George Thornycroft Sassoon (30 October 1936 – 8 March 2006) was a British scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author.
[2] George's father wrote playfully to Max Beerbohm in November 1936: "Will he, I wonder, become Prime Minister, Poet Laureate, Archbishop of Canterbury, or merely Editor of The Times Literary Supplement?
Sassoon investigated extraterrestrial phenomena and helped his mother run a sheep farm on Mull.
He found it much neglected and worked to restore it, and also battled unsuccessfully to stop a planned A36 bypass from going through the park of the house; in the process, he sold many of his father's papers to raise additional funds.
The southern part of the park was subject to a compulsory purchase order in 1985[4] to allow construction of the bypass, separating the house from its cricket field and requiring a new entrance to be made from the west.