Sir Constantine (Zorzis) Zervoudachi KCMG & Caterno ‘Catino’ (Ambrouzis) Mavrogordato

Family Group Sheet

NameSir Constantine (Zorzis) Zervoudachi KCMG

Birth1822, Chios, Greece/Hellenes

Death4 Jan 1895, Alexandria, Egypt

MemoArgenti says 4 Jnn 1895. Another source 16 Jan 1895.

Burial6 Jan 1895, Alexandria, Egypt

MemoOr 18 Jan 1895.

Note 1Created a baronet (KCMG) 9 Jul 1883 at Queen Victoria’s insistance, against the wishes of the British Foreign Office: he had allowed some of his warehouses in Alexandria to be converted to a hospital by the British army during the 1882 Urabi Uprising.

Note 2He and his wife were the object of much ridicule among the Cavafy family for their pretensions after he received his knighthood. Though they were among the social leaders of the Alexandrian community he was renowned for his meanness.

FlagsZervoudachi 1

FatherZorzis ZERVOUDACHI (~1790-?)

MotherAngeliki Calvocoressi ? (?-?)

Marriage1855, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

SpouseCaterno ‘Catino’ (Ambrouzis) Mavrogordato, 3C5R

Birth4 May 1839, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death14 Jul 1922, Paris, France

Note 1Three additional children died young. She was sometimes mocked for her pretentious attitides: Michael Ralli said, ‘She decks her ugly person with a good lot of gems’. R. Liddell thinks that as a Mavrogordato she should have known better!

Flags***, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Galati, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Ralli (Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Vouro

FatherAmbrouzis (Pandely) Mavrogordato (1804-1880)

MotherLoxandra (Theodoris) Ralli (1821-1913)

Children

1 MAmbrose (Constantine) Zervoudachi, 4C4R

Birthabt 1857

Deathabt 1911

SpouseMarie Kaliarchi (?-?)

Marriage?

ChildrenConstantine (Ambrose) (~1890-)

Marie (Ambrose) (?-?)