Edward Lloyd Jones
{{Short description|Australian businessman}}
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|birth_date= {{Birth date |df=y|1874|4|23}}
|birth_place= Sydney
|death_date= {{Death date and age|df=y|1934|2|2|1874|4|23}}
|death_place= Sydney
|education= Newington College
All Saints College, Bathurst
Sydney Grammar School
|occupation= Shorthorn cattle breeder
chairman of David Jones Limited
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|spouse= 1897, Jane Mander, née Jones (Dec 1909)
1911, Sarah Ruby, née Jones
|parents= Edward Lloyd Jones and Helen Ann, née Jones
|children= 3 sons and 3 daughters
|nationality= Australian
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Edward Lloyd Jones (23 April 1874 – 2 February 1934){{cite web
| title =Mr E Lloyd Jones – Death in Sydney
| newspaper =Courier-Mail
| date =3 February 1934
| publisher =The Courier-Mail (Brisbane 1933 – 1954)
| url =https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1166587
| accessdate = 9 December 2011 }} was an Australian Shorthorn cattle breeder and chairman of David Jones Limited.Who's Who in Australia 1935, International Press Service Association, (Sydney, 1935) pp 562 David Jones was founded in Sydney in 1838 and is the world's oldest continuously operating department store still trading under its original name.{{cite web|title=Story of David Jones |publisher=David Jones |url=http://www.davidjones.com.au/about/story_of_djs.jsp |accessdate=9 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415055105/http://www.davidjones.com.au/about/story_of_djs.jsp |archivedate=15 April 2008 }}
Early life
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Edward Lloyd Jones was born in Sydney, the fourth of six children of Edward Lloyd Jones and grandson of David Jones founder of the department store bearing his name. He was the older brother of Eric Lloyd Jones and Sir Charles Lloyd Jones.{{cite web
| title =The Descendants of Thomas Jones, 1757–1829.
| publisher =Mark Turnbull
| url =http://www.airgale.com.au/jones_t/d4.htm#i20712
| accessdate =9 December 2011 }} He was educated at Newington College from 1885 until 1887,Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp102 then at All Saints College, Bathurst,The History of All Saints College, Bathurst, 1873–1963 (Syd, 1963) pp244 and from October 1889 at Sydney Grammar School, although no leaving date is recorded in Grammar's register.{{cite web
| title =History of Sydney Grammar School – Archives
| publisher =Sydney Grammar School
| url =http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/history/
| accessdate =15 December 2011
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20111218221317/http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/history/
| archive-date =18 December 2011
| url-status =dead
}}
David Jones
File:Electric trams, George Street, David Jones corner from The Powerhouse Museum Collection.jpg
At eighteen years of age, Jones journeyed to England and entered the London office of David Jones. On his return to Australia he gained pastoral and cattle experience in the Burnett district of Queensland. He re-entered the family business upon the death of his father in the train disaster at Redfern, New South Wales in 1894. David Jones was then a private company but in 1906 it became a limited liability company. Jones then became chairman of directors, a position he held until he resigned in 1920. From 1906 until 1910 Jones and his family lived at Halsbury, 12–14 Albyn Road, Strathfield, a large two-storey Federation style house designed by architects Slatyer and Cosh in 1898.{{cite web
| title =Halsbury 12–14 Albyn Rd Strathfield
| date =5 August 2011
| publisher =Strathfield Heritage
| url =https://strathfieldheritage.org/houses/historic-housing-styles-in-strathfield/federation-housing-in-strathfield/halsbury-12-14-albyn-rd-strathfield/
| accessdate =9 December 2011 }}
Cattle breeder
From 1921, Jones devoted his attention to the breeding of beef Shorthorn cattle at Hambledon Hill, Singleton, New South Wales where in 1915, he had established a cattle stud. His Shorthorns won many prizes at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and Royal Melbourne Show, and at important country shows. He was president of the Beef Shorthorn Society of New South Wales for some time, and at his death was a vice-president. Jones was also president of the Northern Agricultural Association. Subsequently, he acquired a property at Tarcutta where he lived at the time of his death.
Family and death
Jones married his cousin, Miss Jane Mander Jones, the daughter of Sir Philip Sydney Jones, in 1897. They had two sons and two daughters. In 1911, after the death of his first wife, he married her younger sister, Miss Sarah Ruby Jones, who survived him on his death. There was a son and a daughter by his second marriage. His three sons (Edward, Charles, and David Owen Lloyd Jones{{cite web
| title =Lloyd-Jones, Owen (1915–1955)
| publisher =Obituaries Australia
| url =https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/lloyd-jones-owen-606
| accessdate = 9 December 2011 }} ), and three daughters, all survived him. Jones had come to Sydney from his cattle station at Tarcutta to see his mother before her death at Strathfield, on the Saturday before he died. He was cremated at Rookwood Cemetery, following a service at Trinity Congregational Church, Strathfield, which was built by his family and designed by his cousin, George Sydney Jones.
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Category:People educated at Newington College
Category:Australian businesspeople in retailing
Category:Businesspeople from Sydney