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George Thornycroft Sassoon (30 October 1936 – 8 March 2006) was a British scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author. Early life [ edit ] Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his wife Hester Gatty, who were living mainly at Heytesbury House in Wiltshire , but was born in Westminster , where his ...
George Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who struggled with his sexuality and his marriage. He became an electronics engineer, a radio man, and a number theorist, and inherited his father's literary estate.
Siegfried Sassoon's only child, George Sassoon, died of cancer in 2006. George had three children, two of whom were killed in a car crash in 1996. His daughter by his first marriage, Kendall Sassoon, is patron-in-chief of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, established in 2001.
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Mar 17, 2006 · George Sassoon. 17 March 2006 • 12:10am. George Sassoon, who has died aged 69, was the son, and only child, of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, and attained distinction as a scientist,...
The Manna Machine is a 1978 book by George Sassoon and Rodney Dale, based upon a translation of the section of the Zohar called The Ancient of Days that concludes that a machine had created algae as food for human beings in biblical times.
Sassoon is one of the sixteen Great War poets commended on a slate stone in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. He was also the subject of Memorial Tablet, an audio CD of readings by Sassoon that was recorded during the late 1950s. His son, George Sassoon, died of cancer in 2006.
His son George Sassoon became a notable scientist and linguist. By the end of the Second World War (1939-45) Sassoon’s marriage had broken down and he and Hester separated. Sassoon moved to Heytesbury in Wiltshire where he lived in seclusion for the rest of his life, but maintained a close circle of friends.
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