Quote Originally Posted by mkuyt View Post
Another Goldsmid company was the 'grafton, goldsmid & Co', paris, with gasworks in Passy and Versailles. Who was mr. Grafton?
A report of a court case, Gibson v. Goldsmid, of 1854, begins

'Some time previous to the execution of the indenture hereinafter stated, the plaintiff Thomas Cummings Gibson, the defendant Edmund Elsden Goldsmid, and one John Grafton, with several other persons, carried on business in several copartnershsips. On the 16th of September 1851, an agreement was entered into for dissolving several of these partnerships as regarded the defendant Goldsmid. Disputes having arisen as to the effect of this agreement, and litigation having ensued, an indendure was executed with a view to winding up the affairs of these partnerships...'

The report goes on to talk about shares in the Compagnie d'Eclairage d'Escheveiler.

From 'The Equity Reports, 1854-5: reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Chancery....' edited by George French and published in 1855 (online via Google Books).