Sir Sassoon Eskel

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First Minister of Finance of the nascent Kingdom of Iraq (1920-1923 and 1924-1925). Scion of an old and wealthy Jewish family, his father Hakham Heskel built a synagogue . Sasson studied in Istanbul and Vienna. Deputy for Baghdad in the Ottoman Parliament (1908-1918), member of a Turkish delegation to London in 1909 and under-secretary of state for Trade and Agriculture. Returned to Baghdad in 1920 and was Minister of Finance in the first Iraqi administration. Represented Iraq with Ja'far Pasha the Minister of Defence at the Cairo Conference of 1921, which under Winston Churchill the new British Colonial Secretary, chose the Emir Faisal to be king of Iraq and constituted the Emirate of Trans-Jordan (subsequently the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) for Faisal's brother Emir Abdullah. Member of Parliament (1925) until his death in Paris. Appointed K.B.E by King George V (1923).

Sir Sassoon ESKELL 1860-1932
- father Hakham Heskel SHLOMO-DAVID (died 1909)
- mother Messouda SHLOMO

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