Alexander Constantine (Constantine) Ionides^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1810 - 1890  (80 years)

• Name	Alexander Constantine (Constantine) Ionides
  Birth	20 Aug 1810	London, England UK
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Nov 1890	Windycroft, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK
  	Death notice appeared in The Times (London) 13 Nov 1890. Estate valued at £28874 18s. 10d.; will proved by sons Constantine, Luke and Alexander. [5]
  Burial	14 Nov 1890	Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK
  	Archimandrite D. Plesas officiating [6] He is not listed for the Ionides family vault.
  Notes	A.C. Ionides signed a published petition in favor of the building of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Manchester Times and Gazette 20 Sep 1845. General Consul of Greece (1854-1866). The 1881 England census: 1 Holland Park, Kensington, London, household headed by Alexander C. Ionides, 70, retired merchant and late cousul general of Greece, naturalized British subject; wife Euterpe, 64, both b. Constantinople; grandsons Andrew A., 4; Ambrose A, 2 3/4; George A. 1 3/4; granddaughter Aglaia, 6 months, all b. London; & 6 servants; and adjacent at 1a Holland Park, household headed by Theodore John Coronios, 54, merchant, b. Constantinople, British subject; wife Aglaia [daughter of Alexander and Euterpe], 45, b. London, Finsbury Circus; daughter Calliope, 24; son John, 23, both b. Tulse Hill, London; & 3 servants. The 1871 England census: Oxbridge Road, Holland Park, Kensington, London, household headed by Alexander Constantine Ionides, 60, wine merchant, naturalized British subject; wife Euterpe, 54, both b. Constantinople; daughter Charidee A., 27; b. Tulse Hill, & 2 servants. Among 130 members of London's 'Greek Colony' who attended a dinner in honor of Greece's former Prime Minister, M. Tricoupis, including J.M. Agelasto, Stephen A. Ralli, A. P. Petrocochino, M. Zarifi, Constantine A. Ionides, P. Vagliano, E. Petrocochino, M.E. Rodocanachi, A.S. Rosetto, J. Bolli, F.H. Zarifi, L. Lambriandi [perhaps Leonidas Lambrinudi], D. Ancelotti, M. Ziffo [perhaps Miliades L. Ziffo], Alex. Constantinidi, P. Paspatti, N. Raftspulo, The. Burlumi, D. Constantinidi, L. Calvocoressi, A. Vagliano, A.J.C. Ralli, D. Cavafy, D.S. Schilizzi, M. Spartali, and J.D. Loverdo ([London] Observer, 11 Oct 1885). A. Ionides, Greek Consul-General in London, was in a delegation at Buckingham Palace to congratulate Princess Sophie of Prussia on her marriage to the Crown Prince of Greece (The Observer, 9 Dec 1888, p 3). Occupation: banker. Founded the Discount Bank, London, in 1833, which failed in 1854; followed by Ionides & Co. [7] Alexander C. Ionides, 17 Gracechurch St., London, is listed among the 96 Greek members of the Baltic Exchange 1860-69, along with Alexander A. Ionides at the same address. Founders of the Greek Orthodox Cemetery at West Norwood included John Stephen Schilizzi, Eustracio Ralli, Antonio Ralli [likely Antonios (Alexander) Ralli] and Alexander Constantine Ionides. Calapodis lists John Schilizzi, Antonios Ralli and Eustratios Ralli. [8] Residence, England: 1871, Oxbridge Road, Holland Park, London; 1881, 1 Holland Park, Kensington, London; at DOD Windycroft High Wickham, Hasting, Sussex.
  Person ID	I3109	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family	Euterpe (Lucas) Sgouta,   b. 20 May 1816, Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey d. 11 Feb 1892, Windycroft, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1832	London, England UK
  Children	+ 1. Aglaia (Alexander) Ionides,   b. 20 Dec 1834, London, England UK d. 20 Aug 1906, 1a Holland Park, London, England UK (Age 71 years) + 2. Alexander (Alexander) Ionides,   b. 14 Jan 1840, Tulse Hill, London, England UK d. 31 Jul 1898, London, England UK (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F1315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Aug 1810 - London, England UK Marriage - 1832 - London, England UK Death - 10 Nov 1890 - Windycroft, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK Burial - 14 Nov 1890 - Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Ionidis Family Alexandros Ionidis, his wife Efterpi Sgouta, with children Alekos, Aglaia, Constantinos and Loukas; from the website: Greek and linked European Families
  		Alexander Constantine Ionides © Christopher Long: ChristopherLong.co.uk.
  		1 Holland Park, Kensington, London photo 2009; the site is now occupied by the Greek Embassy; earlier structures were destroyed by fire. Previously a nursing home, owned by the local Council, sat here. From about 1880 - 1905 the Alexander C. Ionides family lived here.
  		1 Holland Park, Kensington, London The Embassy of Greece
  		Alexander C. Ionides residence: no. 1 Holland Park, London © Christopher Long: ChristopherLong.co.uk.
  		Alexander C. Ionides residence: no. 1 Holland Park, London interior detail; © Christopher Long: ChristopherLong.co.uk.

  
  

  Documents		West Norwood Cemetery Register for tomb 4322
  		Alexander Constantine Ionides 1890 Probate

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Jonathan Harris, Greeks In Pre-Twentieth Century London, (untold London website), 2006. [S113] Caroline Dakers, "The Ionides - Patrons in Holland Park", (Yale University Press, 1999). [S127] 1871 England Census. [S126] 1881 England Census. [S82] UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1858-1966, 1973-1995. [S68] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), Aug 1977, 4. Records of Burials at West Norwood Cemetery [S17] Sturdza, Mihail-Dimitri, Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique Genealogique ... Grece, (self, Paris, 1983), 152. [S59] Michel Calapodis, LA COMMUNAUTÉ GRECQUE À MARSEILLE, (Paris:L'Harmattan (link)), 224, note 573.