Elliott Lewis
Sir
Neil Elliot Lewis KCMG (Born;
Hobart,
October 27,
1858; Died
Hobart,
September 22,
1935),
Australian politician, was
Premier of Tasmania on three occasions
October 12,
1899 to
April 9,
1903 and
June 19,
1909 to
October 20,
1909 and
October 27,
1909 to
June 14,
1912. He was also a member of the first
Australian federal ministry.
Lewis was born in Tasmania but was educated at
Balliol College,
Oxford University. He was admitted as a barrister in
London in
1883 and returned to Tasmania where he was admitted as a barrister in
1885. He was elected to the
Tasmanian House of Assembly in
1886 and remained an MP until
1922. He was Attorney-General
1892-
1894, and Leader of the Opposition
1894-
99 He was Premier
1899-
1903.
Lewis was appointed as Minister Without Portfolio in the first federal ministry under
Edmund Barton in January
1901, but decided not to stand for the Federal Parliament and resigned his post in April, being replaced as Tasmania's representative by
Philip Fysh. He was again Premier of Tasmania in
1909. Then again Premier from
1909-
1912. During these times he also held the post of Attorney-General. After leaving politics he was Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania.
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Australian Commonwealth ministries 1901-2004*
List of Premiers of Tasmania
