Leopold Salomons

Leopold Salomons
Born
Leopold Solomons

(1841-05-14)14 May 1841
Pentonville, London
Died23 September 1915(1915-09-23) (aged 74)
Norbury Park, Surrey
NationalityBritish
OccupationCity financier
Spouses
  • Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1869–1879 (her death)
  • Annie Martha Cooke 1882–1915 (his death)

Leopold Salomons (14 May 1841 – 23 September 1915) was a city financier and company director active in the City of London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1] Salomons was born into a British Jewish family, but it has been suggested that he later converted to Christianity.[2] Today he is primarily remembered for his purchase of Box Hill in 1914 to protect it from development.

  1. ^ Hawkins, RA (2012). "Salomons, Leopold (1841–1915)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. ^ Hawkins, RA (2007). "American Boomers and the Flotation of Shares in the City of London in the Late Nineteenth Century". Business History. 49 (6): 802–822. doi:10.1080/00076790701710282. S2CID 153446872.