Leslie Thomas Hollis (23 May 1865 – 7 August 1898) was an Australian politician. He was born in

Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victor ...

to Henry Hollis, who was superintendent of Goulburn Hospital, and Julia Regan. He attended school locally and became a student teacher for four years before studying medicine at the

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. He received a

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and a

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, and from 1890 was house surgeon of

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. He practised in Goulburn from 1891. In 1891 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

. In 1893 he refused to sign the pledge for a binding Labor vote, and became associated with the

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rs. He retired in 1898 and died at Goulburn, unmarried, shortly afterwards.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollis, Leslie 1865 births 1898 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Free Trade Party politicians University of Sydney alumni 19th-century Australian politicians