Edward Sassoon

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Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet (June 20, 1856 – May 24, 1912) was a British businessman and politician. The eldest surviving son of Sir Albert Sassoon (1818-1896) and Hannah Moshi of Bombay, India, Edward Sassoon graduated from London University. He served in the Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars).

In 1887 Sassoon married Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865-1909), daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild. They had the following children:

Philip Albert Gustave David (1888-1939)
Sybil Rachel Bettie Cécile, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1894-1989)

Sassoon was elected as the Liberal Unionist Party MP for Hythe in March 1899. Active in Jewish community affairs, he served as a vice-president of Jews' College, London and the Anglo-Jewish Association.

After his death his body was placed in a purpose-built mausoleum, with architecture in an Indian style, behind his house at Eastern Terrace, Brighton. The Sassoon Mausoleum was built in 1876 by Sir Albert Sassoon (1818 - 1896) as a family resting place but when there were no more burials after 1933 when it was emptied and sold, becoming first a furniture store, then a decorator's, then a restaurant and was later converted into the ballroom of the Hanbury Arms public house. In 2006, this building was again sold and is to be converted to a private members' club.