Osmond d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
British financier and baronet
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Life
D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was born to Jewish parents. His father, Elim Henry d'Avigdor, was a noted civil engineer.[1][2][3] He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[2]
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.[2]
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.[4][5]
Baronetcy
Born Osmond d'Avigdor, he "added the name Goldsmid on inheriting the estates of his cousin Sir Julian Goldsmid".[6][7] He was created a Baronet of Somerhill in the County of Kent on 22 January 1934.[8]
Personal life
In 1907, D'Avigdor-Goldsmid married Alice Landau(1881—1968), 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.[2]
Memorial
The Israeli settlement of Avigdor was named after him.
