George Goldsmid, Esq.
(1820-1894)
4 May 1861

Volume 3, page 196, sitting number 3475.

Born in or about 1820, George Goldsmid was a son of Alexander Goldsmid. His great-grandfather was Aaron Goldsmid, the Dutch merchant who founded a branch of his family in the United Kingdom which within one generation had become wealthy and powerful bankers.

He appears on the 1841 census, aged 21, living with his six siblings at Tavistock Place in London. He gave ‘Civil Engineer’ as his profession.

When the census was taken in 1881 he was lodging at 114 Piccadilly, London, the home of a chemist named John Warner and his family.

He was still at the same address ten years later.

George Goldsmid died, aged 74, on 28 June 1894 at 114 Piccadilly, London. He was buried on 2 July 1894 in Balls Pond Road Cemetery. His estate was valued at £34,702.

According to a subsequent report on his will, ‘The testator bequeathed £30 each to the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum (Lower Norwood), the West London Synagogue (Upper Berkeley-street), the Jews’ Free School (Bell Lane, Spitalfields), the Jews’ Infant Schools (Commercial-street and Tenter-street, Spitalfields), the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor (Devonshire Square), University College Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children (Great Ormond-street), and Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital, Marylebone’ (Manchester Evening News, 16 August 1894). The will was proved by his nephews Ernest George Mocatta and Herbert George Lousada (Illustrated London News, 18 August 1894).