Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, KCB, CSI, (1818-1896), a British Iraqi philanthropist and merchant, was born in Baghdad on 25 July 1818, a member of a family settled there since the beginning of the 16th century, and previously in Spain. He was named Abdullah at birth, but changed his name to Albert later in life. His father, David Sassoon a leading Baghdad merchant, was driven by repeated anti-Semitic outbreaks to move from Baghdad to Bushire, in Iran, and, … Wikipedia
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