Thomas Colls

Mr Thomas Colls MLA for Yass Plains

Thomas Colls (1822 – 2 March 1898) was a politician and hotelier in New South Wales.

He was born in Liverpool to Thomas Colls and Sarah Perkins. He attended a boarding school near Campbelltown before being apprenticed to a wheelwright. In 1847 he moved to Yass, working as a wheelwright, blacksmith and farrier.[1] He became a hotelier in 1848, retiring in 1873. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Clegg in 1842 and produced ten children; the second was to Minnie Linsley in 1894. In around 1874 Colls was elected a Yass alderman and was elected Mayor of Yass in December 1874,[2] re-elected in 1875.[3] He continued to serve as an alderman until 1897.[1]

serving four times as mayor. In 1886, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Yass Plains. A Protectionist, he held the seat until his defeat in 1894 when the district was renamed Yass.[4][5]

Colls died at Yass in 1898 (aged 75–76).[6]

References

1. Schulz, C P (1969). "Colls, Thomas (1822–1898)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
2. "Municipal district of Yass". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 280. 8 December 1874. p. 3695. Retrieved 3 June 2021 – via Trove.
3. "Municipal district of Yass". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 35. 16 February 1875. p. 471. Retrieved 3 June 2021 – via Trove.
4. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Yass Plains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "1894 Yass". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
6. "Mr Thomas Colls (1822-1898)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

 

New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Louis Heydon	Member for Yass Plains 1886 – 1894	Succeeded by William Affleck as Member for Yass
Civic offices
Preceded by James Cottrell	Mayor of Yass December 1874 – February 1876	Succeeded by Henry Sampson
Preceded by George Thomson	Mayor of Yass March 1881 – February 1883	Succeeded by Edward Iceton