Lewis Adolphus Bernays
Lewis Adolphus Bernays | |
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| Born | 3 May 1831 London, UK |
| Died | 22 August 1908 (aged 77) |
Burial place | Toowong Cemetery |
| Education | King's College London |
| Occupations | Public servant, agricultural writer |
| Parent(s) | Adolphus Bernays Martha Arrowsmith |
| Relatives | Isaac Bernays (paternal uncle) |
Lewis Adolphus Bernays (3 May 1831 – 22 August 1908) C.M.G., F.L.S., F.R.G.S, was a public servant, the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and an agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia.
Early life
Bernays was born in London. He was the son of the professor Adolphus Bernays and his wife Martha, née Arrowsmith. He attended King's College and then moved to New Zealand.
In 1851 he married Mary Anne Eliza, daughter of William Borton.
Australia
Bernays went to Sydney in 1852 and began working at the New South Wales Parliament. In 1859 Sir George Bowen, the governor of Queensland had requested a clerk for the new Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Bernays became the Clerk of Parliament in 1860, a position that he held for over 47 years.[1][2]
He published writing on agricultural economics, including The Olive and its Products in 1872[3] and Cultural Industries for Queensland; Papers on the Cultivation of Useful Plants Suited to the Climate of Queensland in 1883.[4]
His son Charles Arrowsmith Bernays wrote about his father: 'On his death he was fittingly described by J. T. Bell as being of the best and rarest type of public servant'.[5]
Affiliations
Bernays was on the committee of the Johnsonian Club in 1880, its second year of existence.[6]
He founded the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, holding positions of Councillor, Honorary Secretary, Vice-President, President and vice-patron for many years.[1][7]
Bernays was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.,[8][7] and a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland Branch).[9]
Later life
Bernays died of heart failure on 22 August 1908 following a short illness and was survived by five sons and four daughters.[10][11] Bernays is buried in Toowong Cemetery.[12][13]
Legacy
In 1909, a bust of Bernays was commissioned from sculptor James Laurence Watts for the Queensland Parliament House.[14]
References
- 1 2 Sim, Jeannie (1996). "Lewis Adolphus Bernays – Botanist, Writer and Public Servant". Australian Garden History. 8 (2): 20. JSTOR 44179648. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ↑ "Mr. L. A. Bernays". The Telegraph. No. 8, 686 (2nd ed.). Queensland, Australia. 21 September 1900. p. 4. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Bernays, Lewis A. (1872). "The Olive and its Products". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ↑ "Cultural industries for Queensland: papers on the cultivation of useful plants suited to the climate of Queensland; their value as food, in the arts, and in medicines; and methods of obtaining their products". State Library of Queensland. 1883. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ↑ Bernays, Charles Arrowsmith (n.d.). Queensland Politics During Sixty (1859–1919) Years. Brisbane: A.J. Cumming, Govt. Printer. p. 23.
- ↑ "The Brisbane Courier". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXXIV, no. 3, 951. Queensland, Australia. 19 January 1880. p. 2. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- 1 2 "Late Mr. Bernays". The Telegraph. No. 11165. Queensland, Australia. 29 August 1908. p. 3. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Obituary Notice". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 121: 35. 5 November 1908. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2024 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ↑ "Scientific & Useful". The Queenslander. Vol. LVII, no. 1270. Queensland, Australia. 3 March 1900. p. 396. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Family Notices". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 5 September 1908. p. 4. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "Our Illustrations". The Queenslander. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 29 August 1908. p. 29. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "Lewis Adolphus Bernays". Brisbane City Council. Archived from the original on 26 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ↑ "Late Mr. L.A. Bernays". The Telegraph. No. 11160 (2nd ed.). Queensland, Australia. 24 August 1908. p. 8. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Parliamentary Library". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 3 July 1909. p. 4. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Bernays, Lewis Adolphus". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- Clem Lack, 'Bernays, Lewis Adolphus (1831–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, p. 149.