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SASSOON, SIR ALBERT ABDULLAH DAVID, BART
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See also:SASSOON, See also:SIR See also:ALBERT ABDULLAH See also:DAVID, See also:BART . (1818-1896), See also:British See also:Indian philanthropist and See also:merchant, was See also:born at See also:Bagdad on the 25th of See also:July 1818, a member of a Jewish See also:family settled there since the beginning of the 16th See also:century, and previously in See also:Spain. His See also:father, a leading Bagdad merchant, was driven by repeated See also:Anti-Semitic outbreaks to remove from Bag-dad to See also:Bushire, See also:Persia, and, in 1832, he settled in Bombay where he founded a large banking and See also:mercantile business. Albert .Sassoon was educated in See also:India, and on the See also:death of his father became See also:head of the See also:firm. He was a See also:great benefactor to the See also:city of Bombay, among his gifts being the Sassoon See also:dock, completed in 1875, and a handsome proportion of the cost of the new See also:Elphinstone High School. In 1867 he was made a C.S.I., and in 1872 a See also:Knight of the See also:Bath. In 1873 he visited See also:England and received the freedom of the city of See also:London. Shortly afterwards he settled in England, and was made a See also:baronet in 1890. He died at See also:Brighton on the 24th of See also:October 1896. End of Article: SASSOON, SIR ALBERT ABDULLAH DAVID, BARTAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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