Rev’d George Ambrose (Ambrose) Scaramanga MC & Evelyn Mary ‘Lyn’ Bowman

Family Group Sheet

NameRev’d George Ambrose (Ambrose) Scaramanga MC, 9G Grandson

Birth24 Apr 1911, London, England

Death13 Jul 1988, Wiltshire, England

MemoAt home.

Burial1988

MemoThanksgiving service 05-08-1988 at St Michael’s Church, Bath.

Baptism27 May 1911, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

ResidenceLower Colham Hill House, Castle Combe, Chippenham, Wilts, England

ResidenceAbbots Ann, Hants, England

MemoVicar of Abbots Ann and Monxton, Hants, England.

ResidenceCherry Tree House, Westfield, Medmenham, Marlow, Bucks, England

ResidenceTiltwood, Crawley Down, Sussex, England

OccupationFarmer. Clergyman.

EducationEton.

Note 1Ian Fleming, with whom he was at school at Eton, took Scaramanga’s name for an evil character in the ‘James Bond’ novel ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’. Took Holy Orders when in his fifties and became Rector of Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, England.

Note 2Although his citation for his Military Cross in World War ll exists, a cousin recounts a family legend saying George had it for ‘strangling Germans with piano wire’!

Note 3In fact he served in a commando unit in WWll operating, for example, in St Vaast Bay in Sep 1941 leading 1 Section of 5 Troop in Operation Deepcut. He was the subject of a portrait by V. Vicherkassoff.

God-parentsFanny Zicaliotti.

Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Franghiadi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Ig, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Rodocanachi, Salvago, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sechiari, Sevastopoulos, Zygomala

FatherAmbrose George (George) Scaramanga (1869-1946)

MotherNina (Theodore) Schilizzi (1879-1951)

Marriage18 May 1946, Worthing, Sussex, England

SpouseEvelyn Mary ‘Lyn’ Bowman

Birth6 Oct 1922, England

MemoSee UK BMD.

Death22 May 2004

Children

1 MDavid George Ambrose (George) Scaramanga, 10G Grandson

Birth20 Mar 1948, Crawley Down, Sussex, England

Death26 Feb 1973, Zambia

2 MJulian Theodore (George) Scaramanga, 10G Grandson