| Code | DS/UK/1744 |
| Dates | 03/03/1852-21/09/1921 |
| Person Name | Cassel; Sir; Ernest (03/03/1852-21/09/1921) |
| Surname | Cassel |
| Forenames | Ernest |
| PreTitle | Sir |
| Activity | Merchant banker; entered the banking house of Bischoffscheim and Goldsmid in London (1870-1884); opened hos own firm (1884) received the distinctions of K.C.M.G. (1889), of K.C.V.O. (1902), a privy councillorship (1902), G.C.M.G. (1905), G.C.V.O. (1906) and G.C.B. (1909); owner of race horses and art collector; founded and endowed the Cassel Hospital near Richmond, London (1919). |
| History | Apprentice at the bank of J.W.Eltzbacher in Cologne (1868-). |
| Source | "Cassel, Ernest", in: Lexikon des Judentums, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, 1971,p.140; URL: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thegrove/cassel.html> [accessed 16/08/2011] |
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