Siegfried Sassoon
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1915
Sassoon (front) with his brother Hamo and other students on the morning after a college May Ball at Cambridge University in 1906
Portrait of Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
An agreement from Arthur Quiller-Couch to Sassoon to write for the Daily Herald
Sassoon family
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The Sassoon family were a wealthy Baghdadi Jewish dynasty, associated with finance, banking, capital markets, the exploration of oil and gas, Judaism, Conservative politics, opium trading and philanth
Siegfried Sassoon
…Harrison Weir) in Matfield, Kent. His father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895), son of Sassoon David Sassoon, was a member of the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant family. Siegfried's mother, Theresa, belonged to the Thornycroft family, sculptors responsible for many of the best-known statues in London; among them her…
Sassoon House, Shanghai, China
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdallah) & Sassoon David
The Sassoon Docks, Mumbai, India
Tomb of David Sassoon, Pune, India