Thomas Colls

Thomas Colls (1822 – 2 March 1898) was a politician and hotelier in New South Wales.

Mr Thomas Colls MLA for Yass Plains

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.^[1] 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,^[2] re-elected in 1875.^[3] He continued to serve as an alderman until 1897.^[1]

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.^[4][5]

Colls died at Yass in 1898 (aged 75–76).^[6]