Josiah Thomas
Politician
1863 – 1933
Who was Josiah Thomas?
Josiah Thomas was an Cornish Australian miner and politician.
Thomas was born in Camborne, Cornwall, UK and went to Mexico as a child with his father and later worked in mines in Cornwall. He travelled to Australia in the mid-1880s and worked at the Barrier Range, near Broken Hill. He was appointed as a member of a royal commission on collieries in 1886 and worked as a mining captain and assayer in 1890. He married Henrietta Lee Ingleby in July 1889 and they subsequently had two sons and one daughter.
Thomas was elected to the executive of the Amalgamated Miners' Association in July 1891 and became president of its Broken Hill branch in 1892. He was a member of the Defence Committee formed during the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. As a result of his criticism of the magistracy in relation to the arrest of eight fellow committee-members on conspiracy charges, he was dismissed as a Justice of the Peace. The mining companies refused to give him work and he had to take up labouring, although as president of the AMA, he was appointed to a New South Wales Legislative Assembly inquiry into lead poisoning at the mines in 1892.
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- Born
- Apr 28, 1863
Camborne - Spouses
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 5, 1933
Croydon Park
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on July 23, 2013
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