Background
Sassoon was born in London, to a Jewish family (from India and Iraq on her father"s side, and Germany and France on her mother"s side).
Sassoon was born in London, to a Jewish family (from India and Iraq on her father"s side, and Germany and France on her mother"s side).
On 9 February 1945 she was appointed as Superintendent of the Women"s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and the following year was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She belonged to the prominent Sassoon and Rothschild families. She was the daughter of Sir Edward Albert Sassoon (1856–1912), 2nd Baronet, and Baroness Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865–1909) Sister of Rt. Honorary Sir Philip Sassoon, Personal Computer, 3rd Baronet
Lady Aline Caroline Cholmondeley (5 October 1916 - 30 June 2015) George Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley (24 April 1919 – 13 March 1990) Lord John George Cholmondeley (15 November 1920 – October 1986) The Sybil Sassoon gardens at Houghton were opened to the public in 1996.
In 2008, the garden was named Historic Houses Association and Christie"s Garden of the Year. In "the pool garden", the entwined initials "Steamship" are represented in the outlines of the clipped box-hedge which surrounds plantings of lavender and rosemary.
Sassoon died in Cheshire.