W/Cmdr Peter John Ambrose (Pantias) Calvocoressi ° & The Hon. Barbara Dorothy (Francis) Henley Eden

Family Group Sheet

NameW/Cmdr Peter John Ambrose (Pantias) Calvocoressi °, 4C2R

Birth17 Nov 1912, Karachi, India

Death5 Feb 2010

Baptism19 Mar 1913, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

Residence1985, 1 Queen’s Parade, Bath, Avon, England

ResidenceGuise House, Apsley Guise, Bletchley, Bucks, England

OccupationHistorian.

EducationEton College (King’s Scholar). Balliol, Oxford. Called to the Bar 1935.

Note 1RAFVR. On the staff and then council member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs 1949-70. Reader in intenrnational relations at Sussex University 1965-71. Director of Chatto & Windus and Hogarth Press 1954-65. Penguin Books 1972-76.

Note 2During WWll he became head of 3A in Hut 3 at Bletchley Park which evaluated army/air force Enigma decrypts issuing from Hut 6. Wing Commander at the trial of major war criminals at Nuremberg 1945-46.

Note 3Lectured and broadcast items on the history of Chios and its diaspora families - see ‘Byzantium to Eton’ (King’s College and BBC Radio 4’s ‘Migrations’). Sec. Gen. Liberal Interat 1947. Chatham House Annual Survey 1949.

Note 4Portrait painted by de Laszlo (Courtauld Institute).

Note 5He appears in a group photograph with his great-grandmother Marietta, his grandmother Marietta and his mother Irene, dated 13 March 1913.

God-parentsHelen Ambrosios Ralli (his aunt).

Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Coressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sechiari, Sevastopoulos, Vlasto, Vouro

FatherPantias John (John) Calvocoressi (1874-1965)

MotherIrene (Ambrose) Ralli (1882-1937)

Other spousesRachel (Ernest) Scott

Marriage10 Sep 1938, Rugby, Warks, England