Louis Lawrence Smith (15 May 1830 – 8 July 1910) was an Australian physician and politician. He was born in

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, to theatre proprietor Edward Tyrell Smith and his wife Madeline Hanette Gengoult. Louis attended St Saviour's Grammar School and the Ecole de Médecine in

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before entering

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. In 1852, he migrated to

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as surgeon on the ''Oriental'' and, after briefly mining gold, established a popular, unconventional medical practice in

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. In 1859, he was elected to the

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as the member for South Bourke, serving until 1865. He served again as the member for Richmond from 1871 to 1874 and 1877 to 1883) and Mornington from 1886 to 1894. From 1881 to 1883 he was a minister without portfolio. In 1883, following the end of his first marriage to Ellen that produced six children, he married Marion Jane Higgins at East Melbourne, with whom he had five children. Smith died in Melbourne in 1910. His daughter, Louise Hanson-Dyer, was a noted music publisher and arts patron, while his son, Sir Harold Gengoult Smith, was a

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1830 births 1910 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly English emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian medical doctors Politicians from Melbourne People from Richmond, Victoria People educated at St Saviour's Grammar School Politicians from London English surgeons Australian surgeons {{Australia-politician-stub