Sassoon Eskell

Sir
Sassoon Eskell

KBE
Sir Sassoon Eskell ; KBE
ساسون حسقيل
	Sassoon Eskell
Deputy for the Iraqi Parliament
	In office; 1925–1932
Monarch	Faisal I of Iraq
Constituency	Baghdad
Minister of Finance
	In office; 1 September 1921 – 1925
Monarch	Faisal I of Iraq
Prime Minister	Yasin al-Hashimi; Jafar al-Askari; Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun; Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani
Personal details
Born	Sassoon Eskell; 17 March 1860; Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq
Died	31 August 1932 (aged 72); Paris, France
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Citizenship	Iraqi
Profession	Statesman, Financier

Sir Sassoon Eskell, KBE (17 March 1860 – 31 August 1932) was an Iraqi statesman, financier and politician.^[1] Also known as Sassoon Effendi^[2]^[3] (from Turkish Efendi, a title meaning Lord), he was regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament.^[4] Eskell (Arabic: ساسون حسقيل or ساسون حزقيال) was the first Minister of Finance in the Kingdom and a permanent Member of Parliament until his death. Along with Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence, he was instrumental in the creation and the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq post-Ottoman rule,^[5] and he founded the nascent Iraqi government's laws and financial structure.^[4]

He was knighted by King George V in 1923.^[6]^[7] King Faisal I conferred on him the Civil Rafidain Medal Grade II, the Shahinshah awarded him the Shir-o-khorshi medal and the Ottoman Empire decorated him with the Al-Moutamayez Medal.^[4]

^ "The Scribe – Journal of Babylonian Jewry, October 1986, Issue 20, p.7" (PDF).
^ "The Gertrude Bell Project: Bell's letter to her father dated 14 June 1920".
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^ "The Gertrude Bell Project: Bell's letter to her father dated 1 November 1920".
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[scribe20-1] "The Scribe – Journal of Babylonian Jewry, October 1986, Issue 20, p.7" (PDF).

[2] "The Gertrude Bell Project: Bell's letter to her father dated 14 June 1920".

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[bekhor-4] Bekhor, Gourji C. (1990). Fascinating Life and Sensational Death. Israel: Peli Printing Works Ltd. p. 41.

[5] "The Gertrude Bell Project: Bell's letter to her father dated 1 November 1920".

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