Thomas Colls
Politician and hotelier in New South Wales, Australia
About Thomas Colls
Lived 1822 – 1898 (aged 75–76). Thomas Colls was a politician, wheelwright and hotel manager.
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. 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, re-elected in 1875. He continued to serve as an alderman until 1897.
Colls died at Yass in .
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Politician and hotelier in New South Wales, Australia
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Thomas Colls died in 1898 in Yass.
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Thomas Colls was a politician, wheelwright and hotel manager.
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