Ion Calvocoressi

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Ion Calvocoressi , actually Ion Melville Calvocoressi (born April 12, 1919 in Calcutta , † July 7, 2007 in England ) was a British officer and stockbroker of Greek descent.

Life

Calvocoressi was a son of Matthew John Calvocoressi and his wife Agnes Hermione Melville. On his father's side he was related to the Ralli family ( Ralli Brothers ). a. with Michael Linning Melville . The writer Peter Calvocoressi was his cousin.

He came to London with his parents in 1922 . He completed his schooling at Eton College and then studied Modern Languages at Magdalen College ( University of Oxford ). After the outbreak of World War II , Calvocoressi joined the British Army and joined the Scots Guards in 1940 . He fought u. a. in Libya and Egypt . As an advanced observer , he was wounded in July 1942 and, after his recovery, joined Lieutenant General Oliver Leese as an aide-de-camp (adjutant) .

After the war, Calvocoressi returned to his homeland and settled in Westerham ( Kent ). He lived there near Winston Churchill's Chartwell estate . He married Katherine Kennedy on April 29, 1947 and had four children with her: James (* 1948), Richard (* 1951), Andrew and Iona. Through his marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the playwright Royce Ryton and the journalist Ludovic Kennedy .

On Calvocoressi's initiative, a bust of Churchill was erected in West Ham in the Churchill War Rooms in 1965 ; it was created by the sculptor Oscar Nemon.

Politically interested and committed as he was, Calvocoressi held the office of High Sheriff of Kent between 1978 and 1979 .

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  1. ↑ copper bust. Illustration of the bust in Zs. "Zwischenwelt. Literature, Resistance, Exile." 34, 1-2, June 2017. Ed. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft ISSN  1606-4321 p. 25, in the essay by Sonja Frank: The sculptor Oscar Nemon. On the 111th birthday, pp. 24–27, with references and other sources
personal data
SURNAME Calvocoressi, Ion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calvocoressi, Ion Melville (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and stockbroker
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2007
Place of death England