Osmond d'Avigdor-Goldsmid

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Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (1877–1940) was a British financier and baronet. He was born to Jewish parents; his father was civil engineer Elim Henry d'Avigdor. He went to Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and served in World War I in France, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel and being mentioned in despatches twice.

In public life, he held several Jewish and local roles: High Sheriff of Kent in 1912; chairman of the Jewish Colonisation Association in 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. He was born Osmond d'Avigdor and added the surname Goldsmid when he inherited his cousin Sir Julian Goldsmid's estates. He was made a Baronet of Somerhill in Kent on 22 January 1934. In 1907 he married Alice Landau, granddaughter of the Russian banker Yakov Polyakov; their son Henry D'Avigdor-Goldsmid later inherited the baronetcy. Osmond was a member of the Athenaeum Club, and the Israeli settlement Avigdor is named after him.