Beryl Lillian Jones (née Davies; born 30 July 1932) is a former Australian politician who was a
Labor Party member of the
Legislative Council of
Western Australia
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from 1986 to 1993.
Jones was born in
Bootle
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Histo ...
,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, England, and after leaving school worked as a nurse. She emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, and re-trained as a schoolteacher, subsequently teaching at various high schools in the
Perth
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metropolitan area. Jones was elected to the
Town of Armadale council in 1981, and served until the
1986 state election, when she was elected to the Legislative Council's
Lower West Province
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. She became the fifth woman from the Labor Party to serve in the Legislative Council, and the seventh overall. At the
1989 state election, all the previous constituencies were abolished, with Jones successfully transferring to the new
South West Region. She retired from parliament at the
1993 state election.
Beryl Lillian Jones
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
References
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1932 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia
Australian schoolteachers
English emigrants to Australia
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
People from Bootle
Western Australian local councillors
Women members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Women local councillors in Australia