Manoly Lascaris

Emmanuel George "Manoly" Lascaris (Greek: Μανόλης Λάσκαρης; 5 August 1912 – 13 November 2003) was the life partner of the Australian novelist and dramatist Patrick White.

Lascaris was born in Cairo, the son of a wealthy Greco-Egyptian father from Smyrna in Asia Minor and an American mother.

[1] In 1941 he joined the Greek Army in exile in Egypt and soon after, in Alexandria, met White who was then serving with the Royal Air Force.

When they were published, he was not given prior warning that White had openly discussed their relationship and made a variety of comments on Lascaris' family.

White referred to Lascaris as "the small Greek of immense moral strength who became the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design".

He protected people from White's outbursts of fury while remaining, at heart, absolutely loyal to his lover.

Highbury , the house Lascaris shared with Patrick White