David Jones (Merchant) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David Jones (8 March 1793 - 29 March 1873), Sydney merchant and retailer founder of David Jones Limited. Jones was born in 1793, the son of Thomas Jones, a farmer near Llandeilo, Wales, and his wife Nancy. He became an apprenticed to a grocer in Carmarthen at a young age and his business talent lead to him being offered, at the age of 18, the management of a general store in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire. He later found employment with the firm of R. N. Nicholls, Wood Street, Cheapside in London, where in 1828 he married Jane Hall, the daughter of John Hall Mander of East Smithfield.