Francis Goldsmid
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet (1 May 1808 – 2 May 1878) was an English lawyer and politician.Goldsmid was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1833, becoming the first Jew to become an English barrister,[2] and was made Queen's Counsel in 1858.[2][3] Goldsmid was strenuous on behalf of the Jewish religion, and the founder of the great Jews Free School.[5] He married his first cousin Louisa Sophia Goldsmid on 10 October 1839 at London, England.Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid 2nd Bt., died dsp on 2 May 1878 in St. Thomas's Hospital London following an accident that day when he fell between the platform and a carriage from which he was alighting at Waterloo Station.