1. Lewis Windermere Nott was an Australian politician, medical practitioner and hospital superintendent.
16 Facts About Lewis Nott
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Lewis Nott represented two federal electorates, more than 1,000 kilometres and 21 years apart.
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Lewis Nott was the son of Frederick Lewis Nott, a planter, and Jean Blair.
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Lewis Nott then studied assaying at the School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, Victoria before undertaking a medical degree at the University of Sydney.
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Lewis Nott resigned his commission and resumed his medical training in December 1916.
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Lewis Nott returned to Australia and took part in the campaign against hookworm and then was appointed medical superintendent of Mackay District Hospital.
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In 1928 Lewis Nott lost the seat to the Labor candidate, George Martens.
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Lewis Nott ran unsuccessfully as a Nationalist in North Sydney and as a member of the Nationalists' successor, the United Australia Party, in Calare and East Sydney.
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Lewis Nott moved to Canberra in 1927, the year that it became the national capital.
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Lewis Nott campaigned for the creation of an advisory council for the Federal Capital Territory and was elected as a member of the council from 1935 to 1949.
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Lewis Nott's break in parliamentary service of 21 years is a record for the Australian parliament.
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Lewis Nott was one of the few people who have represented more than one state or territory in the Parliament, and the only one to represent both a state and a territory.
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Lewis Nott was defeated by the Labor candidate Jim Fraser in the 1951 election.
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Lewis Nott was appointed as medical officer at the Newborough Clinic, Yallourn, Victoria, but collapsed on the flight to Melbourne and died the next day of leukemia in Royal Melbourne Hospital and is buried in the Presbyterian Section of the Woden Cemetery, Canberra.
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Lewis and Doris Nott had three sons and two daughters.
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One of his grandchildren, Matthew Lewis Nott, is a surgeon and environmentalist.