Hugo Meynell Cyril Ionides was the son of Cyril Constantine Luke Alexander Ionides (1873-1924) and Mary Isabel (Frederick) Pigou (1867-1948). He was the oldest child. In 1924 he married Mary Rosalind ‘Linda’ Rankin.
A descendant of the Ionides family, major patrons of Whistler, he inherited Portrait of Luke A. Ionides y032.
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