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Salomons
Salomons is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Annie Salomons (1885–1980), Dutch writer, poet and translator * Carolien Salomons (born 1974), Dutch cricketer * David Salomons (1797–1873), British banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London * David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (1851–1925), British author and barrister * Edward Salomons (1828–1906), English architect * Julian Salomons (1835–1909) British-born barrister and politician in Australia * Leopold Salomons (1841–1915), British financier and director * Philip Salomons (1796–1867), English financier, brother of David * Piet Salomons (1924–1948), Dutch water polo player Other * Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons baronets * Salomons Museum, former country house of Sir David Salomons in Kent See also * Salomon {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet (28 January 1851 – 19 April 1925) was a British scientific author, barrister and pioneer of road transport. Early life The son of Philip Salomons of Brighton, and Emma, daughter of Jacob Eliezer Montefiore of Barbados, he succeeded to the Baronetcy originally granted to his uncle David Salomons in 1873. He married Laura, daughter of Baron Hermann de Stern (of Portugal) and Julia, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid, brother of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, by whom he had one son and four daughters. He assumed the additional surnames and Coat of arms, arms of Goldsmid family, Goldsmid and Stern family, Stern in 1899. He studied at University College, London, University College, London and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a Bachelor of Arts, BA in 1874. In the same year he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. Career He went on to produce several scientific works and pamphlets. He was a Justice of the Peace, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Salomons
Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons (formerly Solomons) (4 November 1835 – 6 April 1909) was a barrister, royal commissioner, Solicitor General, Chief Justice and member of parliament. He was the only Chief Justice of New South Wales to be appointed and resign before he was ever sworn into office. Salomons was said to be short of stature and somewhat handicapped by defective eyesight. However, he had great industry, great powers of analysis, a keen intellect and unbounded energy and pertinacity. His wit and readiness were proverbial, and he was afraid of no judge. Early years Salomons was born Julian Emanuel Solomons on 4 November 1835 at Edgbaston, Warwickshire in England, the only son of Emanuel Solomons, a merchant in Birmingham. He arrived in Sydney on 4 September 1853, aged 16 years, on board the ''Atalanta''. He was employed as a stockbroker's clerk and as an assistant in a book shop. In 1855 he was appointed the secretary of the Great Synagogue at Sydney. After passing the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomons Museum
The Salomons Museum is a museum north of Tunbridge Wells, in the county of Kent, southeast England. It preserves the country house of Sir David Salomons, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London, and of his nephew, Sir David Lionel Salomons, a scientist and engineer. Originally called ''Broomhill'', the house is now called ''Salomons.'' The museum is managed by Markerstudy Group. Architecture The house was built in the 1830s by Decimus Burton. It features an extremely tall water tower, stables, a private science lecture theatre and Sir David Lionel's laboratories. Major additions were made in 1854, 1863, 1908, 1910 and 1913. The house is a Grade II listed building. Collections The museum preserves the bench from which David Salomons rose to speak in 1851, becoming the first Jew ever to speak in Parliament. The first Jew elected to Parliament was Baron Lionel de Rothschild. Elected in 1847, he refused to swear his oath of office using the phrase "on the true faith of a Christia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Salomons
Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet (22 November 1797 – 18 July 1873), was a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom. He was the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London. Early life Born in London, the son of Levy Salomons of St Mary Axe and Frant, Sussex, and Matilda de Metz of Leyden (married in 1795), he followed his father into business in the City of London, where he was a successful banker. Salomons was one of the founders of the London and Westminster Bank (now the NatWest), and a member of the London Stock Exchange. In 1835 he was elected as sheriff of the City of London. However, he was unable to take up the post, because the mandatory oath of office included Christian statements of faith. The Sheriffs' Declaration Act was passed later that year, and Salomons was able to take up the post. In 1839, he was High Sheriff of Kent, where his Broomhill estate, now the Salomons Museum, was loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Salomons
Annie Salomons (1885–1980) was a Dutch writer, poet and translator. Early life and poetry Anna Maria Francisca van Wageningen-Salomons was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 26 June 1885, second daughter of Constant Theodor Salomons, director of a gasworks, and Trinette Marie Catherine Kortman-Salomons. The family lived in a large house next to the gasworks, which was remote from other middle-class houses and other children. She has written that she had a lonely childhood after her sister went to school. At the age of 16 she was in love with the poet Carel Gerretson and they remained friends until his death in 1958. After leaving secondary school, she taught at the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam, before following her sister to Leiden University, where she studied Dutch literature, and then to Utrecht University. She ended her studies in 1910, without having taken an exam, and then returned to live with her parents, who had by then moved to The Hague. She stayed with them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Salomons
Edward Salomons (1828–1906) was an English architect based in Manchester, active in the late 19th century. He is known for his architecture in the Gothic Revival and Italianate styles. Education and career Edward Salomons was born in London in 1828 to Priscilla (''née'' Lucas) and Henry Moses Salomons, a cotton trader originally from Germany. He was a middle child of a large family. They moved in Manchester in around 1837, living in Plymouth Grove. The family was part of the city's Jewish community. Edward Salomons was predominantly educated at home, and worked for a short time in the family business before reading architecture at the Manchester School of Design (c. 1850). He trained with John Edgar Gregan for a year and then worked for the ecclesiastical architects H. Bowman and J. S. Crowther, where he (as well as Thomas Worthington) contributed to their book, ''The Churches of the Middle Ages''. In 1852 or 1853 he started to practise independently from an office on Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Salomons
Leopold Salomons (14 May 1841 – 23 September 1915) was a city financier and company director active in the City of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Salomons was born into a British Jewish family, but it has been suggested that he later converted to Christianity. Today he is primarily remembered for his purchase of Box Hill in 1914 to protect it from development. Career in the City of London Salomons was one of the founders and directors of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation Limited in 1880. He identified the potential market for employers' liability insurance which had arisen as a consequence of the Employers' Liability Act 1880. After Salomons' death in 1915, the then director of the Corporation commented, " alomonswas the founder of the Corporation and one of the original Directors, and through his great financial ability helped us to steer through many shoals which confronted us at the commencement of our career as a company." The company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons Baronets
The Salomons, later Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons Baronetcy, of Broom Hill in the Parish of Tunbridge in the County of Kent and of Great Cumberland Place in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 October 1869 for David Salomons, a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom, with remainder in default of male issue of his own to his nephew David Lionel Salomons and the heirs male of his body. Salomons died childless and was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Baronet. He was the son of Philip Salomons, younger brother of the first Baronet. The second Baronet married Laura, daughter of Hermann Stern, 1st Baron de Stern (of Portugal) and Julia, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid, brother of Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet. In 1899 he assumed the additional surnames of Goldsmid and Stern. The title became extinct on his death in 1925. Salomons, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Salomons
Philip Salomons (1796–1867) was an English financier, Jewish leader and High Sheriff of Sussex. Early life Philip Salomons was born in London in 1796. He travelled extensively in the United States as a young man, and became a naturalized American citizen in 1826. Later that year, however, he returned to England and resumed his British citizenship. His father was a financier in the City of London, as was his brother, Sir David Salomons (1797–1873). Career Salomons became a financier in the City of London. Judaism Salomons followed his father as Warden of London's New Synagogue in 1843. He succeeded his brother as a representative on the Board of Deputies of British Jews. A devout man, he had his own private Roof-top synagogue on top of his Hove home. He was a noted collector of antique Judaica. The Tablets of the Ten Commandments from the synagogue are preserved in the collection of the Salomons Museum in Tunbridge Wells. Public office Salomons served as Justice of the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolien Salomons
Carolien Aimee Salomons (born 20 July 1974) is a former Dutch international cricketer whose career for the national women's side spanned from 1995 to 2011. She played for the Netherlands at both the 1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ... and 2000 World Cups, and served as the team's captain between 2001 and 2006. – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2015. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salomons, Carolien 1974 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Salomons
Pieter "Piet" Johannes Alexander Salomons (14 July 1924 – 8 October 1948) was a Dutch water polo goalkeeper. He played two matches at the 1948 Summer Olympics where his team won a bronze medal. A few months after the games he took his own life by jumping in front of an oncoming train. See also * Netherlands men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament. There are fifty-nine male athletes who hav ... * List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salomons, Piet 1924 births 1948 deaths People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies Dutch male water polo players Water polo goalkeepers Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
