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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Sassoon family, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Hotung, Matthew Nathan, Allan Zeman, David Sassoon, Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, Sassoon Mausoleum, Rachel Beer, Victor Sassoon, Michael Kadoorie, George Sassoon, James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon, Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, of Kensington Gore, Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, Ellis Kadoorie, Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, Sassoon Baronets, Elly Kadoorie, Isaac S.D. Sassoon, Sassoon David Sassoon, Horace Kadoorie, Percival David, Kadoorie family, Elias David Sassoon, Solomon David Sassoon, Sassoon J. David, Aline Caroline de Rothschild, Thornycroft family. Excerpt: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, author 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 the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a pointless war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy." Siegfried Sassoon was born and grew up in the neo-gothic mansion "Weirleigh," in Matfield, Kent, to a Jewish father and an Anglo-Catholic mother. His father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861-1895), son of Sassoon David Sassoon, was a member of the wealthy Baghdadi Sephardic Jewish Sassoon merchant family. For marrying outside the faith he was disinherited. His mother, Theresa, belonged to the Thornycroft family, sculptors responsible for many of the best-known statues in London-her brother was Sir Hamo Thornycroft. There was no German ancestry in Siegfried's family; his mother named him Siegfried because of her love of Wagner's operas. His middle name, Loraine, was the surname of a clergyman with whom...
Hong Kong Jews: Sassoon Family, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Hotung, Matthew Nathan, Allan Zeman, David Sassoon, Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet