British financier and baronet
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
General Presidents
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