D. M. Katinakis, Esq.
(1829-1891)
16 June 1861

Volume 4, page 89, sitting number 4426.

[Identified as ‘D. M. Katinaki, Esq.’ in the Silvy daybooks, this is the Greek banker Demetrius Michael Katinakis.]

Demetrius Michael Katinakis was born in Constantinople in or about 1829.

On 10 December 1864 at St Gabriel’s Church in Warwick Square ‘and afterwards according to the rites of the Greek Church’ Demetrius Michael Katinakis ‘of 51, Inverness-terrace, Hyde-park’ married ‘Harriet Fanny, youngest and only surviving daughter of Arthur Beresford Brooke, Esq., of Warwick-square, S.W.’ (Morning Post, 15 December 1864).

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at 22 Cleveland Gardens in Paddington with their three young children and five servants. Demetrius gave ‘Bill Broker’ as his profession. Four more children joined the family over the next few year; one child had already died in infancy.

On 1 March 1872 the Morning Post reported that ‘The Anglo-Foreign Banking Company will commence business at No 29, Lombard-street, on Monday next, March 4, under the direction of Mr D.M. Katinakis as managing director.’ According to a later advertisement ‘This bank issues drafts and letters of credit, and negotiates bills on the Continent, America, Turkey, and Egypt. Grants loans on negotiated securities, and discounts approved bills. Receives money at short notice or for fixed periods at rates to be agreed upon’ (London Evening Standard, 18 December 1875).

Harriet Katinakis died at 22 Cleveland Gardens on 30 November 1878, probably as the result of giving birth to her last child. She was 33 years old.

Demetrius Michael Katinakis died, aged 64, on 1 July 1891 at 92 Lancaster Gate in Paddington, leaving an estate valued at £120,209. He was buried in Norwood Cemetery on 4 July 1891.