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Stavros Spyros Niarchos
Born 3 July 1909
Athens, Greece
Died 16 April 1996
Zürich, Switzerland[1]
Occupation Shipping magnate
Spouse 6 marriages to 5 women[1]
For the socialite, see Stavros Niarchos III. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the Stavros Niarchos III (born 17 April 1985) is a professional kiteboarder and an heir to a Greek shipping fortune

Stavros Spyros Niarchos (3 July 1909 – 16 April 1996) was a millionaire Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as "The Golden Greek. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία " In 1952, Stavros Niarchos built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil, and subsequently earned millions of dollars as global demand for his ships increased. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. History The technology of oil transportation has evolved alongside the oil industry An oil is a substance that is in a viscous Liquid state ( "oily") at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer and is

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Early life

He was born in Athens, son of Spyros Niarchos and his wife, the former Eugenia Coumandaros. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's His parents were naturalized Americans and had owned a department store in Buffalo, New York before returning to Greece, three months prior to his birth. Buffalo (ˈbʌfəloʊ is the second largest city in New York State. He studied law at the University of Athens, after which he went to work in the Coumandaros family's grain business. [1] During this period, he became involved in shipping by convincing his relatives that greater profits could be achieved if the firm owned the ships involved. [2]

Shipping successes

He was a naval officer in World War II, during which time part of the trade fleet he had built with his uncle was destroyed. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He used about two million dollars in insurance money to build a new fleet.

Stavros Niarchos founded Niarchos Ltd. , an international shipping company that at one time operated more than 80 tankers worldwide. In 1952, he built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. History The technology of oil transportation has evolved alongside the oil industry An oil is a substance that is in a viscous Liquid state ( "oily") at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer and is His naval rival, Aristotle Onassis, did the same in 1952. Aristotelis (also Ari or Aristo) Sokratis Onassis (Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης (January 15 1906 &ndash March 15 1975 was one Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1956 the Suez Canal Crisis considerably increased the demand for the type of large tonnage ships that Niarchos owned. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, (أزمة السويس - العدوان الثلاثي Crise du canal de Suez מבצע קדש Kadesh Business flourished and he became a billionaire. A billionaire is a person who has a Net worth of at least one billion units of currency such as United States dollars ( USD /US$ U

Marriages

Niarchos's five marriages produced two daughters: Maria and Elena and three sons: Philippos, known as Philippe (the father of Stavros Niarchos III), Spyros, and Konstantin. (born Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos in 1966 is the daughter of Charlotte Ford an Heiress to the Ford Motor Company fortune and Greek shipping tycoon Philippe Niarchos (or Philippos Niarchos is a Greek Shipping heir best known as a son and heir of the Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos and as an art collector Stavros Niarchos III (born 17 April 1985) is a professional kiteboarder and an heir to a Greek shipping fortune

From the late 1970s until his death, he was linked to Princess Firyal of Jordan. He was also said to be linked to Princess Maria Gabriella of Italy.

Children

(By third and fifth wife Eugenia Livanos, whom he never divorced under Greek law), he had issue one daughter and three sons:

  1. Maria Isabella Niarchos, a breeder of thoroughbreds. Married to Stephane Gouaze. Mother of two children: Athur Niarchos and Mia Niarchos
  2. Philippos, known as Philippe Niarchos, art collector. Philippe Niarchos (or Philippos Niarchos is a Greek Shipping heir best known as a son and heir of the Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos and as an art collector married in 1984 to today to Victoria Guinness Niarchos (b. 1960), younger daughter of Patrick Benjamin Guinness (himself son of Loel Guinness and Princess Joan Aly Khan, later Viscountess Camrose). Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness OBE ( 9 June 1906 &ndash 31 December 1988) a Member of Parliament They had four children together:[3]
    1. Stavros Niarchos (b. 1985),
    2. Eugenie Niarchos (b. 1986)
    3. Theodorakis Niarchos (b. 1991)[3]
    4. Electra Niarchos (b. 1995)[3]
  3. Spyros (b. 1955) married 1987 (divorced 1999) The Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness (b. The Hon Daphne Suzannah Diana Joan Guinness (born 1967 is a Socialite of Irish descent and an heiress of the Guinness family. 1967),[4] younger legitimate daughter of the 3rd Baron Moyne by his second wife Suzanne Lisney (d. Jonathan Bryan Guinness 3rd Baron Moyne (born March 16, 1930) succeeded as 3rd Baron Moyne in 1992 2005 of lung cancer)[5], and had issue three children, including two sons. Spyros is a good friend of Prince Ernest Augustus of Hannover and was his best man at his wedding to Princess Caroline of Monaco. Ernst August the Prince of Hanover ( German Ernst August Albert Paul Otto Rupprecht Oskar Berthold Friedrich-Ferdinand Christian-Ludwig Prinz von Hannover, in English also known Caroline Princess of Hanover Hereditary Princess of Monaco ( Caroline Louise Marguerite Prinzessin von Hannover Erbprinzessin von Monaco) formally styled Her At the wedding she was given some Arab horses which now are at the family residence in Frene, Normandy
    1. Nicolas Stavros Niarchos, or Nick Niarchos (b. 1989)[6]
    2. Alexis Spyros Niarchos (b. 1991)[7]
    3. Ines Niarchos (b. 1995). Most websites do not list her.
  4. Konstantin, or Constantin Niarchos (d. 1999, apparently of a cocain overdose); married 1stly 1987 (div) Donna Alessandra Borghese, no issue; married 2ndly the artist Silvia Martin, no issue. Borghese is the surname of a family of Italian noble and papal background originating in Siena as the Borghese or Borghesi where they came to prominence in the 13th century [3] At his death, The Independent (UK) reported he had left a billion dollars as his share of his late father's estate. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media.

(By fourth wife Charlotte Ford)

  1. Elena (b. (born Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos in 1966 is the daughter of Charlotte Ford an Heiress to the Ford Motor Company fortune and Greek shipping tycoon 1966) married 1stly 1991 (divorced) to Stanley Jozef Olender, married 2ndly 1996 Joseph Daniel Rippolone, with issue.

Later career

After the oil crisis of 1973, Stavros Niarchos sold off some of his companies and launched into finances and the diamond trade. The 1973 oil crisis began on October 17 1973 when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC consisting of the Arab members of In Mineralogy, diamond is the allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in In the 1980s, he came more and more often to Geneva, from where he managed his business around the globe. Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking The Golden Greek, as his fellow countrymen liked to call him, retired in the nineties to his main residence in Saint-Moritz, in the Swiss canton Graubünden, where he devoted a lot of time to his favorite sport, skiing. St Moritz ( German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is an exclusive resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland Graubünden or Grisons ( German:, gʁaʊˈbyndən Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun) is the largest and easternmost Snow skiing is a group of sports utilizing Skis as primary equipment

In 1956 Niarchos acquired the important art collection of actor Edward G. Robinson and over the years put together one of the world's most significant collections with more than one hundred Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. Edward Goldenberg Robinson Sr (born Emanuel Goldenberg; Yiddish: עמנואל גאלדנבערג December 12 1893 &ndash January Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and Art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. In 1989, he purchased Picasso's self-portrait "Yo Picasso" for $47,850,000, plus he acquired works by Van Gogh, Goya, El Greco, and Rubens. El Greco' ("The Greek " 1541 &ndash April 7 1614 was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance

Thoroughbred horse racing

Niarchos began investing thoroughbred horse racing in the early 1970s when he put together a highly successful stable of racehorses that competed in France and the United Kingdom. Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide Sport and Industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred Horses It is governed by different national This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He eventually acquired the Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard horse breeding farm in Neuvy-au-Houlme, France and Oak Tree Farm in Lexington, Kentucky where in 1984 his most successful horse Miesque was bred. Horse breeding refers to reproduction in Horses and particularly the human-directed process of Selective breeding of animals particularly Purebred Neuvy-Au-Houlme is a village in the Orne department of the Lower Normandy region of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 68th largest in the United States. Miesque (born March 14, 1984 in Lexington Kentucky, United States) is a champion Thoroughbred Filly Race horse

After his death in 1996, his daughter Maria Niarchos-Gouazé took charge of the racing operations. She continued to build on his success, and in 2004 her colt Bago won France's most important race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Bago (born February 3 2001 in France) was the European Three-Year-Old Champion Thoroughbred race horse in 2004 The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to Thoroughbreds which are three-years-old or above

Stavros Niarchos died in 1996, in Zurich. Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the He is buried in the family tomb in Lausanne. Lausanne ( pronounced, Losanna is a city in Romandy, the French -speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva

Notes

  1. ^ a b Time, 1996. Milestones.
  2. ^ a b Time, 1965. An International Marriage.
  3. ^ a b c d Niarchos-Guinness genealogy lists the following four children. Most other sites list only the two elder children. Victoria and Philip were together from at least 1981.
  4. ^ "Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness" in The Peerage database, entry last updated 17 August 2005
  5. ^ Heiress apparent, The Sunday Times, October 21, 2007. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. This article states that she had three children by her ex-husband whom she married in 1987 aged 19 and divorced in 1999.
  6. ^ "Nicolas Stavros Niarchos" in The Peerage database, entry last updated 17 August 2005
  7. ^ "Alexis Spyros Niarchos" in The Peerage database, entry last updated 17 August 2005

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