James Lyons (17 March 1842 – 27 July 1915) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to Myles Lyons and Bridget, ''née'' Cunningham. James left Ireland on 11 September 1855 aboard the emigrant ship Bee and arrived in New South Wales, Australia on 6 January 1856. He moved to

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, where he worked as a miner and timber hauler before establishing a sawmill in Cairns in 1881. He married Ellen Murphy, with whom he had nine children. He was a long-serving alderman on Cairns Shire Council, with a period as mayor from 1895 to 1896. He represented Cairns in the

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from 1902 to 1904 as a conservative ministerialist. In 1906 he was a founder of the Cairns Stock Exchange. He died in Cairns in 1915.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyons, James Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1842 births 1915 deaths Irish emigrants to colonial Australia