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At the age of 18, he married a cousin Farha Reuben (1838–1919) of Mumbai, daughter of Solomon Reuben Sassoon of Baghdad. She later changed her name to Flora in England. They had four children giving rise to his grandchildren as follows:
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He served as president of a committee which had for its object the organization of an expedition to the
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who served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829, and his mother was Farha Hayim of
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Joseph Sassoon Sassoon (1855–1918); married Louise de Gunzburg, a daughter of
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The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
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National Anglo-Jewish Heritage Trail: Brighton & Hove
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He went to London in 1858, where he opened a bank on
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Gentleman's Magazine, London, Obituary: 24 June 1867
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David Sassoon
Bombay
India
Langham Hotel, London
Jewish Cemetery, Mile End
David Sassoon
Sassoon family
British Indian
Iraqi
Bombay
Sassoon family
David Sassoon
cotton
opium
Baghdad
Talmudic
Oriental languages
Shanghai
David Sassoon, Sons & Co.
Leadenhall Street
American Civil War
Jews in China
Abyssinia
Jews' College
Jews' Free School
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Horace Günzburg
Rachel Sassoon (later Beer)
Julius Beer

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