Catalogue description SASSOON, PHILIP (SIR)

Personal property records

Sassoon, Sir, Philip Albert Gustave David, 1888-1939, 3rd Baronet of Kensington Gore

Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd baronet, G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., (1888-1939), was Under-Secretary for Air and First Commissioner of Works. He served as trustee of the National Gallery, Wallace Collection and Tate Gallery.

The Trent Place or Park estate was part of the Enfield Chase estates and from 1909 was leased by Sir Edward Sassoon bart. His son, Sir Philip Sassoon, purchased it from the duchy of Lancaster in 1922 and in 1926 began to make extensive changes to the house. In the 1930s Trent Place was noted for its exotic furnishings and for Sassoon's lavish entertainments, patronised by royalty. (Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, Vol.5., p.232.)