Goldsmid, Frederic

Title

Sir

First name(s)

Frederic

Surname

Goldsmid

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Professor of Persian (1889-)

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• King’s College School
• King’s College, London ^{Ref: *1}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Commissioned ensign in the East India Company’s army (1839)
• Lieutenant, 37^th Madras native infantry (1840)
• Interpreter, Hindustani (1845), Persian (1849) and Arabic (1851)
• Promoted to Captain (1851)
• Assistant Adjutant-General of the Nagpur Subsidiary Field Force
• Deputy Collector in the Civil Service
• Assistant Commissioner for the settlement of alienated lands in the province of Sind
• Volunteer in the Crimea 
• Promoted to Brevet Major  (1856)
• Staffer for Sir Bartle Frere, Chief Commissioner of Sind
• Superintendent for carriage of telegraph wires across Persia to Baluchistan (India) 
• Superintended construction of telegraph line across Persia
• Promoted to Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel (1863)
• Promoted to Major (1864)
• Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel (1865)
• Colonel (1870)
• CB (1866)
• Commissioner for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Persia and Baluchistan (1871)
• Created KCSI in (1871)
• British Representative on the International Commission in to Indian immigration in Réunion
• Controller of Crown Lands (Daira Sanieh, Eqypt) (1880-1883)
• Administrateur Délégué de L'Association International, Belgian Congo ^{Ref: *1}

 

Professional activities

• Army Officer and writer
• Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society (1885-1887)
• Vice-President, Royal Asiatic Society (1890-1905)
• Member, Royal Geographical Society ^{Ref: *1}

Publications

• Travel and Telegraph (1874)
• Life of Sir James Outram (1880)

Personal details

Date of birth

19 May 1818

Place of birth

Milan

Date of death

12 January 1908

Place of death

29 Phoenix Lodge Mansions, Brook Green, Hammersmith

Family details

Only son of Lionel Prager Goldsmid. Married to Mary Steuart, their having two sons and four daughters. ^{Ref: *1}