| 词条 | Lewis Adolphus Bernays |
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| name = Lewis Adolphus Bernays | honorific_suffix = CMG | image = File:Lewis Adolphus Bernays.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|5|3|df=y}} | birth_place = London, UK | death_date = {{death date and age|1908|8|22|1831|5|3|df=y}} | death_place = | burial_place = Toowong Cemetery | occupation = Public servant, agricultural writer | years_active = | alma_mater = King's College London | parents = Adolphus Bernays Martha Arrowsmith | relatives = Isaac Bernays (paternal uncle) }} Lewis Adolphus Bernays {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CMG}} (3 May 1831 – 22 August 1908) was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia. Early lifeBernays was the son of Dr Adolphus Bernays (a brother of Chakam Isaac Bernays), a professor of German language and literature at King's College London, and his wife Martha, née Arrowsmith, and was born in London. He was educated at King's College, and at the age of nineteen, emigrated to New Zealand, where he engaged in sheep farming for two years. AustraliaBernays went to Sydney in 1852 obtained a position on the staff of the parliament of New South Wales. In 1859 Sir George Bowen, the governor of Queensland had requested a clerk for the new Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Bernays was appointed and came to Brisbane in 1860, and was present at the opening of the first parliament. He organized the inner working of parliament, became an authority on procedure, and was the guide and friend of successive generations of members of parliament, until his death at Brisbane on 22 August 1908. Bernays had other activities and was for a time secretary to the Brisbane Board of Water Works and later a member of the board. He was one of the founders of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, and for a time its president. He was interested in economic botany, published The Olive and its Products (1872), and Cultural Industries for Queensland; Papers on the Cultivation of Useful Plants Suited to the Climate of Queensland (1883). In 1851 he married Mary Anne Eliza, daughter of William Borton. Created a C.M.G. in 1892, Bernays was a very competent public servant, who played a prominent part in the Queensland parliament. He knew thoroughly its law and practice, and in times of difficulties party leaders naturally turned to him. He was a man of culture and remained a student all his life. One of his sons, Charles Arrowsmith Bernays, born in 1862, was the author of Queensland Politics During Sixty Years, and of Queensland—Our Seventh Political Decade. Later lifeBernays died of heart failure on 22 August 1908 following a short illness and was survived by five sons and four daughters.[1][2] Bernays is buried in Toowong Cemetery.[3] LegacyIn 1909, a bust of Bernays was commissioned from sculptor James Laurence Watts for the Queensland Parliament House.[4] References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19539026 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=5 September 1908 |accessdate=1 March 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21816390 |title=Our Illustrations. |newspaper=The Queenslander |location=Brisbane |date=29 August 1908 |accessdate=1 March 2015 |page=29 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=140600 Bernays Lewis Adolphus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025035334/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=140600 |date=25 October 2014 }} — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 25 October 2014. 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19589588 |title=Parliamentary Library. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=3 July 1909 |accessdate=1 March 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
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