Goldsmith family

Founder of this dynasty is Aaron Goldsmith (died in 1782), who is of the Jews of Amsterdam based in London in 1740s. He was engaged in trade and exchange and his institution was called "Aaron Goldsmith and the sons". Aaron Goldsmith was a well-known financial figure in London at the time.
He had four sons and four daughters. The first son was named George Goldsmith (1743-1812), who married to the Cohen family. The second boy was named Usher Goldsmith (1751-1822), who married a girl from the Kaiser Family. The third son was Benjamin Goldsmith (1755-1808), who married with Salmons family; and fourth son was Abraham Goldsmith (1756-1810), who married a girl from Eliasson family.
Benjamin and Abraham Goldsmith were the younger sons of Aaron, who were prominent figures in London's financial and non-financial institutions and English major competitor during the French Revolution. They could put their competitors out of the arena through giving loans to the British government. In 1795, Goldsmiths lent14 million pounds sterling to the British government that could prepare an important part of the liquidity needed for government of William Pitt for the war with France. At this time Benjamin committed suicide apparently due to a dispute with the board of directors of the East India Company. Later, Abraham provided macro loan for Sir Francis Baring, head of Baring Foundation.
Abraham Goldsmith, who was a close friend of Admiral Lord Horativ Nelson (1758-1805), was a prominent commander in the British Navy in the Napoleonic wars, and the night before the departure of the infamous Battle of Trafalgar Nelson (21 October 1805), the two were together in Nelson property in Surrey in the summer. Abraham Goldsmith also had a close friendship with sons of George III, king of England. Goldsmiths were financial advisers of the sons of George III and Lord Nelson.
The most important branches of the Goldsmith House root in Usher and Benjamin, second and third sons of Aaron:
The eldest son of Usher Goldsmith, who was Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith the first Baronet (1778-1859), was a prominent member of the family of Goldsmith.
Isaac Goldsmith was the main operator of "Mukata and Goldsmith" institution that was of the most important financial intermediaries of the East India Company and was in charge of the Mint of "Bank of England". He gained great wealth through financial and business operations and in particular by investing in the construction of railway networks. Isaac Goldsmith was a Baronet in 1841 and he was the first English Jew who became a hereditary baronet. He was one of co-founders of University College of London. In 1846, King of Portugal granted "Baron Palmyra" to Isaac Goldsmith for helping to resolve financial disputes of Portugal and Brazil.
One of the daughters of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith married to Kenneth Solomon Davigdor (1815-1871). Solomon Davigdor is grandson of Isaac Samuel Avigdor (died in 1827) and is of the Jewish leaders of France. Isaac Avigdor was of members of the Great Council "Sanhedrin" convened at the behest of Napoleon.
Avigdor's family origins are not known. We know Rabbi named Avigdor Ben Elia (1200-1275) in the thirteenth AD century that belonged to the Cohen family living in Italy. In the second half of the fourteenth century, a man named Abraham ben Solomon Avigdor lived in France and he was the doctor and the author. He translated some of the Medical works of Avicenna and Razi in Latin. It is likely that the current family of Davigdor are from this lineage. During the reign of Abdul Majid in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1862) a man named Jacob Avigdor was "rabbi" of Jews in Istanbul. In 1863, he was dismissed from this position.
Kent Solomon Davigdor, son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith, was of influential Jews in Europe, and in the time of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon III) he became as a prominent aristocratic "Duke Acquaviva". The result of the union of the two families is Goldsmith – Davigdo House. Other children of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith married to the Samuel, Mukata and Montefiore families.
Sir Francis Goldsmith (1808-1878), the eldest son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith, was one of British political and judicial figures and he was the MP from the Liberal Party from 1860 to the end of his life.
His brother, Frederick Goldsmith (1812-1866), was also MP. Sir Julian Goldsmith (1838-1896), son of Frederick Goldsmith and Caroline Samuel, was MP for many years. He was first vice president and then was president of British Jews organization (Anglo-Jewish Association). Sir Julian Goldsmith married to Virginia Phillipson. Baroness Violet Goldsmith Palmyra (1869-1949) is the result of this marriage.
After the death of Sir Julian Goldsmith, his title was transferred to his cousin, Sir Aozmond Davigdor Goldsmith (1877-1940) son of Kent Solomon Davigdor and Rachel Goldsmith. Sir Aozmond was of the prominent regional heads of Zionist organizations in Israel, and today a section of Israel is named after him. His wife was from Landau family.
The heirs of Sir Aozmond Davigdor Goldsmith are two boys:
Sir Henry Joseph Davigdor Goldsmith (1909-1976) was one of political figures in Britain and a prominent contemporary Zionist. In 1955, he went to the House of Commons as a representative of the Conservative Party and he chaired "Jewish Colonial Association" (Ica) and "Bank of the Anglo-Israel" for years.
Major General Sir James (Arthur) Davidgor Goldsmith (1912-?) was the second son of Sir Aozmond Davigdor Goldsmith, and he was one of officials of the British Ministry of Defense in the 1960s. He died in recent years.
The most important members of other branches of Goldsmith family from Benjamin Goldsmith, another son of Aaron, are as follows:
Albert Goldsmith (1793-1861), the eldest son of Benjamin, who apparently converted to Christianity, and went to serve the British army in 1811 and took part in the Battle of Waterloo and eventually reached the rank of Major General.
The second son of Benjamin named Lionel Goldsmith (1797-1866) married to the family of Campbell and seemingly converted to religion of Jesus Christ. Major General Sir Frederick John Goldsmith (1818-1908), the famous face of the colonial Great Britain was the result of this marriage. He was one of Jewish-English effective characters in the contemporary history of Iran.
Frederick John Goldsmith ended his studies in Paris and King's College of London. In 1839, he joined Great Britain's army of the East India Company. He also participated in the Opium War with China (1839-1842) and the Crimean War (1854-1856). In the years 1862-1864, he was sent to "special" and political missions by the Government of Bombay and headed "India's Telegraph Europe" in the years 1865-1870.
The aforementioned companies' telegraph line was built in Iran from 1863 with supervision of Goldsmith, and at the expense of Iran. Muhammad Ali Khan Sadid al-Saltaneh Bandar Abbasi (Kababi) writes:
In the year 1280 AH [1863] Telegraph Company of India and Europe wired to the Persian Gulf, and in 1281, they had wire in Iran, and some consider the 1281 as date of corruption.
A contemporary scholar describes scrambling of "Europe India's Telegraph" in Iran as follows:
During the Indian Mutiny ... it took three months to answer a message from India to London and back. Therefore, telegraph communication between London and India was priority of measures for Great Britain. The first telegraph line was connected to London and Paris in 1851. Until 1856, approximately 4,500 miles of telegraph line was connected to major Indian cities. During the years 1857 to 1861, London was connected to Istanbul and then to Baghdad. British tended to connect the above line from Khanaqin to Tehran and from there to Bushehr. It was a part of the London-Karachi line in the Great Britain. Authorities in Great Britain called Iranian authorities in 1861 for obtaining scores of construction of the line. Shah of Iran had fear of English intervention in Iran so he rejected granting this concession. The British policies about Sistan from that time onwards that finally gave Iran freedom about military acts for expansion of their rights in Sistan, in addition to income from telegraph along with other pressures, led to giving English people the right to have construction of the 1,100-mile line in February 1863 at the expense of Iran. Following the score of this line, the second line rating was granted to them for the exclusive use of English. This line was connected from Tehran to central Iran, Yazd and Kerman and was connected to India Balochistan border. A third line connected Iran and Europe together in 1866 and Iran's wire was connected to Russia in Caucasus's border as well. Now, not only the British need to build lines in Iran was more than past, but they even used the tool to put effective pressure in Iran to expand their colonial objectives. At least two million pounds sterling cost of these three telegraph lines was given to Iran's government as a loan by Great Britain. According to Sir Mortimer Durand, Minister of Great Britain, telegraph lines served the intelligence needs of Great Britain. Even the government of Great Britain financially put pressure on Iran about how to pay money for using telegraph lines. In addition, during setting up the lines, the English gathered first-hand detailed information about Iran's natural and human geography.
Goldsmith reached the rank of colonel in 1870. In years 1870-1872 he was agent of setting Iranian borders in Kalat and sentenced boundaries of Sistan. In August 1870, at the head of Sistan Boundary Commission, Goldsmith went to the site of his mission. In the composition of the commission, Frederick Richard Pollock, Colonel Charles McNeill, Yuan Captain Smith, Doctor Henry Bellew and Major Saint-John Oliver were present. Frederick Richard Pollock (the next Gen. Sir Frederick Richard Pollock) also belonged to the oligarchy of the Jewish plutocracy. Colonel McNeill was Indian-Great Britain's intelligence officer, and he had the task of forming secret networks of the system in Khorasan and Sistan. Vote of "Sistan Boundary Commission" actually meant to separate an important part of Sistan from Iran.