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   Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet GBE (20 December 1881 – 13 August 1961) [1] was an Italian businessman and hotelier from the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family.

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3. www.jpost.com › international › article-793223Kate Middleton’s disappearance spotlights Sassoon family's ...

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   Mar 22, 2024 · Sassoon married George Cholmondeley, Earl of Rocksavage, when she was 19, bore him three children and, when she died in 1989, was buried in a church on the grounds of their estate, Houghton...

4. www.nytimes.com › 2014/10/05 › travelThe Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai - The New York Times

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   Revisiting the legacy of Sir Victor Sassoon, who decades ago transformed the skyline of the Chinese city.

5. www.jta.org › 2024/03/21 › globalKate Middleton’s woes cast a spotlight on Jewish Sassoon ...

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   Mar 21, 2024 · Sassoon married George Cholmondeley, Earl of Rocksavage, when she was 19, bore him three children and, when she died in 1989, was buried in a church on the grounds of their estate, Houghton...

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   It was Victor Sassoon’s finest moment, persuading the suspicious Japanese military (who captured Shanghai in 1937) into resisting German pressure to eliminate the refugees.

7. www.sixthtone.com › news › 1010830From Baghdad to the Bund: The Family That Built Shanghai

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   Jul 22, 2022 · But the Sassoon whose legacy looms largest in Shanghai wasn’t David or Elias. That would be Elias’ grandson, Victor Sassoon. Born in 1881, Victor was injured in the First World War, leading some in China to refer to him as “Lame Sassoon.”

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   Who was Victor Sassoon?

   • Chinese Civilians with Japanese Soldiers at Checkpoint (1937), a photograph by Victor Sassoon taken in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon was born 20 (some sources cite 30) December 1881 in Naples, Kingdom of Italy while his family was en route to India.

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   Who was Sassoon & what did he do?

   • The scion of a Baghdadi Jewish family, educated at Harrow and Cambridge, Sassoon shifted the headquarters of a family empire built on opium and cotton from Bombay to Shanghai, initiating the real estate boom that would make it into the Paris of the Far East.

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   Was Victor Sassoon a'mischievous Hollywood Playboy'?

   • It was Victor Sassoon’s finest moment, persuading the suspicious Japanese military (who captured Shanghai in 1937) into resisting German pressure to eliminate the refugees. Nazi leader Hermann Göring branded him a “mischievous Hollywood playboy”. Kaufman pulls no punches in his overall assessment.

   The Last Kings of Shanghai — masters of the Bund - Financial Times

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   Did Victor Sassoon recover?

   • Victor Sassoon never recovered but the Kadoories had hedged their bets and invested early enough in Hong Kong to start again. Kaufman is less sure-footed on India and Britain, describing Bombay and London less precisely than Shanghai. The intricacies of the British class system, important to both clans, catch him out.

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9. www.spectator.co.uk › article › masters-of-the-opiumMasters of the opium trade: the fabulous wealth of the Sassoons

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   Saleh Sassoon had been chief treasurer to the governor of Iraq; but, threatened by the political convulsions of the waning Ottoman empire, he fled Baghdad east to Persia in the 1820s, after...