Thomas Llewellyn Jones
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = The Hon
|name = Thomas Jones
|honorific-suffix =
|image = Thomas Llewellyn Jones, 1941.JPG
|caption = Thomas Llewellyn Jones, 1941
| constituency_AM1 = Oxley
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 22 May 1915
| term_end1 = 16 March 1918
| predecessor1 = Digby Denham
| successor1 = Cecil Elphinstone
| office2 = Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
| term_start2 = 18 August 1919
| term_end2 = 23 March 1922
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1872|3|8}}
|birth_place = Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1946|6|18|1872|3|8}}
|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace =
|birthname = Thomas Llewellyn Jones
|nationality = Welsh Australian
|party = Labor
|otherparty =
|spouse = Amy Alice Lane (m. 1901 d. 1936), Gwendolen Gee (m. 1937 d. 1982)
|children =
| occupation = Company director
| relations =
| alma_mater =
}}
Thomas Llewellyn Jones ( 8 March 1872 – 18 June 1946) was a company director and member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1305545242|accessdate= 11 April 2015}}
Early life
Jones was born at Welshpool in Montgomeryshire, Wales, to John Jones his wife Elizabeth (née Llewellyn). He moved to Queensland at a young age and attended Brisbane Normal and Brisbane Grammar schools.
Political career
Jones, representing the Labor, won the state seat of Oxley at the 1915 Queensland state election, defeating the then premier of Queensland, Digby Denham.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20014217 |title=SUMMARY OF THE VOTING. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=24 May 1915 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} He held the seat for one term before losing to Cecil Elphinstone in 1918.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119928419 |title=THE VOTING. |newspaper=The Queensland Times |location=Ipswich, Queensland |date=18 March 1918 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
When the Labour Party starting forming governments in Queensland, it found much of its legislation being blocked by a hostile council, where members had been appointed for life by successive conservative governments. After a failed referendum in May 1917,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20143466 |title=TWO HOUSES, NOT ONE. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=7 May 1917 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} The premier, Ryan, tried a new tactic, and later that year advised the governor, Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, to appoint 13 new members whose allegiance lay with Labour to the council.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/goold-adams-sir-hamilton-john-6425 |title=Goold-Adams, Sir Hamilton John (1858–1920) |encyclopedia=Australian Dictionary of Biography |accessdate=11 April 2015}}
In August 1919, Jones was one of three additional new members, and sat for two and a half years until the council was abolished in March 1922.
Personal life
Jones was twice married, first to Amy Alice Lane in 1901 and together they had a son and daughter. Amy died in 1936,[https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/ Family history research] – Queensland Government Births, deaths, marriages, divorces. Retrieved 11 March 2015. and a year later he married Gwendolen Gee{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37922795 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=11 October 1937 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} (died 1982).
He was the chairman director of the provision merchants and commercial agents Foggitt, Jones & Co., a trustee of the Brisbane Grammar School, a senate member of the Queensland University, chairman of the Brisbane Hospital Board and commodore of the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron.
Jones died in Brisbane in June 1946 and was cremated at Mount Thompson crematorium.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50267632 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=19 June 1946 |accessdate=11 April 2015 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
References
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Council
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland