Richard Jones papers, 1857-1879

MLMSS 2546X

fonds

1857 - 1879

442774

1 outsize folder of textual material - manuscript, printed

Richard Jones, journalist, company director and parliamentarian, was born at Liverpool, England, the son of John and Elizabeth Jones. He was educated at Liverpool and apprenticed as a printer with the local newspaper. He emigrated to NSW with his wife Martha, arriving in 1838, and worked for the Sydney Monitor and the Australasian Chronicle. In 1843 Jones and Thomas Tucker established the 'Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser'. He returned to Sydney in 1855 having sold his interest in the newspaper and was elected a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for the seats of Durham (1856-1859) and The Hunter (1859-1860). Jones was appointed Colonial Treasurer in September 1857 in the second Cowper ministry, but resigned the position in January 1858. In 1859 he was invited by Sir William Denison to form government, but refused and he retired from politics in 1860.

He was elected to the board of directors of the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney and was chairman of the CBC bank for twenty years and was a director of a number of public companies. [ref:ADB 2]

Item 1
1859-1879; Letters [7] including letters from Sir William Denison, Sir John Young, Sir Charles Cowper and Sir Henry Parkes, mainly concerning official appointments
Items 2-4
1857-1863; Certificates of appointment [3]: to the Executive Council of NSW, 1857; Colonial Treasurer and Collector of Internal Revenue in NSW, 1857; and Commissioner for investigating and dealing with applications for bringing land under the provisions of the Real Property Act, 1863

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-568 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

This collection was listed in 2005 as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project.