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Politician and hotelier in New South Wales, Australia

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. 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.

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.

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

References

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  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.
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New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded byLouis Heydon Member for Yass Plains
1886 – 1894 		Succeeded byWilliam Affleckas Member for Yass
Civic offices
Preceded byJames Cottrell Mayor of Yass
December 1874 – February 1876 		Succeeded byHenry Sampson
Preceded byGeorge Thomson Mayor of Yass
March 1881 – February 1883 		Succeeded byEdward Iceton
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