Their success in this trade prompted other Bombay business houses to ... After David Sassoon's death in 1864, his son Elias David Sassoon (E.D. Sassoon) took over his own company in 1872 ...
Born in London in 1894 to a father who was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) and a French mother from the Rothschild family, Sassoon was part of a generation of very affluent Jews who transitioned from ...