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Peter Calvocoressi
British lawyer, Liberal politician, historian and publisher
Peter John Ambrose Calvocoressi (17 November 5 February ) was a British lawyer, Liberal politician, historian, and publisher.
He served as an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Early years
Calvocoressi was born in Karachi, British India (now in Pakistan), to a family of Greek origins from the island of Chios.
Peter Calvocoressi, who has died aged 97, was best known as an Ultra intelligence analyst at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre in Buckinghamshire during.
His mother, Irene (née Ralli), was descended from one of the founders of Ralli Brothers, who were prominent Greek families of Chios who came to London at the time of the Greek Diaspora. When he was three months old, the family moved to Liverpool, England.
Calvocoressi's father Pandia had spent the first seven years of his life in Manchester and the next ten at San Stefano (now Yeşilköy, then in the outskirts of Istanbul).
He attended the Sorbonne from the age of 17 for three years and then joined the family firm in New York.[citation needed] Pand