded by