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Jones, Henry (1862 - 1926) |
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| Born: 19 July 1862 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Died: 29 October 1926 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | ||
| (Sir) Henry Jones began his working life at George Peacock's jam factory in 1874 and took control as H. Jones & Company when Peacock retired in 1891. He was a shrewd investor in promising Tasmanian undertakings, including the Thailand tin-dredging industry, from which his greatest profits came. |
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| Born Hobart Town, 19 July 1862. Died Melbourne, 29 October 1926. Kt 1919. George Peacock's jam factory from 1874, pasting labels on tins and becoming an expert jam-boiler within a few years; factory foreman from 1885; took control as H. Jones & Company in partnership with A.W. Palfreyman and Peacock's son Ernest 1889-1902, changing the name to IXL; IXL formed as a limited liability company 1903; IXL Prospecting Company formed about 1903; Tonghak Harbour Tin Dredging Company 1906 and Tongkah Compound 1910; became a leading Australian financier and one of the early advisers to the Commonwealth Bank; influential in the formation in Hobart of the Growers' Export pool 1919; bought the rival Hobart jam manufacturing company, W.D. Peacock & Company after World War I; retired 1922. | ||
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