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Constantine Photiadès (1882/1883-1949), son of Stefanos, was a scholar, an historian and an art critic. He was educated in France and studied Classics in Paris. He collaborated, as a critic, with the journals Revue de Paris, Revue hebdomadaire, Revue de deux mondes etc. He authored historical studies, biographies of historical figures etc. and was decorated by the Académie Française (1911, 1924, 1933). He was married to Irene von Strautz.

Photographic studio in Cairo (Egypt).

Theodosios Pieridis (1908-1968), son of Filippos, spent his childhood in Cyprus and Cairo (Egypt). He graduated from the commercial department of the Ambeteios School of Cairo and from the French Lyceum of that city. He studied in Paris (1949-1952) before returning to Egypt to work as a public servant and a journalist. He later lived in various Eastern European countries, but mainly in Romania (1952-1962), before finally settling in Cyprus (1962). His literary work includes nineteen poem collections as well as translations.

William Plomer (1903-1973) was a South African and British author. He was educated in the United Kingdom. He wrote poems, short stories, novels, biographies and librettos. He was a friend of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster.

The Athenian newspaper Politeia was first published in 1917 by Theologos Nikoloudis and Spyridon Alibertis. It was distributed until 1933.

Athanasios G. Politis (1893-1967) was a diplomat. He served at the Greek Consulate General in Alexandria (as of 1923) as well as in Cairo. He wrote the two-volume historical study entitled *O Ellinismos kai I neotera Egyptos”, which was published by the Grammata publishing house (1928, 1930).

Céleste Polychroniadou-Karavia (1904-1985) was born in Athens (Greece). She studied music at the Athens Conservatory and in 1930 she went to Paris (France), at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where she studied, inter alia, painting and sketching. She was a member of the “Art” group and organised many personal exhibitions in Greece and abroad, participating also in many group exhibitions. She was the wife of the author Panos Karavias.

Georges Poniridy (1887?-1982) was born in Chalcedon (Kadıköy), Istanbul (Turkey). He studied music in Europe, where he was also professionally active for many years. He had been influenced by Byzantine music and Greece’s folklore tradition. He composed pieces for piano, songs and symphonic pieces. He died in Athens (Greece).

Charles H. C. Prentice was one of the three partners and co-managers of the Chatto & Windus publishing house (the other two were Harold Raymond and Ian Parsons) during the 1920s and 1930s.