Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet (20 June 1856 – 24 May 1912) was a British businessman and politician.
A member of the Sassoon family, he was born in Bombay, India, the eldest surviving son of Sir Albert Sassoon (1818-1896) and Hannah Moise of Bombay, India.
Edward Sassoon graduated from the University of London. He served as a major in the Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars).
In 1887 he married Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865-1909), daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild and Cecile Anspach from Paris. They had two children, Philip Albert Gustave David and Sybil Rachel Bettie Cécile, Marchioness of Cholmondeley.
Edward Sassoon was elected as the Liberal Unionist Party Member of Parliament (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.
He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1896, on the death of his father.
Sasoon died in 1912 at the age of 55. His body was placed in a mausoleum in an Indian style, behind his house at Eastern Terrace, Brighton.
The Sassoon Mausoleum had been built in 1876 by his father as a family resting place. However, there were no more burials after 1933, when it was emptied and sold, becoming first a furniture store, then a decorator's, next a restaurant and finally the ballroom of the Hanbury Arms public house. In 2006, the building was again sold to be converted to a private members' club.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir James Bevan Edwards |
Member of Parliament for Hythe 1899–1912 |
Succeeded by Philip Sassoon |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Albert Abdullah David Sassoon |
Baronet (of Kensington Gore, London) 1896–1912 |
Succeeded by Philip Sassoon |