Andrew Stevens’ father, Edward, was born in Patras before the outbreak of the Balkan wars. He was a naval officer in World War I and, as director of a Greek shipping company, aided the allies before escaping to South Africa with his family in World War II.
Edward’s great grandfather, George Stevens, was brought to the Ionian islands (responsible for supplies, taxes and port requirements) with the then British rulers.
Edward, .... joins his father, Alfred in his shipping business, Crowe & Stevens with offices in Pireaus, Patras, Cephalonia, Zakynthos, Calamata and Catacolo. They have well-known shipping companies such as Ellerman and Bucknall on daily call as well as many lesser known companies. The company is known later, as
Morphy,
Crowe and
Stevens and after the war, as Gellatly Morphy Shipping, and by the late 1980s, as Inchcape Shipping.
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