Charles Benyon Lloyd Jones

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Charles Benyon Lloyd Jones with Edwina Hordern at the French Painting Today exhibition , Sydney 1953

Charles Benyon Lloyd Jones (born December 4, 1932 in Sydney , † July 11, 2010 in Wyoming, New South Wales ) was an Australian businessman and art patron . In the 140-year Australian history of the Jones family, he was the last member to run the David Jones department store chain .

Life

Charles Benyon Lloyd Jones was the second son of the chairman of the Australian department store chain David Jones , Charles Lloyd Jones , and his third wife, Hannah Benyon Jones, who had married in Chicago in 1929 . In 1932, his parents bought the former property of the poet Dorothea Mackellar called Rosemont in Woollahra , a district of Sydney. Jones Jr. lived here for 50 years. Like his brother David before, he attended Cranbrook School . He then studied art at the University of Sydney and applied psychology at the University of New South Wales , but did not take the exams. He did his military service in Ingleburn and Singleton .

David-Jones - Flagship store , on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Market Street, Sydney

Jones joined the family business in 1952. He had worked for a year at Bullock’s department store in Los Angeles , after his return he held the position of advertising manager in the department store on Market Street in central Sydney. In 1957 he became a director of the company, after the death of her father in 1958 his brother David Lloyd Jones became chairman . The brothers got along well and met for dinner twice a week. In March 1961, David Lloyd Jones died at the age of thirty within weeks of being diagnosed with cancer, after which Charles ran the company alone. He was also credited with introducing the houndstooth pattern for the David Jones logo.

During his time as Chairman , he created the David Jones Properties and the David Jones Awards for Fashion Excellence , which lead to today's Australian Fashion Awards . Under him, David Jones expanded to other states in Australia and bought Buffums' on the west coast of the United States. He opened the David Jones Food Hall on Market Street, which changed the gastronomic life of Sydney. For more than a decade he was a councilor and intermittent president of the Australian Retailers Association . He chaired the State Pollution Control Committee for four years and was a member of the Darling Harbor Authority . For seven years he was Governor of London House , which provided housing for foreign students in the UK. From 1972 to 1983 he was a curator and for the last four years President of the Art Gallery of New South Wales . He was also the founding donor of the Art Gallery Foundation and worked on the foundation's board of directors until 2001.

Like his father, he also sponsored the David Jones Art Gallery . In 1978 he became the first trustee of the William Dobell Foundation and in 2002 its chairman, acquired art from young students and supported Art Express , which exhibited the work of high school graduates. From 1972 to 1988 he was Consul General of the Finnish Chamber of Commerce and in the Chambers of Commerce of Italy, France and Finland responsible for the organization of cultural and consumer exhibitions. Jones received honors as Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , as Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland, and on Queen's Birthday 1978 as Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George .

After the department store chain had been family-owned for 140 years, the Adelaide Steamship Company took control of the company in 1980 . Jones remained as chairman (non-executive) for another year, after which Adsteam went bankrupt and Jones' stock fell from A $ 12 to a few cents. As a result, Jones had to sell the Rosemont estate and some of its contents in 1981 . His mother passed away the following year. He now lived mostly on his Summerlees farm in the Yarramalong Valley near Wyong , where he raised Murray Gray cattle. In 1992 he sold his Graham Jahn- designed house in Watsons Bay . Later he also sold the farm in Summerlees and large parts of the property belonging to it and moved to a smaller house on 40 hectares. His possessions, including Rolls-Royces and Bentleys , paintings by William Dobell and Arthur Ernest Streeton, and his holdings of Georgian silver, baccarat crystal , Meissen porcelain and Staffordshire pottery were all auctioned.

Charles Benyon Lloyd Jones was inclined to both sexes and remained unmarried. He died alone in a retirement home in July 2010, with four landscape paintings by his father on the walls. He had previously announced that he hardly needed anything else.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark McGinness: Name synonymous with DJs. In: The Age (Melbourne). July 17, 2010, accessed September 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ruth Tompson: Jones, Sir Charles Lloyd (1878-1958). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography, adb.anu.edu.au
  3. ↑ Lady Hannah Benyon Lloyd Jones OBE. 1901-1982. In: National Portrait Gallery, portrait.gov.au
  4. ^ Benedict Brook: David Jones' 180th anniversary: ​​Why it would be 'nuts' for retailer to ditch its famous houndstooth pattern. In: news.com.au of May 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Charles Benyon Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian businessman and art patron
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2010
Place of death Wyoming, New South Wales