Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameWalter Basil (Basil) Graham-Montgomery OBE
Birth3 Aug 1881
Death23 Mar 1928, Kinross House, Kinross, Scotland
EducationEton. Trinity Hall Cambridge.
Note 1Only son. In 1905 he was Honorary Attaché at the British Legation in Brussels. Attaché in the Diplomatic Service. Deputy Lieutenant of Kinross-shire. OBE (1920).
Note 2He was a nephew of Sir Robert Drummond Moncreiffe of that Ilk (7th Bt) whose family were close friends of (and inter-married with) the Balli/Kessisoglu family of Fanny Zarifi’s aunt, Helen Vlasto (née Zarifi).
FatherSir Basil Templer (Graham) Graham-Montgomery 5th Bt. (1852-1928)
MotherMary Katherine (Thomas) Moncreiffe (1859-1910)
Marriage2 Nov 1912, St George’s Church, Hanover Square, Westminster, London, England
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
MotherAlexandra (Peter) Ralli (1866-1932)
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