Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet DL JP (9 August 1877 â 14 April 1940) was a British financier and baronet.
D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was born to Jewish parents. His father, Elim Henry d'Avigdor, was a noted civil engineer. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
D'Avigdor-Goldsmid served in the France during the First World War (1914âÂÂ19). He reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was twice mentioned in dispatches.
He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1912, Chairman of the Jewish Colonisation Association (1919), President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1921âÂÂ26), President of the British Board of Deputies of British Jews (1926âÂÂ33), and Treasurer of the Jewish Memorial Council.
Born Osmond d'Avigdor, he "added the name Goldsmid on inheriting the estates of his cousin Sir Julian Goldsmid". He was created a Baronet of Somerhill in the County of Kent on 22 January 1934.
In 1907, D'Avigdor-Goldsmid married Alice Landau, 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.
The Israeli settlement of Avigdor was named after him.