Ziadie family

The Ziadie family is a family resident in Jamaica, where they were prominent merchants. A branch of the family now resident in the United States has become successful horse trainers.[1][2] They are the descendants of half a dozen Greek Orthodox brothers who emigrated from Lebanon.[3]

Lady Colin Campbell, previously Georgia Ziadie,[4] is descended from this family through her father, department store owner[5] Michael George Ziadie.[6][7] She claims that the Ziadies went from being "revered to reviled to now treasured as exotic national fruit" and are a wealthy family in Jamaica.[8] The opera director Sir Peter Jonas was her cousin.[9]

The family's pre-eminent social position as claimed by Lady Colin Campbell is not borne out by reference works; certainly this notional status had waned by 1969, with only one member, Edward George Ziadie, a dry goods merchant, appearing in that year's Who's Who in Jamaica, detailing the "Careers of Principal Public Men and Women of Jamaica", alongside an advertisement for a real estate company, "Victor Ziadie Realty".[10]

References
  1. "They said she was a boy". August 1, 1997 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  2. "Family feud - Ziadie father and son win with horses, but lose family bond". Jamaica Gleaner. 26 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012.
  3. "Inside Stories". The Independent. 28 June 1997. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  4. "Meet Lady Colin Campbell's secret 'husband'". The Daily Telegraph. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  5. "Is Nothing Sacred?". PEOPLE.com.
  6. Contemporary Authors, 1993, Donna Olendorf, p. 67
  7. "Interview: Lady Colin Campbell – All about my mother". The Scotsman. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  8. "Lady Colin Campbell: 'My father said I should take rat poison'". The Daily Telegraph. 2 November 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  9. Lady Colin Campbell (2015). A Life Worth Living. Arcadia Books Limited. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-1-910-05086-6.
  10. Who's Who in Jamaica: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Outstanding People in Jamaica, ed. Stephen A. Hill, 1969, pp. 216, 419
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