Dikran Tahta was a descendant of an Armenian family of cotton merchants based in Istanbul . His father Kevork Tahtabrounian settled in Manchester with his wife in 1927 , after the First World War and the Armenian Genocide , to run a branch of the business which took the name Manchester Textile Exporters . His father also shortened his surname to Tahta
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Dikran Tahta