Career
Rodocanachi"s parents were wealthy merchants in their home at Chios, related to the influential Vlasto and Mavrogordato families. In 1853 he returned to Marseilles to marry Ariadne Michael Petrocochino. This financial foundation enabled him to participate in the founding of the Imperial Bank with fellow Anglo-Greeks Petrocochino and Schilizzi.
He moved to Worthing in his later years as his health failed, calling his house Chios.
Rodocanachi Sons & Company did not survive long after Emmanuel"s retirement in 1925. lieutenant collapsed in the Great Depression as a result of bad debts due from failed German and Italian trading partners.
