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David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons

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The son of Philip Salomons of Brighton , and Emma, daughter of Jacob Montefiore of Sydney , he succeeded to the Baronetcy originally granted to his uncle David Salomons in 1873. He married Laura, daughter of Hermann Stern, 1st Baron de Stern and Julia, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid, brother of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid by which he had one son and three daughters. He assumed the additional surnames and arms of Goldsmid and Stern in 1899. He studied at University College, London and at Caius College, Cambridge , gaining a B.A. in 1874. In the same year he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple . He went on to produce several scientific works and pamphlets. He was a J.P. , D.L. and High Sheriff of Kent , mayor and alderman of Tunbridge Wells , County Councilor for the Tonbridge division of Kent for 15 years and J.P. for London , Middlesex , Sussex , and Westminster . His home north of Tunbridge Wells, Broomhill, is preserved as the Salomons Museum . It is also a part of Canterbury Christ Church University , and is a centre for postgraduate training, research and consultancy. A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge. missing name .1

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