Robert Hugh Minter

1921 - 2011  (90 years)

• Name	Robert Hugh Minter
  Birth	9 Sep 1921	Rose Bay, NSW, Australia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Nov 2011	Darling Point, NSW, Australia   [2]
  Cremation	18 Nov 2011	Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia   [3]
  _UID	D0CF0B72ECC74E29BED31042FC824D21152F
  Notes	Educated at Junior Prep School and Kings School, Parramatta, NSW, Australia. Baker House 1933 - 39. Junior school monitor, a School House Monitor and Company Sergeant Major in school Army Cadet Force. The Mile Championship Cup 1939; in Senior Athletics team; first 8 rowing; first XV rugby. Served in World War II - the following appears in the National Archives of Australia: MINTER ROBERT HUGH : Service Number - NX87931 : Date of birth - 09 Sep 1921 : Place of birth - SYDNEY NSW : Place of enlistment - PADDINGTON NSW : Next of Kin - MINTER CLIFFORD Admitted a solicitor in NSW in 1948. A solicitor at Sydney in 1961 - 62. Kings School Old Boy Union Rep. Hon Sec 1949 - 54, President 1967 - 69. Kings School Foundation Vice President 1978 - 79. School Governor 1960 - 81. WW2 service details at National Archives of Australia give date of birth as 9 September 1921. Engagement announced in Sydney Morning Herald 1 August 1947 (citation http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18044578). Australian Electoral Roll, 1949 for Woolahra, Wentworth, NSW includes at 26 Rosewount Avenue: Robert Hugh Minter, solicitor Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties. From The Sydney Morning Herald 9 February 1951, includes picture: (citation http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27532889) Married At St Mark's MR. and MRS. JOCK SIMPSON, after their marriage at St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, yesterday. The bride, formerly Miss Geraldine Pitt, second daughter of the late Mrs. Phillips and step-daughter of Mr Charles Phillips, of Double Bay, was attended by MRS. ROBERT MINTER, MISS BETTY LAING, MISS DIANA PITT and MISS PAT KERR. The bridegroom, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Telford Simpson, of Bellevue Hill, was attended by MR. PETER CARTER, and Messrs. Robert Minter, Phil Simpson and Gavin Anderson. Australian Electoral Rolls, 1954, 1958 for Woolahra East, Wentworth, NSW includes at 104 Victoria Road, Bellvue Hill: Robert Hugh Minter, solicitor Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties. Australian Electoral Roll, 1963 for Bellevue Hill, Wentworth, NSW includes at 104 Victoria Road, Bellvue Hill: Robert Hugh Minter, solicitor Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties. Australian Electoral Roll, 1968 for Bellevue Hill, Wentworth, NSW includes at 96 Wolsley Road, Point Piper: Robert Hugh Minter, solicitor Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties. Australian Electoral Roll, 1972 for Bellevue Hill, Wentworth, NSW includes at 38 Wolsley Road, Point Piper: Robert Hugh Minter, solicitor Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties Robert Clifford Minter, law clerk. Australian Electoral Roll, 1980 for Double Bay, Wentworth, NSW includes at 5/13a Thornton Street, Darling Point: Shirley Jeanette Minter, home duties. Robert is similarly listed, as a solicitor, but on a different page. Shirley is also listed in 1980 in Bellevue Hill, Wentworth at 38 Wolseley Road, Pt Ppr, home duties. An article in the Australian Women's Weekly of 2 January 1980 (citation http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43722134) was headed "When the Minters' house became too big, they decided to build two small ones - a city house and a family weekender". The Australian Women's Weekly of 10 November 1982 (citation http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44022701) included a picture of Robert and Jeanette and daughter Cecelia, guests at the party for Friends of Odyssey at Queen Street Galleries. Obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 2011: MINTER, Robert Hugh. November 14, 2011. Late of Darling Point. Dearly beloved husband of Jeanette. Loving father and father-in-law of Robert and Robbie, Andrew and Trina, Cecelia and Olivier and cherished Grandpa of Emily, Matthew, Timothy, Oliver, Alice, Nick, Henry and Anna, Great-grandpa of Oscar and Frank. Aged 90 years. Will Be Greatly Missed and Can Now Rest In Peace. The relatives and friends of ROB are invited to attend his funeral to be held in the North Chapel of the Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Delhi Road, North Ryde, on Friday (November 18, 2011), commencing at 10.15 a.m. Robert has a memorial plaque in the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens. It gives his birth date as 9 September 1921.
  Person ID	I513	Canterbury, Kent
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Clifford Minter,   b. 8 Dec 1885, Sydney, NSW, Australia d. 23 Sep 1977, NSW, Australia (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Nellie Ethel NIVISON,   b. 28 May 1898   d. 19 Sep 1956, 2 Rawson Road, Rose Bay, NSW, Australia (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1918	Walcha, NSW, Australia   [4]
  Family ID	F186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Shirley Jeanette PITT,   b. 6 Sep 1924, Edgecliff, NSW, Australia d. 26 Jan 2019, NSW, Australia (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	7 Jan 1948	St Mark's, Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia   [4, 5]
  	From marriage register at ancestry.com: Robert Minter, law clerk of Rawson Rd, Rose Bay NSW, bachelor, born Rose Bay NSW, 26, father Clifford Minter solicitor, mother Nellie Ethel Nivison. Shirley Jeanette Pitt of 9 Wiston Gadns, Edgecliff NSW, spinster born Bellevue Hill NSW, 23, father Eric Clarke Pitt (dec'd), architect, mother Amy Martha Cecilia Cooper. Witnesses C C Phillips, C Minter From the Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 8 January 1948, with a picture: Wedding At St. Mark's MR. AND MRS. ROBERT MINTER leaving St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, after their wedding yesterday afternoon. The bride was formerly Miss Jeanette Pitt, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. E. C. Pitt, and of Mrs. Charles Phillips, of Double Bay, and the bridegroom is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Minter, of Rose Bay.
  Children	1. Robert Clifford Minter   2. Andrew Charles Minter   3. Cecilia Jane Minter
  Family ID	F188	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 14 Nov 2011 - Darling Point, NSW, Australia Cremation - 18 Nov 2011 - Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S17] Cliff Minter. [S119] http://www.onlinetributes.com.au, November 2011. [S127] thelastpost.com.au, January 2012. [S28] New South Wales BMD index on-line December 2007 and later. [S71] http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18056552.