David Lionel Salomons, 2d baronet
1851–1925
Landowner and inventor. BA, Cambridge, 1873. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1874. Magistrate for Kent, 1874; high sheriff, 1881; mayor of Tunbridge Wells, 1895. Took out patents for railway signalling, electric lamps, current meters, electric circuits, electric magnets, pressure gauges, vacuum tubes, electric torches, and electromotor apparatus. A founder of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and first chairman of the City of London Electric Lighting Company, 1891. Assumed by royal licence the surname of Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons in 1899. Succeeded his uncle as second baronet in 1873.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
