Early Years
Salomons was born at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, on 4 November 1836 as Julian Emanuel Solomons. He came to Australia aged 16 years on board the Atalanta on 4 September 1853. He was employed in a book shop and as a stockbroker's clerk. In 1855 he was appointed the secretary of the Great Synagogue at Sydney.
After passing the preliminary examination of the Barristers Admission Board (now the Legal Profession Admission Board) in 1857, he returned to England in 1858 where he entered Gray's Inn and was called to the bar on 26 January 1861. He returned to Sydney and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar on 8 July 1861 and then returned to England to marry his cousin, Louisa Solomons, at Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, England, on 17 December 1862.
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