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Eric David Lloyd Jones (1 January 1884–15 December 1958) was an Australian Wimbledon tennis champion, Friesian cattle breeder and chairman of David Jones Limited.

Early life

Eric David Lloyd Jones was born in Canterbury, New South Wales, the son of Edward Lloyd Jones and Helen Ann Lloyd-Jones (née Jones). He was the grandson of David Jones founder of the department store bearing his name. He was a younger brother of Edward Lloyd Jones Jnr and older brother of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones. He was educated at Homebush Grammar School, Sydney Grammar School and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree by the University of Sydney.

Congregational Church

The extended Jones family were active members of the Congregational Church in Sydney. The architects George Sydney Jones and Harry Thompson were notable in the 1880s and 1890s and were cousins of Eric Lloyd Jones. They designed the Trinity Congregational Church in Strathfield that was given to the district by the Jones family.

David Jones

In 1894 Edward Lloyd Jones Snr was killed in the Redfern Rail Disaster. At the time David Jones was still a private company but in 1906 it became a limited liability company. From 1906 until 1958 all three of his sons would lead David Jones. Eric Lloyd Jones followed his brother Edward Lloyd Jones Jnr as managing director of David Jones Limited in 1920.

Cattle breeder

In 1919 having bought considerable rural acreage in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales Lloyd Jones commissioned the fashionable Sydney architect James Peddle to design a commodious Californian style bungalow on his property out of Bundanoon. The property Lyndholme after subdivision is now known as Spring Hill but still stands on the out skirts of that historic village. It is listed on the Local Environmental Plan of Wingecarribee Shire Council as an important structure designed by a pioneering 20th century architect.

Family and death

Lloyd Jones divorced his fist wife in 1938 but was survived by his second wife and a son when he died in Sydney in 1958.

References

1. "Eric Lloyd Jones Home". The Daily Telegraph. No. 15, 005. New South Wales, Australia. 13 January 1928. p. 7. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "MR. E. LLOYD JONES". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. 3, , no. 302. New South Wales, Australia. 3 February 1934. p. 3. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
3. "HOMEBUSH GRAMMAR SCHOOL". The Daily Telegraph. No. 6089. New South Wales, Australia. 19 December 1898. p. 3. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
4. SGS Liber Nominum 1857-1913 Retrieved 23 December 2024.
5. Alumni Sidneienses Retrieved 23 December 2024.
6. "TRINITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, STRATHFIELD". The Daily Telegraph. No. 3229. New South Wales, Australia. 5 November 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
7. David Jones Celebrates 180 Years of Style Retrieved 23 December 2024.
8. "BOARD MEMBER". The Sun. No. 6161. New South Wales, Australia. 9 August 1930. p. 5 (LAST RACE FOOTBALL). Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
9. 1910s: the bungalow from California to Australia Retrieved 23 December 2024.
10. LEP Retrieved 23 2024.
11. Don’t Laugh: Keeping the Joneses Up Retrieved 18 November 2024.

• 1884 births
• 1958 deaths
• People educated at Sydney Grammar School
• Australian businesspeople in retailing
• Businesspeople from Sydney
• Australian Congregationalists
• Jones family
• Australian people of Welsh descent