Frederick David Sassoon (1 May 1853 – 4 May 1917) was an India-born

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merchant and banker in Hong Kong and China.

Early life

Sassoon was born in

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on 1 May 1853, Frederick David Sassoon was the eighth son of David Sassoon, founder of the famous firm of merchant and bankers in the East, David Sassoon & Co.

Career

Sassoon spent most of his working life in Hong Kong and was

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of the

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as the representative of the Justices of the Peace from 1884 to 1887. He became Chairman of David Sassoon & Co. in London and also Director of the

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Personal

He married Jeanette (Jenny) Raphael (1859–?), daughter of Edward L. Raphael from another great merchant banking dynasty. They had a son named Ronald Edward David Sassoon (1895–1924), who died of a heart attack while visiting the Bagdad office of David Sassoon & Co.Stanley Jackson: ″The Sassoons – Portrait of a Dynasty″, Secon Edition, William Heinemann Ltd., London 1989, p.199, Frederick David Sassoon left £696,400 when he died on 14 May 1917 at 17

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