Lucy Charlotte Benson

Lucy Charlotte Benson (1 March 1860 – 14 October 1943) was an Australian organist, musician and theatrical entrepreneur.

Life Benson was born in Hobart in 1860. She was the first child of Fanny (born Lempriere) and William Westbrook. She had a private education. As a child she was the organist in three and later four different churches. from Benson's production of The Toreador in 1926 in Tasmania. She was the lead in H.M.S. Pinafore, eighteen months after Gilbert and Sullivan first published it. She died in 1943 in the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay. She is considered to be the first female conductor in Tasmania