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

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from 1986 to 1993. Jones was born in

Bootle Bootle (pronounced ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Bootle (UK Parliament constituency), Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449. Histo ...

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, 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 Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

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 The Lower West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Peel and South West region of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the ''Constit ...

. 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Beryl 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