At about this time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon ; it was short lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello " was a consummate flirt who collected lovers as he gathered lilacs.

Not About Heroes is a drama by Stephen MacDonald about the real-life relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982.

The first Jew who arrived there was Elias David Sassoon, who, about the year 1850, opened a branch in connection with his father's Bombay house.

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, a documentary film about his life, was released in 2010.

A handwritten letter to the Heralds literary editor Siegfried Sassoon from Arthur Quiller-Couch, about the possibility of Quiller-Couch writing for the paper

There is also an implication ( given the pun on Rivers's name along with other factors ) that Rivers was more to Sassoon than just a friend, he called him " father confessor ", a point that Jean Moorcroft Wilson picks up on in her biography of Sassoon, however Rivers's tight morals would have probably prevented such a relationship from progressing:

Sassoon ( Patient B in Conflict and Dream ), remained particularly friendly with Rivers and regarded him as a mentor.

There is a whole chapter devoted to Rivers and he is immortalised by Sassoon as a near demi-god who saved his life and his soul.

Rivers was much loved and admired, not just by Sassoon.

The life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by Pat Barker in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneration ( 1991 ), The Eye in the Door ( 1993 ) and The Ghost Road ( 1995 ).

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, Regeneration, is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer, Billy Prior, and the real-life psychoanalyst, William Rivers.

In contrast with upper-class officers like Sassoon, with whom Rivers has been able to form warm friendships, he has always found Prior to be a thorn in his side.

A large part of the book is taken up by his experience of the First World War, in which Graves served as a lieutenant then captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, alongside his equally famous comrade Siegfried Sassoon.

Jews took a considerable part in developing trade in China, and several served on the municipal councils, among them being Silas Aaron Hardoon, partner in the firm of E. D. Sassoon & Co., who served on the French and English councils at the same time.

In 2009, he featured on the song " Army of the Damned ", part of the debut album Beneath the Veiled Embrace by UK power-metal band Pythia, reading the poem " Suicide in the Trenches " by Siegfried Sassoon.

Operation Sassoon provides a basic generic framework for an emergency evacuation plan of any part of London, or Heathrow, in the case of a major terrorist attack in the British capital.

On October 25th 2004, Paul Goodman, Conservative MP for Wycombe, tabled a Parliamentary question in the House of Commons which was answered by Nick Raynsford MP, the then Minister of State for Local and Regional Government, on plans to use High Wycombe as a care shelter as part of Operation Sassoon.

One newspaper sent a telegram to MacDonald stating that: " To prevent the socialist government from being spoilsports, Lady Houston will be responsible for all extra expenses beyond what Sir Philip Sassoon ( President of the Royal Aero Club ) says can be found, so that Great Britain can take part in the race for the Schneider trophy.

The poet Siegfried Sassoon spent the latter part of his life at Heytesbury House, which he purchased in 1933.

In his autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man ( published in 1928 ), Siegfried Sassoon comments that his mother was " always intending to go to a matinee of Beerbohm Tree's new Shakespearean production ".

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928 by Faber and Faber.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

A series of books by the English poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon, consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress.

* 1928 Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

In 1928, Sassoon, by then a famed war poet, published Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of his George Sherston trilogy.

It is an autobiography of his early years presented in the form of a novel, with false names being given to the central characters, including Sassoon himself, who appears as " George Sherston ," and his mother (" Aunt Evelyn ").

He edited volumes of the letters of the playwright Oscar Wilde, the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, and the writer George Moore, as well as the diaries of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the autobiography of Arthur Ransome.

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

Humphrey F. Sassoon has compared the theme issued by Frederick II to the theme of an A minor fugue ( HWV 609 ) by George Frideric Handel, published in Six fugues or voluntarys for organ or harpsichord.

* Papers of Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, Ernest Rutherford, George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Needham, G. E. Moore and Siegfried Sassoon, among others.

* 1978: George Sassoon and Rodney Dale ( book, Manna Machine )

The magazine included literary contributions by Siegfried Sassoon, John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, and Arnold Bennett.

He is also the official biographer of Siegfried Sassoon, appointed by Sassoon's son George.

Sassoon was present at the meeting on the First of December 1914 at the Chateau Demont at Merville in France, when King George V and Edward Prince of Wales met with Poincare, President of France, and the Generals Joffre, Foch and Rawlinson.

Sassoon and his designers turned it into one of the houses of the age, " a dream of another world-the white-coated footmen serving endless courses of rich but delicious food, the Duke of York coming in from golf ... Winston Churchill arguing over the teacups with George Bernard Shaw, Lord Balfour dozing in an armchair, Rex Whistler absorbed in his painting ... while Philip himself flitted from group to group, an alert, watchful, influential but unobtrusive stage director-all set against a background of mingled luxury, simplicity and informality, brilliantly contrived ..." This atmosphere, as Clive Aslet has suggested, represented a complete about-face from Sassoon's earlier extravagance at Port Lympne to what Aslet called " an appreciation of English reserve.

Indy also encounters ( in no particular order ) Edgar Degas, Giacomo Puccini, George Patton, Pablo Picasso ( same episode as Degas ), Eliot Ness, Charles Nungesser, Al Capone, Manfred von Richthofen, Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Norman Rockwell ( same episode as Degas and Picasso ), Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Sean O ' Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, Patrick Pearse, Winston Churchill, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud ; at one point, he competes against a young Ernest Hemingway for the affections of a girl, is nursed back to health by Albert Schweitzer, has a passionate tryst with Mata Hari, and goes on a safari with Theodore Roosevelt.

Perhaps the area's most noted modern residents have been George Sassoon ( author, linguist and son of the poet Siegfried Sassoon ) and Siegfried's wife, the former Hester Gatty.

Accompanying George, who was by then chasing fast planes-in addition to his numerous women-Marthe flew everywhere: the United Kingdom ( she counted among her friends the Duke of Devonshire Edward Cavendish, the Duke of Sutherland George, Vita Sackville-West, Philip Sassoon, Enid Bagnold, Violet Trefusis, Lady Leslie and Rothschild family members ), Belgium, Italy ( where she met Benito Mussolini in 1936 ), the Italian colony of Tripolitania ( Libya ), Istanbul, the United States ( in 1934, as guests of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor ), Raguse, Belgrade and Athens.

* Sassoon, George, " The ancient of days: deity or manna-machine?

Members of the PPU have included Vera Brittain, Benjamin Britten, Clifford Curzon, Alex Comfort, Eric Gill, Ben Greene, Laurence Housman, Aldous Huxley, George Lansbury, Kathleen Lonsdale, Reginald Sorensen, George MacLeod, Sybil Morrison, John Middleton Murry, Peter Pears, Max Plowman, Arthur Ponsonby, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Donald Soper, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Tippett and Wilfred Wellock.

His son George Sassoon grew up there and inherited the house, which he eventually sold.