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As a young man, Louis was a resident pupil in St Michael's Hospital, Dublin. He was a medical officer on an Atlantic mail steamer before 1883 and gave advice to military and naval authorities after military action. He sailed on the Ellora as an emigrant from England on 2 July 1883, arriving in Sydney October. He wrote many letters throughout the 1880s to the Sydney Herald about medical matters, immigration and the passage of bills through parliament. He lived in Queanbeyan in the early 1880s and became a Justice of the Peace. He set up practice in Macquoid Street and became a very popular doctor. He stayed in Queanbeyan for approximately five years before selling up in May 1888 and setting up practice in Dubbo. By 22 November 1900 he was in Queensland with his wife and children but on 7 January 1905 was building a brick cottage in Orange, NSW. In February 1919, he was living at Aberbaldie, Walcha. His only son, Noel, died from pneumonia at Military Hospital, Gibraltar, on 16 February 1919, aged 23. [Brief Biography compiled by Robin Hammond, January/February 2004]
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