GOLDSBROUGH, Richard. b. Shipley near Bradford, Yorks. 1821; wool merchant Bradford 1842; went to Adelaide, Australia, settled in Melbourne 1847 and became a dealer in wool, etc. 1848; in partnership with Edward Rowe and George Kirk 1853 as dealers in stations, stock and wool; amalgamated with Australian agency and banking corporation 1881 when the consolidated concern became a limited co. and himself chairman, capital 3 millions; steward of Victoria racing club from its foundation. d. Melbourne 8 April 1886.
GOLDSMID, Anna Maria (sister of the succeeding). Pupil of Thomas Campbell the poet, who gave her some of his manuscripts which she bequeathed to British Museum; gave large sums to charity, often anonymously; published many original pamphlets on education; translated L. Philippsohn’s The development of the religious idea in Judaism 1855 and J. Cohen’s The Deicides, Analysis of the life of Jesus 1872 and other books. d. 26 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1889 aged 84.
GOLDSMID, Sir Francis Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1 baronet 1778–1859). b. Spital sq. London 1 May 1808; barrister L.I. 31 Jany. 1833, bencher 11 Jany. 1858; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858, the first Jew called to the English bar and the first Jewish Q.C. and bencher; pres. of senate of Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by R. Lehmann; M.P. for Reading 11 Jany. 1860 to death; founded Jews’ infant sch. 1841, now largest infant sch. in England; founded Anglo-Jewish Association 1871; author of many pamphlets. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 2 May 1878 from effects of an accident at Waterloo station same day. Memoir of Sir F. H. Goldsmid, by D. W. Marks and Albert Löwy, 2 ed. (1882), portrait.
GOLDSMID, Frederick David. b. London 1812; M.P. for Honiton 12 July 1865 to death. d. 20 Portman sq. London 18 March 1866, personalty sworn under £400,000 23 June 1866.
GOLDSMID, Henry Edward (son of Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley st. London). b. 9 May 1812; educ. Haileybury coll. where he learnt Persian and Hindustani; went to Bombay 1832; assistant revenue commissioner Tauna 1835 when he devised the revenue survey and assessment system which was applied to the whole of the lands in Bombay 1865–68 with great success; sec. to Bombay government in revenue department 1848 and chief sec. 1854. d. Cairo 3 Jany. 1855.
GOLDSMID, Sir Isaac Lyon, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Asher Goldsmid of Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822). b. Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid, bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57; created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created; created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846; endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. d. St. John’s lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 249–56; N. H. Nixon’s History of North London hospital (1882), 16–18; Banker’s Mag. June 1859, pp. 375–82, July 1859, pp. 449–57, April 1860, pp. 220–4.
GOLDSMITH, George (son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N.) Entered navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted Greenwich hospital pension 1866. d. 35 Victoria road, Old Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.
GOLDSTUECKER, Theodor. b. Königsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D. Königsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to Chambers’ Encyclopædia 1862–68 and to Westminster Review; professor of Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death; author of On the Mahâbhârata 1868 and other books. d. 14 St. George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. Goldstuecker’s Literary Remains 2 vols. (1879); Trubner’s Record vii, 109, 145 (1872).
GOLIGHTLY, Rev. Charles Pourtales (2 son of William Golightly of Ham, Surrey). b. 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics 1837; Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times 1841, and many other works against Ritualism. d. 6 Holywell st. Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P. Golightly (1886); Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 108–13 (1882).
GOLLOP, George Tilly (elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne 1745–93). b. 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset 1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s Introduction to the New Testament and Introduction to the Old Testament. d. Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.