Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet JP DL (28 January 1851 – 19 April 1925) was a British scientific author, barrister and pioneer of road transport.

He was a JP, DL and Sheriff (1880) of Kent, mayor and alderman of Tunbridge Wells, county councilor for the Tonbridge division of Kent for 15 years, J.P. for London, Middlesex, Sussex, and Westminster, and chairman (1896–1900) and joint managing director (1915–23) of the City of London Electric Lighting Company.

In 1924 Salomons donated the "Duc de Praslin" to the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, but it was subsequently stolen.

Three years later, on the night of 15 April 1983, the Mayer Institute was burgled and 106 rare timepieces were stolen, including the entire Salomons collection.

The case remained unsolved until 2006 when a Tel Aviv watchmaker tipped off Israeli police that he had paid US$40,000 to an anonymous person to purchase 40 timepieces, including the missing "Marie Antoinette".

Forensic experts examined the timepieces they recovered and detectives questioned the lawyer who negotiated the sale; their investigation led police to an Israeli woman living in Los Angeles, Nili Shamrat, whom they identified as the widow of Naaman Diller, the notorious Israeli criminal who carried out the burglary and then fled to Europe, before settling in the United States.

[6] Sir David Salomons was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a part-time Territorial Force unit, on 6 November 1908.

[7][8] His only son and heir, David Reginald Herman P. Salomons, served as an officer in the unit[9] and commanded 3rd Kent Fortress Field Company as a captain during World War I.