[5] The Schilizzi family was one of the trading dynasties that arose after the 1822 Chios massacre of the Greek War of Independence.

[6] Demetrius' uncle J. S. Schilizzi (1805–1892) was in the Black Sea grain trade at Livorno, and founded a London branch in 1837.

The Greek Orthodox cathedral of St. Stephen in Rue Georges Bizet, Paris, designed by Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer and decorated by Charles Lameire and Ludwig Thiersch (iconostasis), and a home for the aged (present-day Foyer Jean Bosco) by the same architect in the Rue de Varize, were commissioned by Schlizzi, who did not live to see them completed.

[17] Demetrius Schilizzi had earlier been on the Building Committee of St Sophia's Cathedral, London.

[19][b] The fifth fantasy in Jean Rémusat's Le Flûtiste romancier, published 1959, and the second number in Jules Demersseman's Six petites fantaisies faciles pour deux flûtes, Op.