Edith Jones (activist) dating history

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Edith Emily Jones (1875 – 1952) was an Australian activist, noted for her advocacy for Indigenous Australians in the 1920s. Born Edith Brown in Clapham, she initially trained as a school teacher, before meeting Rev. John Jones, a clergyman from the Church of England. The two were married in London in 1904, and the couple embarked for Australia later that year, when John was appointed as head of the Anglican church mission on Thursday Island. Although returning to England briefly at one stage, by 1912 John was the general secretary of the Australian Board of Missions, based in Sydney. The couple moved again in the 1920s, this time to St Kilda in Melbourne, where Edith was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in the Victorian Children's Court. She also joined the Victorian Women Citizens' Movement and became its president, also standing for election for the federal seat of Fawkner in 1925, although she withdrew from the race prior to polling day.