Individual Details

Violinist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Extract from The Courier-Mail: Mr. Arthur Minton, who held ticket No. 12279. which won 1000 pounds in tho No. 5 Mammoth Golden Casket, told a representative of The Courier-Mail how he and other members of the "Friday, 13th" Syndicate had just completed the first item on the main evening programme from Station 4QG, and were resting in the reception room, when Mr. D. Felsman, programme manager, advised him of his good fortune. Included in the syndicate were several of Brisbane's' best known musicians. It was during three weeks of casual work as a member of the "Tdui Paris" orchestra at His Majesty's Theatre, in November, that Mr, Minton and other musicians Mr. and Mrs. Leo Benvenuti, Charles Groves, T. Waldron, L. Lammachl, "Bobby" Gibson, Arthur Griffiths, J. Fidlon, and J. Doherty and E. Ambler decided to Invest in the ticket which proved so profitable. Nine of them will receive 100 pound each and two will get 50 pound.

Catherine Scott says: 'Italians of Brisbane' written by Fabio Baggio makes mention of Maestro Antonio Benvenuti, Leo's grandfather and his marriage to the 'very young Catherine'

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Birth	4 Jun 1900	West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australian Colonies
Marriage	21 Apr 1924	St Stephens Cathedral, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Mary Alice COOK
Residence	1968	"Venezia", Princess Street, Taringa, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Death	22 May 1975	Canossa Hospital, Oxley, Brisbane, Australia
Cremation	Aft 22 May 1975	Mt Thompson Crematorium, 329 Nursery Rd, Holland Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Interment of ashes	Aft 22 May 1975	Saint Matthews Anglican Cemetery, Sherwood, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

Spouse	Mary Alice COOK (1896 - 1979)
Child	Gilda Margarita Maria BENVENUTI (1925 - 2007)
Child	Leonora Alicia BENVENUTI (1926 - 2011)

Father	Luigi Antonio BENVENUTI (1859 - 1934)
Mother	Margaret Jane "Peggy" HINCH (1873 - 1932)

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