Sir Julian Goldamid, M.P. for South St. Pancras, and perhaps
the ablest of the occasional Chairmen of Committees in the House of Commons, died on Tuesday at the comparatively early age of fifty-seven, when he had just been elected Vice- Chancellor of the University of London, but, as we believe, before he had ever exercised his functions in that capacity. He had been seriously ill for some months from the malady which has now terminated his life. Sir Julian was a very able as well as a very wealthy man, and was most effective in pushing forward business in the House when the regular Chairman of Committees, exhausted by his great exertions, was absent from his post. Sir Julian's knowledge of the forms of the House, and his keen insight into the various devices and the various personalities that boded mischief and waste of power to the Commons, was profound. He had, too, a very determined will, and a kind of grit, which could occasionally display itself in grittiness. His large fortune (the settled part of which descends to Mr. Osmond Elim D'Avigdor, who is still a minor at Trinity College, Cambridge) placed very great resources in his hands, which were used freely both in the service of his Jewish fellow-countrymen and in forming remarkable collections of paintings. He was a first- rate man of business till his health warned him that he could not safely draw too much on his great energies. Also he gave a good deal of time to the affairs of the London University, which showed its regard for him by making him its vice- chancellor on the retirement of Sir James Paget. He will be much missed in public life.
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