Miltiades (Menalaus) Negroponte

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Dr. of Law, Leipzig; prefet de Cephalonie 1904, depute de l'Attique 1910-1920, ministre des Finances 1916-1917, 1917-1920; president du comite d'assistance des refugies a Salonique, conseiller de la Banque de Grece (Sturza).

Occupation: politician and lawyer.

Grand Officer of the Order of The Saviour.

Helen (who in 1915 is already listed as widow) lived after her husband's death with her father at 12 Othonos St. Some time later they both seem to have moved to 4 Amalias St, St. Negroponte's domicile, which means that St. must have been a very close relative to theirs -- George Agelastos

Cycling, 1898: président, Véloce-Club Athénien, 6, rue Auchesne; Délégués à l'étranger: Athènes (Grèce), M. Negroponti, Miltiade, I, Licabete, Revue mensuelle, Touring-club de France, 15 Jan 1898, p. 35.

He was a witness at the Athens marriage of Lt. Lelay and Suzanne (Jacques) Bonnier, Le Gaulois, 10 Jun 1920, p. 2.

According to Nikos Karabelas in 2014, he appears in two photographs taken during the 1912/13 Balkan wars, inscribed in an album by Prince Nicholas; ?We have photos of a Mr. M. Negroponte, a rather late mid-ager, who is a sergeant volunteer automobile driver in Epirus.? (Christopher Long)

Name:
Miltiade Negropontes on the birth certificate.

Birth:
DOB from certificate. Sturza says 3 Apr 1873.

Miltiades married Maria (Otto) Lüders on 17 Apr 1895 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Maria (daughter of Otto Lüders and Catherine (Constantine) Dossios) was born on 16 Apr 1877 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Helene (Miltiades) Negroponte was born in 1898 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died on 08 Dec 1971 in Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery, Athens, Greece.

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Menelaus Negroponte was the Constantinople merchant who created an eponymous scandal in Britain. M.J. Negroponte had corresponded with William Ewert Gladstone in 1877, when the latter was in opposition, in between stints as four-time prime minister. During what became known as "The Negroponte Affair" Gladstone was accused of fomenting Greeks living under Ottoman rule into sedition and the affair dragged on into a libel case against the press in which Gladstone testified. Except for his writing letters to Gladstone and to The Times of London (to explain, in fact to further complicate), Negroponte was not otherwise involved; but he had effectively created a political hellstorm, consciously or not. He, like Gladstone, was misrepresented and demonized in the press. Briefly covered in the French press: Le XIXe siècle (Paris), 2 Feb 1878, p. 1; Le Temps [Paris], 28 Aug 1877, p. 3; 26 Sep 1877; 29 Mar 1881, p. 3; Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 26 Sep 1877;


Supporting Gladstone and treating Negroponte as an unfortunate victim, one newspaper opined: "As for M. Menelaus Negroponte, who has been rendered very miserable by the fuss which has been made about the letter, all who know him are amazed and amused that he should for the moment be regarded as a conspirator. He is a comfortable and rather 'crummy' corn merchant, of conservative tendencies, and with a correct taste in cereals." (Liverpool Mercury 6 Jun 1879).

Mr. Negroponte, a Constantinople merchant, was aboard the Rethymo when it sank on the Bosphorus (The Times [London], 31 Dec 1874). He was rescued and his £T 4,200 was retrieved.

30 Aug 1878: Menelaos I. Negroponte, 40, born Chios, married, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the town hall, Ermoupolis.

Likely appears in the Boudouris Family Archive: Merchantile Correspondence (1879-1882); F. 25.4 (1882); Letters [between Boudouris and] A.E.Mavrogordatos, D.Ch. Pestemalzoglu (Trieste), N.V.Kavour (Syros), M. Negrepontis, S. Evripides, D. and M. Lenos (Constantinople), Van der Zee (Smyrna) and others; Merchantile Correspondence (1883-1886); F. 26.1 (1883); Letters [between Boudouris and] D.Ch. Pestemalozoglu (Smyrna), A.E. Mavrogordatos, Men. Negrepontis, G. Flokos (Limni), N.V. Kavour, W.Sastour, I. Marikopoulos and others.

Name:
On the birth certificate of his son, his name appears as Mihelas Negropontes.

Menelaus married Eleni (Andreas) Vagliano on 16 Jan 1872 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Eleni (daughter of Andreas (Athanasios) Vagliano and Euphrosyne (Iorgo) Melas) was born on 17 Apr 1854 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; died on 16 Mar 1927 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
This marriage is not indexed in the Marseille register.

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Sturdza claims (surely wrongly) that he is the brother of Theodore (Ambrosios) rather than his son. (Christopher Long)

Occupation: merchant

Zannis married Catherine (Ulysses) Meimarides about 1897 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Catherine (daughter of Ulysses Meimarides) was born in Tatavla, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died in 1891 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence: 1868, Galata, Constantinople [son's marriage certificate says Galatz, Turkey].

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Name is given as Catherine Meimaridi on her son's death certificate.

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Andrea A. Vagliano contributed 100 francs to a group of hospitals in Marseille, (J. Gazan, Rapport au Préfet et Compte-rendu administratif de l'hopital Saint-Louis et des autres établissements hospitaliers créés par la Commission nationale des secours aux blessés à Marseille, 1872).

Died:
Estate valued at £470,700 4s. 2d. handled by his son Marino.

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1815 Vienna city directory lists Theodor Negroponte under Negroponte und Georguffopulo.

Died:
Sturdza says 6 May 1822 during the massacre.

Theodore married Zambelou (Zannis) Scanavi. Zambelou (daughter of Zannis (Constantine) Scanavi and Arghyro [Scanavi]) was born in 1764 in Chios, Greece; died on 03 Sep 1847 in Chios, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her brother Constantine is on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.