Albert Abdullah David Sassoon
Albert Abdullah David Sassoon · Economics & Business
Built the Sassoon Docks, the first wet docks in Bombay, and endowed the David Sassoon Library and the city's schools.
25 juillet 1818, Bagdad, Empire ottoman — 24 octobre 1896, Brighton, Angleterre
Bombay et Londres
Albert Abdullah David Sassoon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Built the Sassoon Docks, the first wet docks in Bombay, and endowed the David Sassoon Library and the city's schools.
Origins and early life
Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet (1818-1896), eldest son of David Sassoon, was born in Baghdad into the Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon family and raised in British India.
Work and career
On his father's death he took the head of David Sassoon & Sons. In 1874 he set up the Sassoon Spinning and Weaving Company, which opened cotton mills in Bombay, and in 1875 the firm built the Sassoon Docks, the first wet docks in the city; the company also helped found the Imperial Bank of Persia in 1889. He gave heavily to Bombay: the rebuilding of Elphinstone High School, the equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales, many scholarships, the Victoria and Albert Museum of Bombay, and the greater part of the cost of the David Sassoon Library and Reading Room at Kala Ghoda, completed in 1870 and still standing.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1866 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1872, settled in England in 1875, and died at Brighton. He was reburied in 1933 in the Liberal Jewish Cemetery at Willesden.
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Built the Sassoon Docks, the first wet docks in Bombay, and endowed the David Sassoon Library and the city's schools.
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