Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet DL JP (9 August 1877 – 14 April 1940) was a British financier and baronet.
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]
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]
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]
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 BaronetofSomerhill in the County of Kent on 22 January 1934.[7]
In 1907 D'Avigdor-Goldsmid married Alice Landau, Russian banker Yakov Polyakov's granddaughter. After his death, his son Herny D'Avigdor-Goldsmid inherited his peerage.
He was a member of the Athenæum.[1]
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| New creation | Baronet (of Somerhill) 1934–1940 |
Succeeded by |
| International |
|
|---|---|
| National |
|
|
| |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General |
| ||||||||
| Presidents |
| ||||||||
| Related |
| ||||||||
