

Shortly afterwards Pandia was posted to India where Calvocoressi was born.

Pandia Calvocoressi and Irene Ralli married in London in 1910. He attended the Sorbonne from the age of 17 for three years and then joined the family firm in New York.

When he was three months old, the family moved to Liverpool, England.Ĭalvocoressi's father Pandia had spent the first seven years of his life in Manchester and the next ten at San Stefano (on the outskirts of Istanbul). His mother, Irene (née Ralli), was descended from one of the founders of Ralli Brothers, who were prominent Greek families of Chios who came to London at the time of the Greek Diaspora. Calvocoressi was born in Karachi, now in Pakistan, to a family of Greek origins from the island of Chios.
