Disappearance of Sky Metalwala
Solomon said he believed that his son was alive, but perhaps not in the U.S. In spring of 2011, after the visit to the doctor that was the last independent record of Sky's presence outside of Biryukova's household, he recalled that her estranged father came from Ukraine to visit her. He wondered to the "Weekly" if the older man could have taken the boy back to that country with him at the time. But in 2013, he said that he did not know how that could have happened.
Richard Solomon (barrister)
He married Mary Walton in 1881 and they had one daughter.
Sir Richard Solomon was part of a large and influential Cape family, of St Helenan Jewish descent. Members of the Solomon family were heavily involved in Cape politics, were physically all extraordinarily tiny in stature, but included some of the greatest legal minds in southern Africa. The great Cape Colony politician Saul Solomon was Sir Richard's uncle, and his brother was the Transvaal politician Edward Phillip Solomon.