Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Claude E. Loombe attended the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1-22 Jul 1944, as a member of the Iraq delegation. Described as: Comptroller of Exchange and Currency Officer; British subject; previously banker with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (1930s); exchange control officer, Reserve Bank of India (1942?). (Kurt Schuler and Mark Bernkopf, "Who Was at Bretton Woods," Center for Financial Stability, 1 Jul 2014).

Claude Evan Loombe, Esq., adviser to the Bank of England, awarded Companion, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, London Gazette, 10 Jun 1961, p. 4146.

Residence: at DOD, 64 Shepherds Way, Liphook, Hampshire, England UK

Deirdre C. E Loombe, Zoe I Loombe and Claude E. Loombe, 10 Maori Road, Guildford, Surrey are on the 1961, 1962 England electoral register.

1911 England Census for the household at 11 Trix Road, Norwich, headed by Catherine Jane Loombe, 43, widowed, private means; son Cecil Arthur Loombe, 17, commercial clerk; daughter Olive Teresa Loombe, 12, pupil; son Claude Evan Loombe, 5, all single; step-mother Sarah Jermy, 81, all b. Norwich.

1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Claude Evan Loombe, b. 1905, Norwich, Norfolk; Catherine Jane Loombe, b. 1867, Norwich; Cecil Arthur Loombe, b. 1893, Norwich; in a household in Norwich, Norfolk.

Birth:
The birth of Claude Evan Loombe was registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1905, Norwich, Norfolk, England, v. 4b, p. 181.

Died:
Tribute in The Times [London], 4 Mar 1978, p. 16.

Claude married Zoë Isabella (Robert) Hotchkis on 08 Feb 1936 in St. Andrews Scots Kirk, Colombo, 73 Galle Rd, Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Zoë (daughter of Dr. Robert Dunmore (Richard) Hotchkis and Penelope (Alexander) Ionides) was born on 06 Jun 1913 in Mid-Dyke-Bar, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland UK; died in Nov 2003 in Sussex, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Deirdre C. E Loombe, Zoe I Loombe and Claude E. Loombe, 10 Maori Road, Guildford, Surrey are on the 1961, 1962 England electoral register.

Died:
"Zoe Isabella Loombe, of Liphook, Hampshire, left estate valued at Pounds 1,723,535 net. She left her estate mostly to relatives; she also left Pounds 5,000 to Macmillan Unit, King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, West Sussex" (The Times [London], 31 Aug 2004, p. 27).

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Married:
Marriage notice in The Times [London], 12 Feb 1936, p. 1.

Arthur married Catherine Jane Jermy in Jul 1890 in Norwich, Norfolk, England UK. Catherine was born about 1868 in Norwich, Norfolk, England UK; died on 28 Aug 1925 in Croydon, Surrey, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Claude Evan Loombe, b. 1905, Norwich, Norfolk; Catherine Jane Loombe, b. 1867, Norwich; Cecil Arthur Loombe, b. 1893, Norwich; in a household in Norwich, Norfolk.

1911 England Census for the household at 11 Trix Road, Norwich, headed by Catherine Jane Loombe, 43, widowed, private means; son Cecil Arthur Loombe, 17, commercial clerk; daughter Olive Teresa Loombe, 12, pupil; son Claude Evan Loombe, 5, all single; step-mother Sarah Jermy, 81, all b. Norwich.

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The major source for information on this line is the website Hotchkiss Family Genealogy - The Scottish Lines

WW I service: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Dunmore Hotchkis, British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps.

According to the 1881 Census he was a scholar at St. Cuthberts, age 13, residing at 2 Bruntsfield Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland, with his widowed aunt, Margaret Hart Jameson.

Residence: at DOD, Rathmore Kennedy Gardens, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland UK.

Robert D. Hotchkis, St. Bartholomew's Hospital was conferred a degree of bachelor of medicine, at the Castle Hall, Durham, England, The Times [London], 30 Apr 1891, p. 8.

A possible grandson: James Dunmore Hotchkiss (499539) Infantry, Scottish Division, Regular Army, Short Serv. Limited Commn. A. & S.H. to be 2nd Lt. (on probation), 22 Feb 1975 (London Gazette 24 Mar 1975).

Robert married Penelope (Alexander) Ionides on 21 Oct 1908 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Penelope (daughter of Alexander (Alexander) Ionides and Zambelou (Ambrose) Sechiari) was born on 11 Jan 1882 in London, England UK; was christened on 05 Mar 1882 in St. Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK; died on 19 Feb 1974 in Rathmore, Fife, Scotland UK; was cremated on 23 Feb 1974 in Saint Andrews Eastern Cemetery, The Pends, Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1891 England census: 1 Holland Park, Kensington, London, household headed by Alexander A. Ionides, 51, cousul general of Greece, b. Tulse Hill, Surrey; wife Isabel, 37, b. Marseille; Andre A., 14; George A. 12; daughter Aglaia, 10; Penelope, 9, all b. London Kensington; & 7 servants; and adjacent at 1a Holland Park, household headed by Theodore John Coronios, 66, b. Greece; wife [Aglaia daughter of Alexander and Euterpe Ionides], 50, b. London; daughter Calliope, 33; son John, 23, b. Tulse Hill, Surrey; son-in-law Paraskeva Sechiari, 38, stock broker - agent, b. Marseille; & 3 servants.

Christened:
Apparently the first to be baptised at St Sophia church, London. Appears in photograph with her sister Aglaia, seated with an open book.

God-parent: Euterpe A. Ionides.

Buried:
Funeral announcement in The Times, 21 Feb 1974.

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Married:
And at Esher, Surrey on the same day.

Marriage Witnesses: Luke A. Ionides and C. Ionides; Agathangelos Moschovakis presiding; entry 273.