After studying in
England, Benakis emigrated to Alexandria, Egypt, where he worked for the Greek cotton industrialist Horemi, and into whose family he married. He had six children, among whom were the writer
Penelope Delta, the art collector
Antonis Benakis and Argini Salvago whose daughter married into the Melas family. Benakis became the president of the Greek community in
Alexandria and ran the largest enterprise of Greek
cotton brokers in Egypt. He accumulated a considerable fortune. ==References==