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.