Cyril Ionides

Best known as the central figure behind A Floating Home, he opened a window onto an unusual way of living: making a home aboard a Thames sailing barge. The book presents that experiment in domestic life on the river as both practical and charming, blending travel, family routine, and the pleasures of an unconventional home.

Project Gutenberg lists A Floating Home under his name with J. B. Atkins, and the book itself explains that the story is written from Ionides's experience as the owner of the barge, with Atkins shaping the narrative. That collaboration gives the work an easy, readable style while keeping its appeal rooted in lived experience.

Genealogical records suggest he was Cyril Constantine Luke Ionides, born in 1873 and died in 1960. Even with only a small surviving bibliography, A Floating Home has endured because it captures something timeless: the delight of building a family life a little differently from everyone else.