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Sassoon David Sassoon
Sassoon David Sassoon (August 1832 – 24 June 1867) was a British Indian Iraqi businessman, banker, and philanthropist. Sassoon was the first member of the Sassoon family to expand the family's business interests into England. Biography Early life Sassoon was born in August 1832 in Bombay, India.William D. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 86/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. He suffered from poor health from infancy but travelled widely. He was educated in biblical and Talmudic lore in Baghdad. He also spoke several Oriental languages with great fluency. Business career He proceeded to Shanghai, where he conducted the mercantile operations of the Chinese branch of the firm of David Sassoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sassoon (treasurer)
David Sassoon (October 1792 – 7 November 1864) was a Baghdadi Jewish merchant and philanthropist. David Sassoon served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. Fleeing persecution, Sassoon and his family emigrated to Bombay, British India. He became the leader of the Jewish community in Mumbai after the Baghdadi Jews emigrated to the city. Sassoon was the founder of the Sassoon family and the founder of David Sassoon and Sons, which later became David Sassoon & Co., a trading company owned by his family. Sassoon's success as a merchant made him known as the "Merchant Prince of Bombay". Sassoon also used his wealth for various philanthropic and architectural projects. Early life and career David Sassoon was born in 1792 in Baghdad, Ottoman Empire. His father, Sheikh Sassoon ben Saleh (1750–1830), was a wealthy businessman, who had also served as the chief treasurer to the pashas (the governors of Baghdad), and served as the president (''Nasi'') of the city's Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leadenhall Street
__NOTOC__ Leadenhall Street () is a street in the City of London. It is about and links Cornhill, London, Cornhill in the west to Aldgate in the east. It was formerly the start of the A11 road (England), A11 road from London to Norwich, but that route now starts further east at Aldgate. Leadenhall Street has always been a centre of commerce. It connected the medieval market of Leaden Hall with Aldgate, the eastern gate in the Roman city wall. The East India Company had its headquarters there, as later did P&O. By the mid 20th century, grand stone-faced offices lined the street. Today it is closely associated with the insurance industry and particularly the Lloyd’s of London, Lloyd's insurance market, with its dramatic building in the adjacent Lime Street. It forms part of a cluster of tall buildings including the 48-storey 122 Leadenhall Street and the 38-storey The Scalpel, Scalpel. Other buildings planned for the street include the 57-storey 100 Leadenhall, the 50-storey Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Park, Surrey
Ashley Park is a private residential neighbourhood at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey. Its central feature was a grandiose English country house, at times enjoying associated medieval manorial rights, which stood on the site, with alterations, between 1605 and the early 1920s. Its owners included Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset, in the 18th century and members of the Sassoon family around the turn of the 20th century. The bulk of the estate was developed into detached houses in the inter-war period, often rebuilt since in a modernist style with American influences; older examples tend to be in the Arts and Crafts style, its principal local exponent being Walter George Tarrant. Houses sold by its development company are more strictly subject to covenants mandating low density residential development. History Former house and owners of the estate The manor here was recorded in forms similar to and including Asshlees in 1433 in the hands of Joan widow of Robert Constable who hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period, Sassoon met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy. Early life Siegfried Sassoon was born to a Jewish father and an Anglo-Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Thornycroft
Theresa Thornycroft (1853 – July 1947) was an English sculptor and painter. Biography Born Theresa Georgina Thornycroft, she was a member of the inventive and artistic branch of the Thornycroft family. Her father was the sculptor and engineer Thomas Thornycroft (1815–1885), and her mother, the sculptor Mary Francis (1814–1895), worked under both her maiden name and her married name. Theresa's brother Sir Hamo Thornycroft was also a sculptor, her sisters Alyce Thornycroft and Helen Thornycroft were artists, and her brother Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company. Her niece was the naval architect Blanche Thornycroft. A gifted artist, she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before she turned twenty-two. She married Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895) of the Jewish Sassoon family. Because she was Anglo-Catholic, he was disinherited by the Sassoon family for marrying her. They had thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Beer
Julius Beer (1836–1880) was a German-born English businessman, banker and newspaper baron. He owned '' The Observer'' from 1870 to 1880. Biography Early life Julius Beer was born in 1836 in Frankfurt, Germany. Career Beer made his fortune in the London Stock Exchange. He was a member of the London Banking Association. In 1870, he purchased ''The Observer'' newspaper, which he owned until his death in 1880. Personal life Beer was married to Thyrza Beer (died 1881). They had a son and a daughter: *Frederick Arthur Beer (died 1901; married Rachel Sassoon (1858–1927)). *Ada Sophia Beer (1867–1875, died aged 8 years old) The main sculpture by Henry Hugh Armstead inside the Beer Mausoleum at Highgate Cemetery represents this young girl being protected by an angel. Beer died in 1880. His mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery has been listed as Grade II since 14 May 1974. It was designed by the French/Dutch architect William Bouwens van der Boijen (1801–1907). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Sassoon Beer
Rachel Beer (''née'' Sassoon; 7 April 1858 – 29 April 1927) was an Indian-born British newspaper editor. She was editor-in-chief of ''The Observer'' and ''The Sunday Times''. Early life Rachel Sassoon was born in Bombay, India, to Sassoon David Sassoon, of the Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant family, one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century; her father was known as the "Rothschild of the East". As a young woman, she volunteered as a nurse in a hospital. In 1887, she married the wealthy financier Frederick Arthur Beer, son of Julius Beer (1836–1880), and converted to Christianity. Frederick, an Anglican Christian, was also from a family of ethnically Jewish converts to Christianity. In the wake of her conversion, the family disowned her. The Beers had their roots as a banking family in the Frankfurt ghetto. In the UK, they were financiers whose investments included ownership of newspapers. Journalism career Soon after she married Frederick, she began contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Günzburg
Horace Osipovich (Naftali-Gerts) Günzburg (; 8 February 1833 – 2 March 1909), 2nd Baron Günzburg, was a Russian philanthropist. Rise to prominence He was born in Zvenigorodka. Günzburg received his education at home in Zvenigorodka. After the Crimean War, his father, Joseph Günzburg, then a wealthy merchant and army contractor, settled with his family in St. Petersburg. Günzburg first came before the public in 1863 as one of the founders of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia, Society for the Spread of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia, the only society of the kind in Russia. He was one of the charter members of the society, and after the death of his father in 1878 succeeded him in the presidency. He was the largest contributor to its support and one of its most energetic workers. The work which made him so widely popular among the Jews was his unremitting effort, in which frequent appeals to the Russian government were involved, toward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Bevis Marks Synagogue, officially Qahal Kadosh Sha'ar ha-Shamayim (), is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located off Bevis Marks, Aldgate, in the City of London, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation is affiliated to London's historic Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community and worships in the Nusach Sefard, Sephardic Nusach (Jewish custom), rite. Built in 1701, the Grade I listed building is the Oldest synagogues in the United Kingdom, oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom in continuous use. It is the only synagogue building in Europe that has continuously held regular services for more than 320 years. History Construction The origins of the community date from an influx to London of Crypto-Judaism, crypto-Jews, or so called Marranos, from Spain and Portugal, mostly via the growing Sephardi Jews, Sephardi Jewish community in Amsterdam, in the early seventeenth century. These Jews began practisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews' Free School
JFS (formerly known as the Jews' Free School and later Jewish Free School) is a Jewish mixed comprehensive school in Kenton, North London, England, and was founded in 1732. Amongst its early supporters was the writer and philanthropist Charlotte Montefiore. At one time it was the largest Jewish school in the world, with more than 4,000 pupils. Location The school moved from Camden Town to a new site in Kenton in 2002 to represent the demand of London's Jewish population moving further out towards the suburbs. The school is within the jurisdiction of the London Borough of Brent, while its postal town is Harrow. Staff Headteachers Other staff *Michael Adler taught Hebrew at the school in the late-19th century. Houses and other traditions JFS operates the house system and has four houses for organisational purposes. Students must wear a tie with stripes in their house colour. Both Brodetsky and Zangwill were former students, Angel was a previous and long-serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews' College
The London School of Jewish Studies (commonly known as LSJS, originally founded as Jews' College) is a London-based organisation providing adult educational courses and teacher training to the wider Jewish community. Many leading figures in British Jewry have been associated with the School, including Michael Friedländer, Principal from 1865 to 1907; Isidore Epstein, Principal 1948–1961; Louis Jacobs, Moral Tutor 1959–1961; Jonathan Sacks (later Lord Sacks), Principal 1984–1990 and in recent years Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth. Translation works, including for Tanach and the Talmud, were made by "Scholars involved with Jews' College." History The London School of Jewish Studies was founded as Jews' College in 1855, a rabbinical seminary in London. The organisation was re-focused and given its present name in 1999, with an emphasis on providing a broader range of adult educational courses and training to the wider Jewish community. The rabbinic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of . , it has around 128 million inhabitants, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, thirteenth-most populous country in the world, the List of African countries by population, second-most populous in Africa after Nigeria, and the most populous landlocked country on Earth. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African Plate, African and Somali Plate, Somali tectonic plates. Early modern human, Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out for the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
