Philip Sassoon
Philip Sassoon · Economics & Business
Under-Secretary of State for Air, First Commissioner of Works, and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery.
4 décembre 1888, Paris — 3 juin 1939, Angleterre
Londres et Kent
Philip Sassoon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Under-Secretary of State for Air, First Commissioner of Works, and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery.
Origins and early life
Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet (1888-1939), was born in Paris in his mother's house on the Avenue de Marigny. He belonged to two Jewish dynasties at once: his father was Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, MP, grandson of the founder David Sassoon, and his mother Aline Caroline was a daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild; the branch kept the Jewish faith, gave to Jewish charities and founded synagogues.
Work and career
The war poet Siegfried Sassoon was his cousin. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he served as a staff officer throughout the First World War, from July 1914 to November 1918, and entered Parliament.
Later years
He was Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1924 to 1929 and again from 1931 to 1937, at the period when the Royal Air Force was being rebuilt, and in 1937 became First Commissioner of Works, a post he held until his death at fifty. As Minister for Works he was responsible for the embellishment of many of London's parks and monuments, and he was Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery from 1933 to 1935.
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Under-Secretary of State for Air, First Commissioner of Works, and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery.
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