Elias David Sassoon
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אליהו דוד ששון | |
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Elias David Sassoon (27 March 1820 – 21 March 1880), an Indian merchant and banker born in Baghdad, was the second son of David Sassoon, an Iraqi-Indian philanthropist Jewish businessman involved in trade in India and the Far East, with branches at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong; and his business, which included a monopoly of the opium-trade, extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki, and other cities in Japan.
He was the first of his siblings to assist the family business's expansion into
In 1878 he established the Jewish Cemetery, Chinchpokli,[2] in memory of his son Joseph, who had died at Shanghai in 1868.[3]
Elias died in
See also
- Sassoon family
- David Sassoon & Co.
- E.D. Sassoon & Co.
- Victor Sassoon
- Ohel Leah Synagogue, Hong Kong was named after his wife Leah, founded with donations from Jacob's brothers.
References
- ISBN 0-434-37056-8
- ^ Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, Rachel Dwyer, eds. Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos (Oxford University Press, 15 August 2019), p. 11
- ^ “The Mausoleums of Sassoon family and Jewish cemetery in Chinchpokli”, in My Heritage Chronicle, 13 January 2020
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