BART

See also:

• SIR

SIR

See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT ABDULLAH

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• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID

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• BART SIR ALBERT ABDULLAH DAVID SASSOON

SASSOON  . (1818-1896), British Indian philanthropist and merchant, was born at Bagdad on the 25th of July 1818, a member of a Jewish family settled there since the beginning of the 16th century, and previously in Spain . His father, a leading Bagdad merchant, was driven by repeated Anti-Semitic outbreaks to remove from Bag-dad to Bushire, Persia, and, in 1832, he settled in Bombay where he founded a large banking and mercantile business . Albert .Sassoon was educated in India, and on the death of his father became head of the firm . He was a great benefactor to the city of Bombay, among his gifts being the Sassoon dock, completed in 1875, and a handsome proportion of the cost of the new Elphinstone High School . In 1867 he was made a C.S.I., and in 1872 a Knight of the Bath . In 1873 he visited England and received the freedom of the city of London . Shortly afterwards he settled in England, and was made a baronet in 1890 . He died at Brighton on the 24th of October 1896 .