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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Walter Leonard (Taylor) Jones

Parliamentary Service

House

MLA

Party

Labor

Date Elected

29 September 1917

Electorate

Fremantle

Service

Electorates

MLA Fremantle 29 September 1917–12 March 1921
Contested Fremantle 12 March 1921

Private Member's Bills

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1921

Personal Information

Birth date

2 October 1885

Place of birth

Sedgley, Dudley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Death date

16 January 1924

Cause of death

Place of death

Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

Arrived WA 1905

Parents

Son of James, registrar and civil servant (workhouse master), and Elizabeth Mary Simpson

Marriage and Family

Married 6 February 1915, District Registry Office, Bunbury, Winifred Alwina Ninke (born circa 1885), daughter of Rudolph and Gertrude Myers
Children: one daughter

Religion

Church of England

Education

Educated Dudley Elizabethan School and Birmingham University
Studied for ministry but did not complete course

Occupation

Auctioneer

Employment History

Auctioneer and insurance agent at Collie and Fremantle
Enlisted 10 August 1915, New Guinea Guard, 4th Tropical Force Field Company
Served at Rabaul, Sergeant 1 November 1916
Discharged because of ill-health 16 May 1917
Journalist from 1921

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Resided at Cottesloe

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2010, p. 109.
West Australian, 1 October 1917.

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