OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 130, 5 June 1939, Page 9

OBITUARY

SIRPHILIP SASSOON

LONDON, June 4,

The death has occurred of Sir Philip Sassoon, P.C, G.8.E., C.M.G., First Commissioner of Works since 1937.

Sir Philip Sassoon was born in 1888 and was the third baronet, succeeding his father in 1912. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. On coming down from Oxford he at once entered the House of Commons as M.P. for the Hythe "Division of Kent, and for several years enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest M.P. He was a trustee of the National Gallery, the Wallace Collection, the Tate Gallery, and the British School at Rome.

He held office as Under-Secretary for Air from 1924 to 1929, and was reappointed in 1931 when the National Government was formed and again

when Mr. Baldwin replaced Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. In 1937 he became First Commissioner of Works. Sir Philip probably knew many army secrets, for he was private secretary to Sir Douglas Haig from the end of 1915 until 1918, He was mentioned in dispatches three times and awarded decorations by four countries (he held the French Military Cross, was an Officer of the Order of the Black Star of France, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour). He was made a P.C. in 1929, a C.M.G. in 1917, and a G.B.E. in 1922. There is no heir to the title. ,