Family Card - Person Sheet
NameElim Henry d'Avigdor 
*New [OCCU]articled to Hawkshaw
Birth9 Mar 1841
Death9 Feb 1895
Spouses
Marriage1866
ChildrenOlga Marie Rachel (1869-)
Estelle (1872-1949)
Osmond Elim (1877-1940)
Elsa (1881-1948)
Beryl Berenice (1884-1941)
Sylvie (-1949)
Notes for Elim Henry d'Avigdor
{geni:occupation} Engineer
{geni:about_me} Jewish Chronicle? 1895
Elim Henry d'Avigdor (1841-1895), born in Provence ... died in London ... engineer and communal worker, was the eldest son of Count Salamon Henri d'Avigdor (a friend of Napoleon III, from whom he received his title, and son of thed'Avigdor who was a member of the Great Sanhedrin assembled by Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris in 1807) and of Rachel, second daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid.
Elim d'Avigdor was educated at University College, London, and the University of London (BA, 1861), where he won the German prize. Having been articled to the engineer Hawkshaw, d'Avigdor in 1862 went first to Hull, then to Rangoon (Burma) in connection with his professional work. He supervised the construction of railways in Syria and in Transylvania, and of water-works in Vienna. He became a director of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company.
He was a member of the West London Synagogue, and later of the Bevis Marks Synagogue.
Active in the AJA, he was a founder and enthusiastic leader of the Chovevei Zion movement in Britain, designing its banner and framing the rules of its central committee.
It was d'Avigdor's railway experience added to his interest in Palestine as chief of the Chovevi Zion Association which led him to contract in railway work in Syria and to form the Tyrian Construction Company.
Gaining some experience in literary work in connection with "Vanity Fair," he bought the "Examiner." He subsequently brought out a paper called the "Yachting Gazette." Under the pseudonym of "Wanderer," d'Avigdor published huntingstories of merit, being himself rider to hounds. D'Avigdor was a warden of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, and served on several committees. He was chief of the Chovevei Zion Association, in which movement he took the keenest interest; joining this in 1891 he helped to consolidate it, and was instrumental in bringing it into connection with similar associations on the Continent. He was a member of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association from 1871 until his death.
He married a daughter of Bethel Jacobs of Hull, by whom he had one son and five daughters. The son, Osmond d'Avigdor Goldsmid, inherited the Goldsmid estates on the death of Sir Julian Goldsmid.
His daughter Sylvie D'Avigdor (Mrs C B Clapcott; 1873-10 June 1954), translated into English Der Judenstaat (1896), as well as many of Herzl's speeches. Her sister Bernice D'Avigdor (1884-28 August 1941), who became Chairman of the Old Roedeanians' Council, was in charge of all London's ambulance drivers from the WRNS during the First World War; afterwards she headed the Sea Rangers, and worked tirelessly on behalf of refugees from Nazism.
{geni:about_me} Jewish Chronicle? 1895
Elim Henry d'Avigdor (1841-1895), born in Provence ... died in London ... engineer and communal worker, was the eldest son of Count Salamon Henri d'Avigdor (a friend of Napoleon III, from whom he received his title, and son of thed'Avigdor who was a member of the Great Sanhedrin assembled by Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris in 1807) and of Rachel, second daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid.
Elim d'Avigdor was educated at University College, London, and the University of London (BA, 1861), where he won the German prize. Having been articled to the engineer Hawkshaw, d'Avigdor in 1862 went first to Hull, then to Rangoon (Burma) in connection with his professional work. He supervised the construction of railways in Syria and in Transylvania, and of water-works in Vienna. He became a director of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company.
He was a member of the West London Synagogue, and later of the Bevis Marks Synagogue.
Active in the AJA, he was a founder and enthusiastic leader of the Chovevei Zion movement in Britain, designing its banner and framing the rules of its central committee.
It was d'Avigdor's railway experience added to his interest in Palestine as chief of the Chovevi Zion Association which led him to contract in railway work in Syria and to form the Tyrian Construction Company.
Gaining some experience in literary work in connection with "Vanity Fair," he bought the "Examiner." He subsequently brought out a paper called the "Yachting Gazette." Under the pseudonym of "Wanderer," d'Avigdor published huntingstories of merit, being himself rider to hounds. D'Avigdor was a warden of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, and served on several committees. He was chief of the Chovevei Zion Association, in which movement he took the keenest interest; joining this in 1891 he helped to consolidate it, and was instrumental in bringing it into connection with similar associations on the Continent. He was a member of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association from 1871 until his death.
He married a daughter of Bethel Jacobs of Hull, by whom he had one son and five daughters. The son, Osmond d'Avigdor Goldsmid, inherited the Goldsmid estates on the death of Sir Julian Goldsmid.
His daughter Sylvie D'Avigdor (Mrs C B Clapcott; 1873-10 June 1954), translated into English Der Judenstaat (1896), as well as many of Herzl's speeches. Her sister Bernice D'Avigdor (1884-28 August 1941), who became Chairman of the Old Roedeanians' Council, was in charge of all London's ambulance drivers from the WRNS during the First World War; afterwards she headed the Sea Rangers, and worked tirelessly on behalf of refugees from Nazism.