Sir Edward Albert Sasson, the oldest member of the famous Anglo-Jewish Indian family, called the “Rothschilds of the East”, died today at the age of seventy-one.
Sir Edward, who was very active in Jewish communal life, was president of the London Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, vice-president of the Jews’ College and of the Anglo-Jewish Association. He was a grandson of David Sassoon, the founder of the firm of Sassoon in Bombay.
Sir Edward Sassoon’s contributions to charity were as generous as those of his grandfather, David Sassoon, in memory of whom a memorial was erected in the Bombay Town Hall in 1864.
Edward Albert Sassoon was born June 20, 1856, in Bombay. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1896. He was agraduate of the London University, a major in the Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars Yoemanry and a deputy lieutenant. In 1899 he was elected to parliament. He was married to Aline, daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild.
The funeral will take place here today. Captain Ellis Sassoon, Sir Edward’s eldest son, succeeds to the title.
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