Lewis Hotop
{{Short description|New Zealand pharmacist and politician (c.1844–1922)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox mayor
| birth_name = Ludwig Adolph Heinrich Hotop
| image =
| alt =
| office = 7th Mayor of Queenstown
| term_start1 = 1880
| term_end1 = 1881
| predecessor1 = Frederick Henry Daniel
| successor1 = William Warren
| term_start2 = 1891
| term_end2 = 1894
| predecessor2 = Francis St Omer
| successor2 = Francis St Omer
| term_start3 = 1903
| term_end3 = 1906
| predecessor3 = Francis St Omer
| successor3 = Maurice James Gavin
| birth_date = {{{birth year|1844}}}
| birth_place = Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and given age|1922|09|29|78|df=y}}
| death_place = Dunedin, New Zealand
| spouse = {{marriage|Catherine Elizabeth Sproule|1873|1895|end=d.}}
| relations = John Hotop (great-nephew)
| children =
}}
Lewis Adolph Henry Hotop {{post-nominals|country=NZL|JP|size=85%}} (born Ludwig Adolph Heinrich Hotop; {{circa}}1844 – 29 September 1922) was a New Zealand pharmacist, politician and Arbor Day advocate. He served as mayor of Queenstown Borough on three separate occasions.
Biography
Hotop was born {{Circa|1844}}, and educated in Saalfeld. He went to sea for about four years before settling in Queenstown, New Zealand in 1867. He initially worked for Hallenstein and Company, and later bought their pharmacy business on the corner of Rees and Ballarat Streets.{{cite book |title=Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d7-d85-d3.html |accessdate=19 April 2014 |year=1905 |publisher=Cyclopedia Company |location=Christchurch |page=1021}}{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BH18740804.2.6 | title=Our traveller | date=4 August 1874 | work=Bruce Herald | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=3}}
He was naturalised in Australia in 1866 and in New Zealand in 1870.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18700618.2.28 | title=News of the week | date=18 June 1870 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=14}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DOM19160601.2.54 | title=An inquisitive member | date=1 June 1916 | work=The Dominion | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=6}} By 1873, he was registered by the Otago provincial government as a vendor of poisons{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TT18730213.2.10&srpos=3 | title=Local and general | date=13 February 1873 | work=Tuapeka Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=4}} and he purchased a newsagent business in Clyde later that year.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TT18730821.2.8 | title=Local and general | date=21 August 1873 | work=Tuapeka Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=5}} On 18 November 1873, he married Catherine Elizabeth Sproule, who was governess to the children of Bendix Hallenstein, at Hallenstein's home.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18731125.2.8 | title=Marriage | date=25 November 1873 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18950725.2.53.2 | title=Obituary | date=25 July 1895 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=28}}
File:Rees Street Queenstown 1906.jpg
In 1878, he was appointed manager of the Wakatipu Steam Navigation Company, providing passenger services on Lake Wakatipu.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BH18780823.2.28 | title=Queenstown | date=23 August 1878 | work=Bruce Herald | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=7}} He was also an agent for the Union Insurance Company{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18820201.2.13 | title=The Queenstown fire | date=1 February 1882 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}} and manager of the Mount Earnslaw Quartz-mining Company.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18840912.2.30.2 | title=Calls, &c | date=12 September 1884 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=3}} Flooding in Queenstown in October 1878 saw extensive damage to businesses close to Lake Wakatipu and Hotop's chemist shop was one of the worst affected: flood waters in nearby Eichardt's Hotel were reported to be four feet (1.2 metres) deep.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TT18781005.2.11 | title=Queenstown | date=5 October 1878 | work=Tuapeka Times | accessdate=22 April 2014 | page=2}}
Hotop served as mayor of Queenstown from 1880 to 1881, from 1891 to 1894 and again from 1903 to 1906.{{cite web |url=http://www.qldc.govt.nz/past_mayors_of_the_qldc |title=Past mayors of the QLDC |publisher=Queenstown Lakes District Council |accessdate=19 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102032400/http://www.qldc.govt.nz/past_mayors_of_the_qldc |archivedate=2 November 2012 |df=dmy-all }}
In 1886, he was appointed a member of a committee seeking to establish a branch of the Otago School of Mines in Queenstown{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18860130.2.39 | title=The country | date=30 January 1886 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=12}} and elected vice-president of the Lakes District Acclimatisation Society.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18860420.2.9 | title=untitled | date=20 April 1886 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}} He played a prominent role in the introduction of trout to the district and maintained a private hatchery.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18861126.2.54.1 | title=Lake County | date=26 November 1886 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=16}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18861210.2.76 | title=Championship of Loch Leven | date=10 December 1886 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=25}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18881102.2.93.2 | title=Bank notes | date=2 November 1888 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=28}} In 1887, he was appointed as a trustee and president of the Queenstown Athenaeum.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18870603.2.20 | title=Gazette notices | date=3 June 1887 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18870708.2.46.2 | title=Lake County | date=8 July 1887 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=18}} In 1889, he was appointed secretary of the Queenstown committee for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18890422.2.21 | title=The exhibition | date=22 April 1889 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}} and also appointed the government meteorologist at the new weather station in Queenstown.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ST18891206.2.18 | title=Queenstown | date=6 December 1889 | work=Southland Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=2}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18901016.2.28.4 | title=Notes from Wakatipu | date=16 October 1890 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=12}} He was elected a director of the Great Northern Dredging Company in 1890.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18901218.2.73 | title=The Great Northern Dredging Company, Limited | date=18 December 1890 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=7}} In 1892, he was appointed as a coroner.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18920721.2.31 | title=Omnuim gatherum | date=21 July 1892 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=4}} He also served as a trustee on the Wakatipu District Hospital Board{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19061212.2.120.1 | title=Lake County | date=12 December 1906 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=35}} and secretary of the Queenstown branch of the Otago Expansion League.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19150416.2.31 | title=untitled | date=16 April 1915 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=4}}
Hotop was a passionate tree planter and was largely responsible for plantings around the shores of Lake Wakatipu and town environs.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HNS19221006.2.15 | title=Personal items | date=6 October 1922 | work=Hawera and Normanby Star | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=4}}{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18970311.2.14 | title=Tree-planting at Queenstown | date=11 March 1897 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=7}} As a member of the Queenstown school committee, Hotop first moved the introduction of Arbor Day and the inaugural observance took place in Queenstown in 1890.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18920811.2.45.2 | title=Lake County | date=11 August 1892 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=20}} He was referred to as the "father of Arbour Day in New Zealand".{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18911210.2.81.3 | title=Come before his time | date=10 December 1891 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=21}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18920901.2.63 | title=Arbor Day | date=1 September 1892 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=20}} He also served on the committee of the Wakatipu Horticultural Society.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19010821.2.131.1 | title=Lake County | date=21 August 1901 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=31}}
Hotop was widowed by the death from cancer of his wife in 1895.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18950718.2.85 | title=Deaths | date=18 July 1895 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=33}} He was active in the Anglican church, serving as a vestryman, church warden and lay reader,{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19070417.2.144.1 | title=Lake Country | date=17 April 1907 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=35}} and attending the Dunedin diocesan synod in 1891.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18911029.2.132 | title=Anglican diocesan synod | date=29 October 1891 | work=Otago Witness | accessdate=19 April 2014 | page=35}}
During World War I, questions were raised in Parliament about Hotop's and his family's loyalty by John Payne, a member of Parliament who was known for his strong anti-German sentiment. Hotop was defended by the government ministers of the day, who noted his naturalised status, his long and ongoing contributions to the Queenstown community and his family members' service in the New Zealand armed forces, including one severely wounded at Gallipoli.
Hotop sold his dispensary in 1920.{{cite web |url=http://www.wilkinsonspharmacy.co.nz |title=Wilkinsons pharmacy |year=2011 |website= |publisher= |accessdate=19 April 2014}} He died two years later in Dunedin and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries_search?recordid=5207&type=Burial |title=Cemeteries search |date= |website= |publisher=Dunedin City Council |accessdate=19 April 2014}}
Hotop's Rise, a walkway from Camp Street to Frankton Road in Queenstown, is named in his honour.
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:German emigrants to New Zealand
Category:New Zealand pharmacists
Category:Mayors of Queenstown-Lakes