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Name: GOLDMAN, Charles Sydney
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1868 Cape Colony
Death Date: 7 Apr 1958 British Columbia
First Date: 1906
Profession: Mining
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Sandy, Beds. 11 Feb 1899 Hon. Agnes Mary Peel b. 25 Feb 1869 London, d. 27 Feb 1959 Merritt, British Columbia (dau of Ist Viscount Peel)
Children: Hazel Ella (14 Nov 1903 London-1946); John Goldman Monk Monck (24 Jan 1908 Newhaven-1999); Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck (27 May 1910 Rottingdean-1987)
Book Reference: Drumkey, Thurston, EA & Rhodesia, Wikipedia, Who's Who, North
General Information:
Thurston - CO 533, 378/2 - 1928-29 - Mwatate-Voi concession: rights of C.S. Goldman
Thurston - CO 533, 385/3 - 1929 - Mwatate-Voi Concession: agreement to lease by C.S. Goldman
EA & Rhodesia - 17/4/58 - Mr Charles Sydney Goldman, who has died in British Columbia at the age of 90, was for long active in the mining industry of the Transvaal, and was the author of several books on the development of the South African mining industry. Before the 1914-18 war he had mining, farming, and other interests in Kenya. Born in Cape Colony in 1868, he was a special correspondent with Sir Redvers Buller's relief column to Ladysmith during the South African war, and then remained with the column as a cavalryman. He founded the weekly paper "Outlook" in England, and from 1910 to 1918 sat in the House of Commons as Unionist MP for Penryn and Falmouth. He had married in 1899 the Hon Agnes Mary Peel, second daughter of the first Viscount Peel.