Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameEverard John Boothby (John) How
Birth9 Oct 1890, Newent, Gloucestershire, England
Death13 Feb 1954, Toronto, Canada
Burial1954, St Giles Church, Ashstead, Surrey, England
Residence1921, 22 Kensington Palace Gardens, Kensington, London, England
Residenceaft 1921, 40 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, England
MemoWith Fanny Zarifi.
Residenceaft 1921, 20 Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, England
MemoWith Fanny Zarifi.
Residenceaft 1921, 45 Thurloe Square, South Kensington, London, England
ResidenceJul 1931, 15 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London, England
MemoAt the time of his divorce from Fanny Zarifi.
OccupationCompany director and ‘of independent means’.
OriginLondon.
Note 1Presumably he was the second husband of Fanny Zarifi. Their marriage appears to have lasted until at least 1928 when they attended her cousin Lady Yorke’s funeral together.
Note 2Served in the Royal Navy in WWl as an airman Flight Sub-Lieutenant. Elected a member of the Royal Aero Club in 1922.
Note 3Appears to have been gazetted 26 Nov 1914 (see London Gazette 1 Dec 1914). Qualified as a flyer on a Grahame-White biplane, perhaps on 17 Mar 1916 when he appears to have been at Wexham Springs, Stoke Poges, England.
Note 4His divorce from Fanny is said to have been acrimonious and seems to have involved him having to do the ‘honourable thing’ - being ‘discovered’ adulterously with a Mrs M. Nicol at the Hotel Belgravia, Grosvenor Gardens, London, on 15-16th July 1931.
Note 5A photograph of crew and plane of the Royal Navy Flying Service includes Anthony Jacques Mantle, a co-officer with E.J.B. How who may or not figure in the picture as well.
FatherMajor John Herbert How (1853-1930)
MotherMadeline Ellen Boothby (-1936)
Other spousesMary Lawrence Post Viscountess Lymington
Marriage16 Nov 1921, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England
Married MemoMarriage Certificate issued at Kensington District Register Office 16 Nov 1921.
Divorce1931, London, England
Divorced MemoDivorce Court File: 435. Appellant: Fanny Montgomery How. Respondent: Everard John Boothby How. Type: Wife's petition for divorce [WD].
SpouseFanny (Theodore) Zarifi, GG Granddaughter
Birth2 Jun 1891
Death?
MemoProbably in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Baptism11 Jul 1891, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England
Residencebef 1921, 37 Great Cumberland Place, Westminster, London, England
Residence1922, 40 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, England
Residencebef 1931, 45 Thurloe Square, South Kensington, London, England
Residencebef 1931, 20 Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, England
Residence1930, c/o Barclay’s Bank, Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, England
MemoAddress for Fanny and her son Colin given on passenger manifest of ‘Arundel Castle’ sailing from South Africa and Madeira arriving Southampton 29 Dec 1930.
Residence1931, 33 St James’s Court, St James’s, Westminster, England
MemoAt the time of her divorce from E.J.B. How.
Residence1934, Queen Anne’s Mansions, London, England
MemoLondon SW1 or SW7? See passenger manifest for ‘Arandora Star’ sailing Honolulu and West Indies cruise arriving Southampton 09-04-1934
Residenceabt 1934-1938, Colesdane, Harrietsham, Kent, England
MemoPresumably she bought this huge mansion after the death of her mother and it appears she shared it with her son Colin and his nanny, Jenny Burrell.
Note 1She had an illegitimate son Colin Richard Theodore (perhaps while her first husband Walter Montgomery was away at war). Alexandra, her mother, may have paid off the husband to avoid a scandal. She adopted the child herself pro tem.
Note 2Colin may have been adopted in order to allow Trust inheritance from the Ralli and Zarifi families. George ‘Boysie’ Zarifi noted (perhaps incorrectly) that she had four husbands and one illegitimate child.
Note 3A letter on 28 Oct 1916 from Alexandra Zarifi to her daughter Fanny’s nurse, Miss Jenny Burrell, at Glenstrae, Hills Road, St Martin’s, Christchurch, New Zealand, suggests that Fanny was sent far away during her illegimate pregnancy.
Note 4A libellous allegation made during the 1922 Kessisoglou libel trial suggests that Fanny’s mother might have paid £100,000 to Fanny’s first husband to settle the inevitable divorce.
Note 5She may have used the name Montgomery-Zarifi for a while after her first divorce. She returned, with her baby son Colin, to Plymouth from New Zealand (via India and Suez) as F. Zarifi on the SS Ruahine arriving 23 April 1919.
Note 5According to E. Sutherland-Loveday, the father of her illegitimate son Colin Zarifi was Basil Zaharoff.
God-parentsFanny Zarifi.
Marr. WitnessAlexandra Zarifi and Pandias Ralli.
Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Boscovic, Calvocoressi, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Kaplanoglou, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Rodocanachi, Scaramanga, Sechiari, Sevastopoulos, Vlasto, Vouro, Zarifi
FatherTheodore Michael (Michael) Zarifi (1858-1910)
MotherAlexandra (Peter) Ralli (1866-1932)
Other spousesWalter Basil (Basil) Graham-Montgomery OBE