Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet, DL, JP (8 October 1838 – 7 January 1896) was a British lawyer, businessman and

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(later Liberal Unionist) politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1896.

Background and early life

Goldsmid was the son of

Frederick Goldsmid Frederick David Goldsmid (31 January 1812 – 18 March 1866), son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and his wife Isabel, was an English politician. He was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for Honiton on 12 July 1865. Goldsmid married, on 23 July ...

and his wife Caroline Samuel. His father was a banker and Member of Parliament for Honiton. Goldsmid was educated privately until he entered University College, London. In 1864 he became a fellow of University College, and was also called to the bar.Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
/ref> After a brief period on the

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, he gave up practicing law when he was elected to parliament.Jewish encyclopedia
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Career

Goldsmid was first stood for Parliament at a by-election in February 1864 for the

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, without success, and he was defeated again at the 1865 general election, when he contested Cirencester. He was elected unopposed as a

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(MP) for Honiton at a by-election in March 1866. In that year, Goldsmid inherited

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near

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, on the death of his father. Honiton was disfranchised in 1868 by the Reform Act of 1867 and at the 1868 general election Goldsmid stood unsuccessfully for Mid Surrey. He was elected for Rochester at a by-election in 1870 and held the seat until his defeat at the 1880 general election. In 1879, Goldsmid began expanding Somerhill to accommodate his large family - he had eight daughters. The work took until 1897 to complete. He then contested a by-election in May 1880 for

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, and was returned to the Commons after a five-year absence at the 1885 general election as MP for St Pancras South, holding that seat until his death in 1896. In 1894 Goldsmid was deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1878 Goldsmid succeeded his uncle, Sir Francis Goldsmid to the baronetcy and to the estate of Whiteknights Park at

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, as well as others in Sussex, Kent and elsewhere. He also bore the Portuguese title of Baron de Goldsmid e da Palmeira. His business interests included being chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company and the Imperial and Continental Gas Association, and he was a director of the

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. A

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was named ''Goldsmid'' after him in 1892.Brighton St Ann's Well
/ref> Goldsmid was treasurer of University College in 1880-81 and was a member of the council of

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. He was vice-chancellor of the

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when he died. He was Deputy lieutenant of Kent, Sussex, and Berkshire, J. P. for Kent, Sussex, and London, colonel of the 1st Sussex Rifle Volunteers, and honorary colonel of the

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. Goldsmid was one of many who was concerned about the Russian persecutions on Jewish community of 1881. He was assigned as chairman of a fund that focused on the relief of Russo-Jewish refugees. This fund supported the Board of Guardians, a body that performed the Russian exodus into England. The number of refugees permanently residing in London was not large. The majority of refugees continued their voyage to America.

Marriage

In 1868, Goldsmid married Virginia Philipson of Florence and had eight daughters. As he had no son, his

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property passed to a male relative, his house in

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being converted into the

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Deaths

Goldsmid died at the age of 57 at

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where his grandfather, Sir Isaac Goldsmid had purchased the Wick Estate in 1830. "Julian Road" in the estate is named after him.

References

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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Honiton Burials at Balls Pond Road Cemetery