Edward Sassoon

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.