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The twentieth-century English poet, one of the best known World War I poets, Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was David's great-grandson. [6] James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon. James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon, born as James Meyer, is a British banker and former Treasury's commercial secretary.
After the Second World War David Sassoon & Co. was "a shadow of the firm it had been at the turn of the caentury". In 1982 David Sassoon & Co. was sold for around £2 million to the London stockbroker Rowe Rudd. Although now fully controlled by Rowe Rudd, David Sassoon & Co continued to operate independently from an office in Haymarket in ...
Sassoon was born in August 1832 in Bombay, India. [1] [2] He was a member of the Sassoon family. His father was David Sassoon (1792–1864), a leading trader of cotton and opium who served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829, and his mother was Farha Hayim of Baghdad. [1] He suffered from poor health from infancy but travelled ...
In 1865, the Sassoons supported the formation of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and in the early 1870s David Sassoon & Co. took first place in the supply of opium from Hong Kong to China, overtaking its main competitor, Jardine Matheson & Co. [17] [8] In October 1879, the company suffered a disaster—its coal warehouses in the ...
David Sasson, Israeli diplomat; David of Sassoun, a fictional character in the Armenian war poem Daredevils of Sassoun; Frederick David Sassoon (1853–1917), English merchant; Reuben David Sassoon (1835–1905), English merchant; Solomon David Sassoon (1915–1985), English educator; Solomon David Sassoon (1841–1894), (1841–1894), English ...
Elias David Sassoon (27 March 1820 – 21 March 1880), an Indian merchant and banker born in Baghdad, was the second son of David Sassoon, an Iraqi-Indian philanthropist Jewish businessman involved in trade in India and the Far East, with branches at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong; and his business, which included a monopoly of the opium-trade, extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki ...
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David Sassoon (October 1792 – 7 November 1864) [1] was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. He became the leader of the Jewish community in Mumbai after Baghdadi Jews emigrated there. Life and career