Date of Birth: 
About Robert Hollis
- Robert Hollis (14 January 1851 – 25 May 1937) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at Belper in Derbyshire to labourer Robert Hollis and Mary Ann Wragg.
- He worked in the railways from the age of thirteen, becoming an engine driver in 1878.
- In 1875, he married Alice Turton at Ripley; they would have six children.
- Hollis was active in the local Liberal Party, and following his emigration to Australia he was a founding member of the Labour Party in 1891.
- A prominent member of the Locomotive Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners Association, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1901 as the Labor member for Newtown-Erskine, moving to Newtown in 1904.
- He was a Labor backbencher until 1916, when he was expelled from the party for supporting conscription; he followed the Premier, William Holman, into the Nationalist Party, but was defeated at the elections in 1917.
- Hollis died at Ashfield in 1937.
Read more at Wikipedia