Person
Lewis, Fred (1882 - 1956)
- Born
- 4 July 1882
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 7 August 1956
Malvern, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Conservationist and Naturalist
Summary
Fred Lewis worked as clerk with the Victorian Public Service for around twenty-four years before being appointed Head and Chief Inspector of the Department of Agriculture (1924). He was an avid naturalist with a keen sense of conservation. Lewis helped re-establish the near-extinct koala population in Victoria and helped save the fate of local seal populations by proving they were not a threat to the fishing industry. He travelled all over the State conducting field work and wrote numerous articles for the press and natural history journals such as Emu. After retiring from the Victorian Public Service, Fred Lewis continued to pursue his natural history interests. He became President, then Honorary Secretary of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club and was a member of the management committee of the Sperm Whale Head National Park.
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Chronology
- 1900 - 1904
- Career position - Clerk in the Office of the Public Service Board of the Victorian Public Service
- 1905 - 1913
- Career position - Clerk with the ports and harbours branch of the Department of Public Works
- 1910
- Career position - Established a reserve on Quail Island to re-establish the koala population in Victoria
- 1913 - 1924
- Career position - Supervising Clerk and occasional Acting Chief Inspector of the fisheries and game branch of the Department of Agriculture
- 1920s
- Career position - Saved mutton-bird rookeries at Cape Woolamai by revegetating the area
- 1924 - 1947
- Career position - Chief Inspector and Head of Fisheries and Game in the Department of Agriculture
- 1947 -
- Career position - Member of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club
- 1947
- Life event - Retired
- 1949 - c. 1951
- Career position - Vice-President of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club
- 1951 - 1955
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Victorian Field Naturalists' Club
Published resources
Book Sections
- Smith, Ann G., 'Lewis, Fred (1882-1956)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), p. 92. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100085b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22813112. Details
- 'Lewis, Fred (1882-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1461260. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 March 2007
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