Richard Jones (New South Wales politician, born 1843)

Richard Jones (3 December 1843 – 30 April 1909) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Maitland to Richard Jones, at that time a newspaper publisher, and Martha Olley. He worked as a stock and station agent both in Sydney and in rural areas, eventually joining the firm Harrison, Jones and Devlin, of which he was managing director. On 20 February 1868 he married Mary Jane Coleson, with whom he had three children; he later married Edith Maria Moore, with whom he had a further eleven children. In 1899 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving until his death in Burwood in 1909.^[1]

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