“ Sir Frederic returned to England after his Persian mission and devoted himself to the preparation of his voluminous report on Eastern Persia and to other literary work. From his knowledge of Persia and of the events that led up to the Mutiny, which has been first predicted by his old chief, John Jacob, Sir Frederic Goldsmid was entrusted with the execution of the Life of Sir James Outram, the Bayard of India, a work that met with considerable success. ”

“ His death leaves a further gap in the fast thinning ranks of officers who served under the old East India Company, and there are few if any now living who could say, as he could, that he served it for more than 20 years. Born at Milan, in August, 1818, the only son of Mr. Lionel P. Goldsmid, an officer in the 19th Dragoons, and a scion of the well-known City family of that name. Sir Frederic, after completing his education in Paris and at King's College, entered the Madras army in the year 1839, when our first Afghan war was in progress, but he was not among those who fought in that campaign. ”

“ From 1865 to 1870 he held the post of Government director of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, and during those six years he personally superintended the erection of the poles and the carrying of the wires across the whole extent of the Shah's kingdom. ”