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	\| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[~~British~~ India]]		\| birth_place = [[Mumbai\|Bombay]], [[Company rule in India\|India]]
	\| death_date = 1867		\| death_date = 1867
	\| death_place = [[Langham Hotel, London]], UK		\| death_place = [[Langham Hotel, London]], UK
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	'''Sassoon David Sassoon''' (August 1832 – 24 June 1867) was a British businessman, banker and philanthropist.		'''Sassoon David Sassoon''' (August 1832 – 24 June 1867) was a [[British Indians\|British Indian]] businessman, banker, and philanthropist.

	==Biography==		==Biography==

	===Early life===		===Early life===
	~~'''~~Sassoon ~~David Sassoon'''~~ was born in August 1832 in [[Bombay]], India.<ref name="palgrave">William D. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 865 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA864]</ref><ref name="jewishencyclopedia">[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13218-sassoon Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> He was a member of the [[Sassoon family]]. His father was [[David Sassoon (treasurer)\|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]].<ref name="palgrave"/> He suffered from poor health from infancy but travelled widely.<ref>Gentleman's Magazine, London, Obituary: 24 June 1867</ref>		Sassoon was born in August 1832 in [[Bombay]], India.<ref name="palgrave">William D. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 865 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA864]</ref><ref name="jewishencyclopedia">[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13218-sassoon Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> He was a member of the [[Sassoon family]]. His father was [[David Sassoon (treasurer)\|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]].<ref name="palgrave"/> He suffered from poor health from infancy but travelled widely.<ref>Gentleman's Magazine, London, Obituary: 24 June 1867</ref>

	He was educated in biblical and [[Talmudic]] lore in Baghdad.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/> He also spoke several [[Oriental languages]] with great fluency.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/>		He was educated in biblical and [[Talmudic]] lore in Baghdad.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/> He also spoke several [[Oriental languages]] with great fluency.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/>
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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	*{{cite DNB \|wstitle=Sassoon, Albert Abdullah David \|volume=50 \|first=Edward Irving \|last=Carlyle}}		*{{cite DNB \|wstitle=Sassoon, Albert Abdullah David \|volume=50 \|first=Edward Irving \|last=Carlyle}}
			*{{Cite book \|last1=Sassoon \|first1=Joseph \|title=The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty \|date=2022 \|publisher=Allen Lane \|isbn=978-0-241-38864-8}}

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'''Sassoon David Sassoon''' (August 1832 – 24 June 1867) was a British businessman, banker and philanthropist.

==Biography==

===Early life===
'''Sassoon David Sassoon''' was born in August 1832 in [[Bombay]], India.<ref name="palgrave">William D. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 865 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA864]</ref><ref name="jewishencyclopedia">[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13218-sassoon Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> He was a member of the [[Sassoon family]]. His father was [[David Sassoon (treasurer)|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]].<ref name="palgrave"/> He suffered from poor health from infancy but travelled widely.<ref>Gentleman's Magazine, London, Obituary: 24 June 1867</ref>

He was educated in biblical and [[Talmudic]] lore in Baghdad.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/> He also spoke several [[Oriental languages]] with great fluency.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/>

===Business career===
He proceeded to [[Shanghai]], where he conducted the mercantile operations of the Chinese branch of the firm of [[David Sassoon, Sons & Co.]]<ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/> He went to London in 1858, where he opened a bank on [[Leadenhall Street]].<ref name="palgrave"/><ref name="jewishencyclopedia"/> The business grew exponentially during the [[American Civil War]], as they suddenly became the main suppliers of cotton to British spinning mills and the British market.<ref name="palgrave"/>

===Philanthropy===
He served as President of a committee which had for its object the organization of an expedition to the [[Jews in China]], [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]], and the East. He was also a member of the council of [[Jews' College]] and of the committee of the [[Jews' Free School]], which two institutions he munificently endowed.<ref name="palgrave"/> He was also a warden of the [[Bevis Marks Synagogue|Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue]].<ref name="palgrave"/> For several years, he acted as examiner in Hebrew to the Jews' Free School.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

===Personal life===
At the age of 18, he married a cousin Fahra Reuben (1838–1919) of Mumbai, daughter of Solomon Reuben Sassoon of Baghdad.<ref name="palgrave"/> She later changed her name to Flora in England. They had four children giving rise to his grandchildren as follows:
*Joseph Sassoon Sassoon (1855–1918; married Louise de Gunzburg, a daughter of [[Horace Günzburg]]
**Sassoon Joseph Sassoon (1885-1922), army officer
**Arthur Meyer Sassoon, army officer
**Frederick Sassoon, army officer
**4 other grandchildren
*[[Rachel Sassoon Beer|Rachel Sassoon (later Beer)]], editor, (1858–1927; married Frederick Arthur Beer, son of [[Julius Beer]]).<ref name="palgrave"/>
*Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895; married [[Theresa Thornycroft]]
**Michael Thorneycroft Sassoon (1884-1969)
**[[Siegfried Sassoon]]
**Hamo Watts Sassoon, army officer, (1887 - killed 1 Nov 1915)
*Frederick Meyer Sassoon (1862–1889)
**two granddaughters
They lived at [[Ashley Park]] in [[Walton-on-Thames]], [[Surrey]] and equally at 17 Cumberland Terrace next to Regent's Park in [[St Pancras, London]].<ref name="palgrave"/> He died in 1867 in [[London]], leaving an estate of £120,000 ({{Inflation|GBP|120000|1867|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).<ref name="palgrave"/> Later, Flora moved to 37 [[Adelaide Crescent]] in [[Hove]], [[East Sussex]].<ref>[http://www.jtrails.org.uk/trails/brighton-and-hove/history?page=2 National Anglo-Jewish Heritage Trail: Brighton & Hove]</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite DNB |wstitle=Sassoon, Albert Abdullah David |volume=50 |first=Edward Irving |last=Carlyle}}

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