Enrico Brunetti

His mother was from Bath, Somersetshire and his father, of Italian origin came from Fossombrone, Rome, was a confectioner and importer of wines who ran a restaurant in South Kensington.

From a young age, Brunetti showed interest in music composition and was trained by Giacomo Ferrari and Enrico Mattei.

He went to India as a musical conductor for Tivoli Theatre in Calcutta and for sometime worked with Bandman Opera Company travelling to Singapore and Java.

In 1904 he made a musical tour of the Dutch East Indies, China and Japan making extensive insect collections on his travels.

At the suggestion of Thomas Nelson Annandale he was sanctioned leave to go to England to revise his manuscript on Indian Diptera using the material at the British Museum.

[1] In 1921 he returned to Europe, spending his summers in England where The Imperial Bureau of Entomology employed him to identify specimens.