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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. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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.

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.

Baronetcy

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

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.

Memorial

The Israeli settlement of Avigdor was named after him.

References

1. ^ "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.
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6. "No. 26742". The London Gazette. 22 May 1896. p. 3065.
7. "No. 34018". The London Gazette. 26 January 1934. p. 604.

• 1877 births
• 1940 deaths
• 19th-century British Jews
• 20th-century British Jews
• D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets
• Goldsmid family
• High sheriffs of Kent
• Presidents of the Board of Deputies of British Jews