Eustratius (Emmanuel) Mavrogordato & Elsie Josephine Russell (Charles) Napier-Bell

Family Group Sheet

NameEustratius (Emmanuel) Mavrogordato, 5C2R

Birth21 Feb 1870, Kensington, London, England

Death6 Nov 1946, London, England

MemoIn a nursing home.

Baptism28 Apr 1870, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England

Residence1939, 8 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, London, England

OccupationBarrister (Inner Temple) and literary critic. Worked for over 30 years with blinded officers at St Dunstan’s.

EducationOxford.

Note 1See his lengthy obituary in The Times, 8 November 1946. Tim Jones says that he was Evelyn Waugh’s favourite critic.

Note 2In 1900 he inherited £8,000 in trust from his uncle’s wife Mimina Ralli (née Scarmanga).

God-parentsJulia G. Scaramanga.

Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Coressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sechiari, Tamvaco 1, Vlasto, Vouro, Zygomala

FatherEmmanuel Antonios ‘Manoli' (Antonios) Mavrogordato (1830-1909)

MotherDespina (Eustratios) Ralli (1835-1885)

Marriage2 Jul 1902, London, England

SpouseElsie Josephine Russell (Charles) Napier-Bell

Birth27 May 1876, Glasgow, Scotland

MemoAnother source says 22 May 1876.

Death9 Mar 1958, London, England

MemoAnother source says Lothing Land District, Suffolk.

Note 1Artist and illustrator: see ‘The Mole and The Mouse’ by Frederick Warne (London 1950).

Note 2According to the Otago Witness and Wellington Evening Post in New Zealand (1896-98) she passed various art and musix exams.

Note 3In 1901 the same papers reported her as studying at Etaples (France), well known as an artists' colony and as having had a work accepted at the Paris Salon.

Note 4The Grey River Argus (New Zealand) carried a notice and short review in 1913 of ‘The Mole and the Mouse’ (reprinted by Warne in 1950).

FatherCharles Napier-Bell (1835-1906)

MotherLouise Mary Berry Fergus (?-?)

Children

1 FJulia Mary (Eustratius) Mavrogordato, 6C1R

Birth29 Mar 1903, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England

MemoArgenti says 28 Mar 1903.

DeathJun 1992, Waveney, Suffolk, England

SpousePatrick Herbert Lyon Playfair (1903-1986)

Marriage5 Feb 1935

Divorce?

ChildrenAnthony ‘Tad’ (Patrick) (1940-)