[1] Rachel Sassoon lived in England as a young woman, and helped her widowed mother run her late father's business in India, from 1894 until 1902.

[4] In 1938, she wrote a greeting to the members of the Parliament of the World's Religions, when the group met in Calcutta.

[8][9][10] "She was distinguished for her philanthropy and social service, and achieved communal and national recognition in these spheres," summed Percy Sassoon Gourgey in a 1953 memorial tribute.

[11] Rachel Sassoon married banker and community leader Sir David Elias Ezra in 1912.

"The marriage of Rachel and David Ezra represented the coming together of India's two most powerful Jewish families," commented historian Elizabeth E. Imber in a 2018 article.