Julian Goldsmid
[2] Goldsmid was first stood for Parliament at a by-election in February 1864 for the borough of Brighton, without success,[3] and he was defeated again at the 1865 general election, when he contested Cirencester.[6] Honiton was disfranchised in 1868 by the Reform Act of 1867 and at the 1868 general election Goldsmid stood unsuccessfully for Mid Surrey.[6] He then contested a by-election in May 1880 for Sandwich,[9] and was returned to the Commons after a five-year absence at the 1885 general election as MP for St Pancras South,[10] holding that seat until his death in 1896.[1] His business interests included being chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company and the Imperial and Continental Gas Association, and he was a director of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.[13] As he had no son, his entailed property passed to a male relative, his house in Piccadilly being converted into the Isthmian Club.
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