Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameDr Michel Ernest Theodore Dimitri (Ernest) Vlasto °, GG Grandson
Birth12 Feb 1888, 69 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8e, France
Death29 May 1979, Gresham Lodge, Limpsfield, Surrey, England
MemoNatural
BurialJun 1979, Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England
Residencebef 1900, 7 Rue Lamennais, Paris, France
Residence1911, 29 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
Residence1920s-1930s, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
Residence1920s-1940s, Consulting Room, 26 Wimpole Street, Westminster, London, England
MemoConsulting Rooms
Residence1950s, Betsoms, Westerham, Kent, England
Residence1960s-1970s, Gresham Lodge, Limpsfield, Surrey, England
OccupationM.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. Ear, Nose & Throat Surgeon, London.
EducationLycée Carnot, Paris. Winchester College, England (A. K. Cook’s House 1901-04). University College Hospital, London (1905-10).
OriginFrance. Took British nationality 10 Apr 1911.
Note 1Légion d’Honneur (May 1919). Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Navy 1914-18. Ear, Nose & Throat Surgeon. Author of ‘The Nose, Ear and Throat for Nurses and Dressers’. A plaintiff in the 1921 Kessisoglu libel trial.
Note 2Following the death of his father in 1900, he came under the bullying influence of a guardian, his uncle Alec Ionides, who he came to loathe.
Note 3Surgeon at Queen’s Hospital for Children; St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy; Aural surgeon at West Herts Hospital, etc. Surgeon-Lieutenant, R.N., 1914-19 seeing service in HMS Canopus, HMS London. etc., and Royal Navy Hospitals Malta and Portsmouth.
Note 4Played football for the United Hospitals Association 1908-10, member of the British Skiing Association, golf. Clubs: the RAC and the Anglo-Hellenic.
Note 5One of the first investors in Rowley Atterbury’s Westerham Press in the 1950s.
Marr. WitnessSt Sophia 19-06-1919: Alexander C. Ionides and Dr Constantine Leonidas Lambrinudi. Lambrinudi was Michel’s great friend, colleague and cousin. He detested ‘Uncle Alec’, his guardian, who must have been imposed on him as a witness.
Flags***, Argenti, Boscovic, Cantacuzene, Caralli, Coressi, Dwerniki, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Kaplanoglou, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Vlasto, Zarifi
MotherHelen (Michael) Zarifi (1860-1946)
Marriage18 Jun 1919, Aberdeen & London, Scotland & England
Married MemoMarried 18-06-1919 at St James’s Episcopal Church, Aberdeen; solemnised 19-06-1919 at St Sophia, London.
SpouseChristian Mitchell (Thomas) Croil °
Birth28 Nov 1894, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Death27 Mar 1983, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England
MemoOld age. Died at the Home of Compassion, 58 High Street, Thames Ditton.
Residence1919, 3 Carden Terrace, Aberdeen, Scotland
Residence1920s-1930s, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
Residence1950s, Betsoms, Westerham, Kent, England
Residence1960s-1970s, Gresham Lodge, Limpsfield, Surrey, England
EducationConvent in Milwaukee and in Aberdeen.
OriginScotland, Canada & USA
Note 1V.A.D. Royal Navy 1914-18. She met Michel Vlasto when they were both serving in the RNVR at the Royal Navy Hospital Bighi, Valetta, Malta.
Note 2In the 1939 Census she and her husband were living at 16 Porchester Terrace with two couples of live-in servants (John Henry, carpenter & Jennie Henry, servant; William Morgan & Gertrude Morgan, servant)...
Note 3... not listed in the Census were their chauffeur Voules and his wife who lived in the Vlasto’s Fulton Mews house nearby and at least three other servants who lived out (including Ella).
Note 4At some point during WWl her path crossed that of Vera Brittain (both VAD nurses) but she notably had nothing positive or negative to say about her or her book of shared experience, ‘Testament of Youth’....
Note 5... though it seemed possible in the 1970s that she disapproved of one person (among the thousands of VADs) seeking public sympathy and acclaim for widely shared grief.
Marr. WitnessAberdeen 18-06-1919: George Bartlett (rector), John Glen Wardrop and Gladys Mitchell Croil.
Flags***, Croil, Dickson, Mitchell, Shives/Chivas
FatherThomas (Thomas) Croil (1865-1942)
MotherChristian Chivas (George) Mitchell (1866-1951)
Children
1 FHelen Croil (Michel) Vlasto °, GGG Granddaughter
Birth15 Apr 1920, 29 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
MemoHer grandmother’s home.
Death5 Jul 2001
MemoHeart failure.
Burial11 Jul 2001, Brasted, Kent, England
Marriage28 Nov 1946, St Mark’s Church, North Audley Street, Mayfair, London, England
Married MemoPriest: The Rev'd Guy Stephenson Long
ChildrenAngela (Aidan) (Died as Infant) (1947-1947)
 (Female) (1950-)
 (Male) (1952-)
 (Male) (1957-)
Birth4 Apr 1921, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
Death19 Feb 2009, Karachi, Pakistan
SpouseGhulam Abbas ° (1907-1982)
Marriage2 Nov 1952, Karachi, Pakistan
ChildrenMariam (Ghulam) (1953-)
 Neelofar (Ghulam) (1957-1991)
 Kauser (Ghulam) (1959-1965)
Birth3 Apr 1923, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
Death2 Mar 1971, Oakford, Devon, England
MemoCancer of the lung
Marriage11 Jun 1949, Westerham, Kent, England
ChildrenPeter (Michael) (1950-)
Birth1 Feb 1926, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England
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