Louisa Goldsmid
Lady Louisa Goldsmid | |
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Born | Louisa Sophia Goldsmid 2 September 1819 |
Died | 7 December 1908 London | (aged 89)
Nationality | British |
Known for | advocacy of women's higher education |
Title | Lady |
Spouse |
Francis Henry Goldsmid (m. 1839; died 1878) |
Relatives | Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (uncle) |
Lady Louisa Sophia Goldsmid (2 September 1819 – 12 June 1908) was a British philanthropist and education activist who targeted her life at improving education provision for British women. She took a leading role in persuading Cambridge University to create women graduates.
Life
She was born into a privileged Anglo-Jewish family who were closely related to other Jewish families who organised British Jewry. She continued her community's habit of
She joined the ladies' committee of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
In 1859 she became Lady Louisa Goldsmid when her husband inherited the title of second baronet. She became involved with the
After Sir Francis Goldsmid died the pianist Agnes Zimmermann moved into the Goldsmid household and they were close friends. Zimmermann was said to have shared eighteen years of "devoted attention" with Goldsmid and it has been speculated that this was a lesbian relationship.[3]
In 1881 the leaders of the Jewish community in London were being criticised for not campaigning against
Goldsmid died at 13 Portman Square on 7 December 1908.[5] This was her London home and previously a meeting place for society with Goldsmid as hostess.[1] Goldsmid left a statue title "Lost Innocence" by Emilio Santarelli to UCL.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e Geoffrey Alderman, 'Goldsmid, Louisa Sophia, Lady Goldsmid (1819–1908)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Sept 2015
- ^ a b Louisa Goldsmid, Bloomsbury Project, Retrieved 10 October 2015
- ISBN 978-0-252-02740-6.
- ISBN 978-0-415-65983-3.
- ISBN 978-1-349-51951-4.
- ^ Siddall,R., Kirk, W.& Robinson, E., 2014, The Urban Geology of UCL and the University of London;urban Geology in London No.1, 20 pp., pdf