Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Occupation: Director of Ralli Brothers

Keen gardener, mountaineer and breeder of Airedale Terriers (owned 25 in India) [Christopher Long].

Parents' Residence: 1947, Psychico, Athens, Greece

N.A. Tombazi was a Greek photographer and geologist who on a British Geological Expedition in 1925 apparently sighted a Yeti creature at 15,000 feet in the Himalayas of Tibet, according to wikipedia.

Died:
DOD according to a genealogy website. Not confirmed.

Nicolas married Despina Cleopatra (John) Rodocanachi on 29 Apr 1934 in Poros, Saronic Islands, Greece. Despina (daughter of John (Pandia) Rodocanachi and Hypatia (Nicolas) Fachiri) was born on 14 May 1903 in Alexandria, Egypt; died on 19 Sep 1946 in 18 Astell St., Chelsea, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to references in The Times she was known as Deppy (Christopher Long).

She attended her cousin Virginie Benachi at her 1925 Paris wedding to M. Jean Romanos (see The Times 7 Dec 1925)[Christopher Long].


Residence: at DOD, 100 Marathonodromou St., Psychica, Athens, Greece

Birth:
Sturdza says (presumably wrongly) that Despina Rodocanachi was born Calcutta 29 March 1896 (Christopher Long).

Notes:

A widower he had a subsequent marriage to Virginia (Alexander Emmanuel) Benachi, 28 Apr 1947, who herself had had an earlier marriage to Jean A. (Athos) Romanos in 1925.

Notes:

Occupation: Industrialist

Before his marriage he had an intimate friendship with the American actress Pearl White (1889-1938). They spent much time together in France and at Theodore’s villa in Cairo. He was with her when she died and she left him her house and property in France (Christopher Long).

President of the Greek community in Cairo and of the Greek Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. Owned a stud farm in Les Bréviaires until 1961 where he bred Colonist ll, sold to Winston Churchill ca. 1946 (Christopher Long).

He was the owner of several Rolls-Royces, among them a Phantom II (Chassis No. 57RY) which may have been destined for the King of Greece. Another Phantom II (146 MY) was also delivered to Theodore but may have been for the King. Theordore was also the owner of two other Rolls-Royce Phantom lll (3DL102 and 3DL142) (Christopher Long).

Aide-de-camp to Prince Andrew of Greece. He provided friendship and help to the exiled King George ll of Greece during WWll when he was in Egypt (before he settled in South Africa) (Christopher Long).

Theodore married Despina (Alexander) Benachi on 04 Jul 1940. Despina was born on 17 Jan 1917 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died on 02 Apr 1996 in Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery, Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Appears in a Vlasto family holiday photograph dated 1927 at Overstrand, England, with her brother Manoli, Cyril and Fanny Argenti, and the Vlasto children Helen, Christian, Pogy and Nancy (Christopher A Long’s collection).

Lived in France from 1949