Aline Caroline de Rothschild, Lady Sassoon (21 October 1867 – 28 July 1909) was a French
socialite
A socialite is a person from a wealthy and (possibly) aristocratic background, who is prominent in high society. A socialite generally spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings, instead of having traditio ...
and daughter of Cécile Anspach and
Baron Gustave de Rothschild of the
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...
.
She was born in Paris, where her parents had a house on Avenue Marigny. In 1887, aged 19, she married
Edward Sassoon
Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet (20 June 1856 – 24 May 1912) was a British businessman and politician.
Early life
A member of the Sassoon family, he was born on 20 June 1856 in Bombay, India. He was the son of Hannah Moise and Albert A ...
(later Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Bt.) (1856–1912). They had two children:
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Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt. (1888–1939)
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Sybil Rachel Bettie Cécile, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1894–1989)
Her great-great-grandson is actor
Jack Huston
Jack Alexander Huston (born 7 December 1982) is a British actor. He appeared as Richard Harrow in the HBO television drama series '' Boardwalk Empire''. He also had a supporting role in the 2013 film '' American Hustle'', portrayed the eponym ...
.
See also
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Rothschild banking family of France
The Rothschild banking family of France (french: Famille banquière Rothschild) is a French banking dynasty founded in 1812 in Paris (at the time in the First French Empire) by James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868). James was sent there from ...
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English socialites
Aline Caroline de Rothschild
Aline Caroline de Rothschild
19th-century French Jews
1867 births
1909 deaths
Wives of baronets
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