Robert Jones (1845 – 7 January 1927) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to farmer William Jones and Anne Percival. He arrived in

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in the early 1860s and worked as a shearer, drover and stationhand at

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from 1862 to 1866. From 1872 to 1887 he was the butcher and hotelier at the goldmining town of

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, moving to

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in 1888. In 1891 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

. He was defeated in 1898, but returned in 1907 to serve a single term as a

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before being defeated again in 1910. Jones died in Mudgee in 1927.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Robert 1845 births 1927 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly