Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Josiah Thomas (28 April 1863 - 5 February 1933) was an Cornish Australian miner and politician. Thomas was born in Camborne, Cornwall, UK and went to Mexico as a child with his father and later worked in mines in Cornwall. He travelled to Australia in the mid-1880s and worked at the Barrier Range, near Broken Hill. He was appointed as a member of a royal commission on collieries in 1886 and worked as a mining captain and assayer in 1890. He married Henrietta Lee Ingleby in July 1889 and they subsequently had two sons and one daughter.