Darzi was born in Baghdad , Iraq to Armenian parents displaced by the 1915 Armenian Genocide . His family had lived in Erzurum , Ottoman Empire ( now Turkey ) . His paternal great-grandparents , Tatyos and Elbiz Shiroian , had one daughter and four sons . Elbiz and her daughter , Arevalous ( Darzi 's grandmother ) , were the only survivors of the genocide . They fled on foot to northern Iraq with the aid of a friend of Tatyos . Darzi 's father was born in Mosul and his mother was born in Baghdad
1915 Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham