Eric David Lloyd Jones (24 March 1885–15 December 1958) was an Australian-born

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singles tennis player, Friesian cattle breeder and director of

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Early life

Eric David Lloyd Jones was born in his parents home ''Bickley'' in

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, the youngest son of Edward Lloyd Jones and Helen Ann Lloyd Jones (née Jones). He was the grandson of David Jones founder of the department store bearing his name and the younger brother of Edward Lloyd Jones Jnr and

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Charles Lloyd Jones. He was educated at Homebush Grammar School and

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. Lloyd Jones was awarded a

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degree by the

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. He married Kathleen Booth Jones in 1908 at St. Anne's Anglican Church,

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Congregational Church

The extended Jones family were active members of the

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in Sydney. George Sydney Jones and Harry David Thompson were notable architects and cousins of Eric Lloyd Jones. They designed the Trinity Congregational Church in Strathfield that was given to that suburb by the Jones family.

David Jones

In 1894 Edward Lloyd Jones Snr was killed in the Redfern Rail Disaster. At the time David Jones was still a private company but in 1906 it became a limited liability company. From 1906 until 1958 all three of his sons would be involved in the management of David Jones. Eric Lloyd Jones followed his brother Edward Lloyd Jones Jnr as a director of David Jones Limited on his retirement to be become a cattle breeder.

Tennis

A talented sportsman from 1906 Lloyd Jones was representing New South Wales in Australian tennis competitions. In 1926 he played in the men’s singles championships at

Cattle breeder

In 1919 having purchased considerable rural acreage in the Southern Highlands of

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Lloyd Jones commissioned the fashionable Sydney architect James Peddle of the firm Peddle Thorp to design a commodious Californian style bungalow on his property out of Bundanoon. The property known as ''Lyndholme'', after subdivision is now known as ''Spring Hill'' but, still stands on the outskirts of that historic village. It is listed on the Local Environmental Plan of Wingecarribee Shire Council as an important structure designed by a pioneering 20th century architect.

Family and death

Lloyd Jones divorced his first wife Kathleen in 1933. After leaving his Bundanoon property he lived in Blachheath and died at his home in Chatswood in 1957 aged 73. He was survived by his fourth wife Marian who he had married earlier that year and was cremated at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Eric Lloyd Jones 1884 births 1958 deaths People educated at Sydney Grammar School Australian businesspeople in retailing Businesspeople from Sydney Australian Congregationalists Jones family Australian people of Welsh descent