jul 18, 1922 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of
Burma Married Edwina Cynthia Annette
Ashley granddaughter Sir Ernest Cassel
(Banker) and the principal heir to his fortune
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Sir Ernest Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (now part of Germany), the son of Amalia (née Rosenheim) and Jacob Cassel. His family were Ashkenazi Jews. His father owned a small bank, but the son Ernest arrived penniless in Liverpool, England in 1869. There he found employment with a firm of grain merchants. With an enormous capacity for hard work and a strong business sense, Cassel was soon in Paris working for a bank. Being of Prussian origin, the Franco-Prussian War forced him to move to a position in a London bank. He prospered and was soon putting together his own financial deals. His areas of interest were in mining, infrastructure and heavy industry. Turkey was an early area of business ventures, but he soon had large interests in Sweden, the United States, South America, South Africa, and Egypt. He was among the financiers of the Aswan Dam built in Egypt between 1899 and 1902, and was present in Egypt for the opening of the dam in December 1902
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