NameConstantine Alexander (Alexander) Ionides, GG Grandson
Birth14 May 1833, Manchester, England
MemoSturdza says London.
Death29 Jun 1900, Hove, Sussex, England
Burial2 Jul 1900, Hove Cemetery, Brighton, Sussex, England
Residence1 Holland Park, Kensington, London, England
MemoResidence.
Residence20 Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London, England
MemoMay or may not have lived there.
Residenceabt 1864, 8 Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London, England
MemoMay or may not have lived there.
ResidenceOakwood, Crayford, Kent, England
MemoA residence.
Residence1881, 23 Second Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England
MemoA residence.
Residence1866, (Office) Ionides & Barker, 37 Threadneedle Street, City of London, England
Residence1877, (Office) Ionides & Co, 2 Copthall Buildings, City of London, England
OccupationMerchant and stockbroker.
OriginConstantinople.
Note 1Art collector & patron of artists such as Legros, Watts and Meadows. Left an estate worth £155,657.00 in 1900. Lived with his family in Constantinople till 1864, then returned to London and bought 8 Holland Villas Road, owned for more than 30 years.
Note 2In the Ionides Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, are 6 portraits of members of the Ionides Family and a small picture of the whole Ionides family together, all by Watts. A member of the Building Committee for St Sophia, London.
Note 3On his retirement he bought a 40-acre estate called Oakwood at Crayford, Kent, which he sold before 1881 when he moved to 23 Second Avenue, Hove. His portrait was painted by G. F. Watts R.A. in 1880 (Ionides Collection, V&A, London).
Note 4In 1870 Constantine Ionides commissioned the architect and designer Philip Webb (1831-1915) to design an extension for 8 Holland Villas, London, and Webb later worked for more than a decade at the Ionides's main house at 1 Holland Park.
Flags***, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Ionides, Petrocochino, Scanavi, Sevastopoulos