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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = Sir Philip Sassoon
| honorific-suffix    = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=|Bt|GBEm|CMG}}
| image               = Sir Philip Sassoon.jpg
| caption             = Sir Philip Sassoon as a staff officer during the First World War
| office1             = [[First Commissioner of Works]]
| term_start1         = 27 May 1937
| term_end1           = 3 June 1939
| predecessor1        = [[James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope|The Earl Stanhope]]
| successor1          = [[Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury|Herwald Ramsbotham]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1888|12|4|df=yes}}
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1939|6|3|1888|12|4|df=yes}}
| death_place         = [[London]], England
| alma_mater          = [[Christ Church, Oxford]]
| parents             = [[Edward Sassoon]] <br /> [[Aline Caroline de Rothschild]]
| awards              = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]]
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| branch              = [[British Army]]<br />[[Auxiliary Air Force]]
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| rank                = [[Squadron Leader]]
| servicenumber       = 
| unit                = 
| commands            = [[No. 601 Squadron RAF|No. 601 (County of London) Squadron]] (1929–31)
| battles             = [[First World War]]
| mawards             = [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]]<br />[[Knight of the Legion of Honour]] (France)<br />[[Order of the Black Star|Officer of the Order of the Black Star]] (France)<br />[[Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]] (France)<br />[[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Officer of the Order of the Crown]] (Belgium)<br />[[Croix de guerre (Belgium)|Croix de Guerre]] (Belgium)
| birth_name          = Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon
| birth_place         = [[Paris]], France
}}
'''Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet''' (4 December 1888 – 3 June 1939) was a British politician and aristocrat. He served as a staff officer during the First World War, from July 1914 to November 1918.

==Family==
Sassoon was a member of the prominent [[Jewish]] [[Sassoon family]] and [[Rothschild family]]. He was born in his mother's mansion on Avenue de Marigny, [[Paris]]. His father was [[Edward Sassoon|Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet]], MP, son of [[Albert Abdullah David Sassoon]]; his mother was [[Aline Caroline de Rothschild|Aline Caroline]], daughter of Gustave Samuel de Rothschild. His sister was [[Sybil Sassoon]], who married the [[Marquess of Cholmondeley]]. He was a cousin of the war poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]]. He was descended from the banking family of Frankfurt. When aged only nineteen years old his great-grandfather, [[James Mayer de Rothschild|James Rothschild]] was sent to Paris to set up the family business in France. James became wealthy. When he died in 1868 he was buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]. His branch of the Sassoon-Rothschild family kept the Jewish faith, donated to Jewish charities and founded synagogues.

His great-grandfather [[David Sassoon (treasurer)|David Sassoon]] had been imprisoned in Baghdad in 1828, and in 1832 he established his business [[David Sassoon & Co.]] at Bombay. He took advantage of British rule to return to Baghdad to trade. The family eventually established a Head Office at 12, Leadenhall Street, London and a company branch in Manchester. The Sassoons became assimilated Jews, dressing, acting and thinking like Englishmen. The Sassoon brothers, David and Albert, were friends of the Prince of Wales, and built the 'Black Horse' brand. The business came with a baronetcy of Kensington Gore. His father bought Shorncliffe Lodge, in Sandgate Kent, where his cousin [[Mayer Rothschild]] was the MP. His father was not a successful backbencher, but the political influences had a profound effect on young Philip.

He was educated at Farnborough Prep school and [[Eton College|Eton]] before going up to Oxford. At Eton, Sassoon made friends such as [[Denys Finch Hatton|Denys Finch-Hatton]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wheeler |first=Sara |url=http://archive.org/details/tooclosetosunaud0000whee |title=Too close to the sun : the audacious life and times of Denys Finch Hatton |date=2009 |location=New York  |publisher= Random House Trade Paperbacks |isbn=978-0-8129-6892-7}}</ref> Old Etonian [[Arthur Balfour]] recommended the Debating Society to him. His father was also friendly with [[Frances Horner]], wife of [[John Francis Fortescue Horner|Sir John Horner]], a longtime friend of [[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]] who lived at Mells Manor in Somerset. His house master was a member of the secret society of liberals, the [[Young Apostles]].  Also a near contemporary was [[Osbert Sitwell]], the Yorkshireman and author. A French scholar, he learned the language doing classes at Windsor Castle. Sassoon was taught aesthetics by [[Henry Luxmoore]] giving an insight into philosophy and social realism. However he chose to read Modern History at [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. He was one of only 25 Jewish undergraduates, but was invited to join the [[Bullingdon Club]]. He joined the [[Royal East Kent Yeomanry|East Kent Yeomanry]] while still at Oxford and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.

Philip Sassoon entered Parliament in 1912.<ref name="London 1941">{{cite book|title=Who Was Who 1929–1940|date=1941|publisher=A. & C. Black|location=London|page=1197}}</ref> After the death of his relative David Gubbay (1865–1928), Sassoon became [[chairman]] of his family's company, David Sassoon & Co., although his participation in the management of it was only nominal. However, he continued to be a shareholder.<ref>Stanley Jackson: ″The Sassoons – Portrait of a Dynasty″, Second Edition, William Heinemann Ltd., London 1989, p.219, {{ISBN|0-434-37056-8}}</ref>

A 2016 biography, ''Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon'' by [[Damian Collins]], his successor as Member of Parliament for Hythe, provides a great deal of additional information about Sassoon. A summary by ''[[The Guardian]]'' includes this comment:<ref name="theguardian1">{{cite news|author=Richard Davenport-Hines |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/31/charmed-life-damian-collins-review |title=Charmed Life by Damian Collins review – the phenomenal world of Philip Sassoon |work=The Guardian }}</ref><blockquote>Sassoon enjoyed witty gossip, but was never spiteful. He spoke with a clipped sibilant lisp, and liked to relax in a blue silk smoking jacket with slippers of zebra hide. He had fickle, moody fascinations with young men with whom he soon grew bored, but was loyally appreciative of female friends and kept an inner court of elderly, cultivated, ironical bachelors. His sexuality was central to his character and activities, but there is never any hint of sexual activity in the many memories of him. One hates to think that he was as sublimated as he sounds. His restlessness and fatalism, which were notorious among his friends, killed him at the age of 50 in 1939: although his physicians ordered bed rest after a viral infection, he hurtled about in unnecessary gaieties until his body was beyond recovery.</blockquote>

==First World War==
[[File:In train during War (4688520086).jpg|thumb|left|Field Marshal [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Sir Douglas Haig]] and Sir Philip Sassoon in Haig's office on a train, probably in France. It appears to have been taken on the same date as the photograph titled 'Haig in his office on a train', probably in the summer or autumn of 1918.]]

Sassoon served as private secretary to Field Marshal [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Sir Douglas Haig]] during the [[World War I|First World War]] from December 1915<ref>{{London Gazette|date=7 January 1916|issue=29433|page=435|supp=y}}</ref> to 1918.<ref name="London 1941"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Philip Sassoon MP {{!}} British Jews in The First World War - We Were There Too|url=https://www.jewsfww.uk/sir-philip-sassoon-mp-3653.php|access-date=2021-12-13|website=www.jewsfww.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref> Sassoon was present at the meeting on 1 December 1914 at the Chateau Demont at [[Merville, Nord|Merville]] in France, when King [[George V]] and [[Edward VIII|Edward Prince of Wales]] met with [[Raymond Poincaré]], President of France, and the Generals [[Joseph Joffre]], [[Ferdinand Foch]] and [[Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson|Sir Henry Rawlinson]]. The allies showed their determination to fight Germany and the Central Powers. Because of his "numerous social and political connections", Sassoon, at that time a second lieutenant in the [[Royal East Kent Yeomanry]], was in attendance. A square bronze [[Commemorative plaque|plaque]] commemorating the occasion was auctioned in 2012.

==Political career==
[[File:Sir Philip Sassoon, 1923, Oil on canvas.jpg|thumb|Sir Philip Sassoon, [[John Singer Sargent]], 1923]]

He was [[Conservative Party (UK)|Unionist]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)|Hythe]] from 1912, succeeding his father, initially as the "[[Baby of the House]]". As an MP, he advocated aviation and bought his own aeroplane in 1919. In his role as undersecretary in the air ministry, he promoted civilian air travel.<ref name="theguardian1"/>

Sassoon was [[Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister|Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to [[David Lloyd George]] in 1920. Between 1924 and 1929 and again from 1931 until 1937 he served as [[Under-Secretary of State for Air]], and gained much prominence in political circles. He was appointed a Privy Councillor in the [[1929 Dissolution Honours]]. In 1937 he became [[First Commissioner of Works]], a post which he held until his death, aged fifty, two years later.

He idolised the Prince of Wales, and supported the King during the abdication crisis of 1936. According to a review of the 2016 biography, "he wanted international peace at any cost, and convinced himself that Hitler's promises were dependable."<ref name="theguardian1"/>

==Trent Park==
He had a reputation for being one of the greatest hosts in Britain. Although he owned a house at Park Lane, Sassoon arranged for [[Herbert Baker]] to design another home for him in 1912, Port Lympne in Kent. (Decades later, it became the [[Port Lympne Wild Animal Park]].) "It was a unique building, Italianate and Moorish in its influence, built for a voluptuary of the senses who wanted his rooms to be a rapturous medley of strong, exotic colours and filled with the luscious fragrance of flowers. The formal grounds at Port Lympne were like a Hollywood version of Tuscany," according to a summary of his 2016 biography.<ref name="theguardian1"/>

He also owned [[Trent Park]] and hired [[Philip Tilden]] to largely rebuild that mansion located in Cockfosters. Stylistic differences between the two houses illustrate changes in taste among members of British high society of the period. Trent Park possessed a landscape designed by [[Humphrey Repton]] but the existing house was Victorian and undistinguished. Sassoon had the Victorian additions demolished or altered, except for the west service wing, between 1926 and 1931. The projecting wings were added to the entrance (south) front. These modifications led to a large mansion in early Georgian-style.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1000484|desc= Trent Park |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref> It became one of the houses of the age according to one report, "a dream of another world – the white-coated footmen serving endless courses of rich but delicious food, the [[George VI of the United Kingdom|Duke of York]] coming in from golf... [[Winston Churchill]] arguing over the teacups with [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Arthur Balfour|Lord Balfour]] dozing in an armchair, [[Rex Whistler]] absorbed in his painting... while Philip himself flitted from group to group, an alert, watchful, influential but unobtrusive stage director – all set against a background of mingled luxury, simplicity and informality, brilliantly contrived..."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Boothby|first1=Robert|title=I Fight to Live|date=1947|publisher=Gollancz|location=London}}</ref>

This atmosphere, as Clive Aslet has suggested, represented a complete about-face from Sassoon's earlier extravagance at Port Lympne to what Aslet called "an appreciation of English reserve."<ref name="Clive Aslet 1982">{{cite book|last1=Aslet|first1=Clive|title=The Last Country Houses|date=1982|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=978-0300034745|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lastcountryhouse0000asle}}</ref> In the words of Christopher Hussey, at Trent Sassoon caught "that indefinable and elusive quality, the spirit of a country house... an essence of cool, flowery, chintzy, elegant, unobtrusive rooms that rises in the mind when we are thinking of country houses."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hussey|first1=Christopher|journal=Country Life|title=Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil|date=17 January 1931|pages=66–7}}</ref>

Sassoon conducted excavations of Camlet Moat at Trent Park in the 1920s and was reported to have found oak beams which formed the basis of a drawbridge, Roman shoes and daggers as well as mosaic tiles depicting a knight mounted on a white horse. The foundations of a large stone building were also found. [[English Heritage]] refilled the excavations in 1999.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSzHAgAAQBAJ&q=camlet+moat+trent+park+philip+sassoon+drawbridge&pg=PA23 |title=London City of Revelation – C.E. Street – Page 23 |date= July 2011|isbn=9780951596753 |access-date=2019-10-05|last1=Street |first1=C. E. |publisher=Lulu.com }}</ref>

==Port Lympne Mansion==
Neither the eye-popping interiors nor the extravagant gardens at [[Port Lympne Mansion]] could be described as in any way "reserved", or even "English". In fact, one reviewer of a 2016 bio about Sassoon described it as a "sybaritic mansion".<ref name="theguardian1"/> [[Mark Girouard]] has written of the "quiet good taste expected of a country gentleman"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Girouard|first1=Mark|title=Life in the English Country House|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeinenglishcou0000giro|url-access=registration|date=1978|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=978-0300022735}}</ref> against which Philip may have chafed in his younger years, apparently torn between the standards of ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. His [[Ballets Russes]]-inspired dining room at Port Lympne with its [[Lapis lazuli|lapis]] walls, opalescent ceiling, gilt-winged chairs with jade-green cushions, all surmounted by a frieze of scantily-clad Africans, suggests the outsider confidence of a Rothschild and of an openly gay man.<ref name="Clive Aslet 1982" />

Philip Tilden added a bachelor's wing with Moorish courtyard, which Lady Honor Channon, (wife of [[Henry Channon|Chips]]), unkindly likened to a Spanish brothel,<ref name="Clive Aslet 1982"/> to accommodate young airmen from nearby [[Romney Marsh]] flying field – among his other enthusiasms, Sir Philip was himself an aviator – and Tilden's twin swimming pools and monumentally classical garden staircase were in much the same theatrical spirit.

One frequent guest was [[Lawrence of Arabia]].{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

==Flying==
[[File:RMM Percival P-1C Gull Four 2A 03.JPG|thumb|D.2 Gull Four (G-ACGR) displayed in the [[Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History|Brussels War Museum]] in prewar colours and racing number as it was flown by Sassoon in the 1933 [[King's Cup Race|King's Cup]] Race]]
As Secretary of State for Air, Sassoon was Honorary Air Commodore of [[No. 601 (County of London) Squadron]]. The squadron was nicknamed "The Millionaires’ Squadron" because it was reported to have six millionaire members. In 1932 he was enthusiastic about the new [[Percival Gull]] monoplane and ordered his own model powered by a [[Napier & Son|Napier]] Javelin 111 six cylinder engine, with the interior finished in red leather. In this luxurious Gull Four G-ACGR (currently on display at the [[Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History|Brussels Military Museum]]) he competed in the [[King's Cup Race|King’s Cup]] and the [[Folkestone Aero Trophy Race]]. He later became the owner of the first [[Percival Petrel]] two-engine monoplane, completed in 1938.  As Under-secretary of State for Air, Sassoon carried out the first general inspection of British overseas air stations, flying the [[Blackburn Iris]]. Afterwards he wrote ''The Third Route'', published by [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] in 1929, recounting the story of the development of the air route from England to India.

==Honours and decorations==
Sassoon was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG) in 1917.<ref name="London 1941"/> On 7 October 1919, it was announced that Sassoon had been awarded the French [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]] "for distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign".<ref name="LG 3 October 1919">{{London Gazette |issue=31586 |date=3 October 1919 |pages=12401–12405  |supp=y}}</ref> In 1923 he was made [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] (GBE).<ref>Dictionary of National Biography, 1931–40, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1949, p.784</ref>

In 2012 Sassoon's set of decorations was sold at auction.<ref>Spink, February 2005 Medal Newsletter</ref> The decorations included the GBE, made by the court-jeweller Garrard, the CMG neck badge, also by Garrard, [[1914–15 Star]] (engraved Lieut. Sir P.A.D.G.Sassoon. R.E.Kent Yeo.); [[British War Medal]] and [[Victory Medal (United Kingdom)|Victory Medal]] (engraved Major Sir P.A.D.G.Sassoon. R.E.Kent Yeo.); [[King George V Silver Jubilee Medal|1935 Jubilee Medal]] and [[King George VI Coronation Medal|1937 Coronation Medal]] (both engraved A/Cdre Sir Philip Sassoon 601 Squ. A.A.F.); France, a decoration of a Knight of the [[Legion d’Honneur]], a decoration of a Knight of the French Colonial [[Order of the Black Star]]; Belgium, Officer of the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Order of the Crown]]; French [[Croix de Guerre]] and Belgian [[Croix de Guerre]]; mounted in the court style.

==The arts==
He was Chairman of the Trustees of the [[National Gallery]] from 1933 to 1935, and as Minister for Works in the 1930s he was responsible for embellishing many of London's monuments and parks. He was also a trustee of [[British School at Rome]]. As a collector Philip Sassoon was, like many of the Rothschilds, drawn mainly to the English and French 18th century, but he also collected contemporary artists such as [[John Singer Sargent]] and [[William Orpen]].<ref>Agnews press release for An Exhibition of paintings and drawings from the collection of Philip and Sybil Sassoon</ref> A [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamuluk]] glass mosque lamp, once belonging to Sassoon can be found in the collection of the [[Calouste Gulbenkian Museum]] in Lisbon, Portugal.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Calouste Gulbenkian Museum |date=2020 |others=Ana Barata, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian |isbn=978-989-8758-76-7 |location=Lisboa |oclc=1313509687}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Sassoon was said to have lived a [[homosexual]] life.<ref>{{cite news|author=Michael Bloch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/16/double-lives-a-history-of-sex-and-secrecy-at-westminster |title=Double lives – a history of sex and secrecy at Westminster |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> According to a reviewer of a 2016 biography of Sassoon, "his personal life was something that he shut away from the world". There was only a single intimate letter among his personal papers, to "Jack", a travel companion. The reviewer adds, "despite his many gay and bisexual friends, away from 'bohemian circles' it was still a taboo subject (homosexual acts were illegal). Sassoon was consequently regarded as an enigmatic solitary figure".<ref name="highlivingbarnet1">{{cite web|url=https://www.highlivingbarnet.com/host-philip-sassoon-trent-park/ |title=The host with the most: Philip Sassoon of Trent Park |work=Highlivingbarnet.com |date=2016-12-14}}</ref> Another reviewer offered that, "His sexuality was central to his character and activities, but there is never any hint of sexual activity in the many memories of him".<ref name="theguardian1"/>

==Death==
Sassoon died on 3 June 1939, aged 50, of complications from influenza.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sir Philip Sassoon: Death in England|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12135485|work=The Argus|issue=28949|date=5 June 1939|location=Melbourne|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/counties-of-britain/3348666/Counties-of-Britain-Kent-by-Clive-Aslet.html |title=Counties of Britain: Kent by Clive Aslet |newspaper=Telegraph |date=27 March 2006 |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/book-reviews/sassoon-the-worlds-of-philip-and-sybil-43530 |title=Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil |publisher=[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]] |date=2 September 2003 |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> He left an estate valued at [[£]]1,980,892 ({{Inflation|UK|1980892|1939|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) on which [[death duty]] of close on £800,000 was paid. His cousin Hannah Gubbay (1885–1968), the widow of David Gubbay, was the main beneficiary, inheriting Port Lympne, Trent Park and an [[annuity]] of £11,000 ({{Inflation|UK|11000|1939|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).<ref>Stanley Jackson: ″The Sassoons – Portrait of a Dynasty″, Second Edition, William Heinemann Ltd., London 1989, p.246, {{ISBN|0-434-37056-8}}</ref>

After Sassoon's death, he was described by his friend [[Noël Coward]] as "a phenomenon that would never recur". According to biographer [[Damian Collins]] "I think because he died just three months before the [[Second World War]] started, he became part of that lost golden era; war had closed a chapter on that".<ref name="highlivingbarnet1"/>

==References==
===Sources===
* Peter Stansky. ''Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil'' (2003) [[Yale University Press]] {{ISBN|0-300-09547-3}}
* Robert Boothby. ''I Fight to Live'' (1947) [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]] London
* Clive Aslet. ''The Last Country Houses'' (1982) Yale University Press New Haven and London {{ISBN|0-300-03474-1}}
* Christoper Hussey ''Country Life'' article, 17 January 1931 issue, pp.&nbsp;66–7
* Mark Girouard. ''Life in the English Country House'' (1978) Yale University Press New Haven and London {{ISBN|0-300-02273-5}}
* {{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012}}
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