Background
Job was born in Waterloo, England in 1873, the youngest son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job (1837-1917). T.R. Job was the son of Thomas Bulley Job and Jessie Carson, the daughter of Sir William Carson.
Job was born in Waterloo, England in 1873, the youngest son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job (1837-1917). T.R. Job was the son of Thomas Bulley Job and Jessie Carson, the daughter of Sir William Carson.
Merchant Taylors" School, Crosby.
12 February 1873 – 6 September 1961) was an English-born businessman, politician, and economic unionist in the Colony of Newfoundland. Job"s mother was Agnes Beater Brown. Job had several siblings, including three older brothers, William Carson Job (1864-1943), Samuel Ernest Job (1865-1937), and Thomas Bulley Job (born 1872).
Job received his education at the Merchant Taylors" School, Crosby.
Afterwards, Job went to work in Liverpool for the Union Marine Insurance Company. Job went to work in Saint John"s at the family"s maritime mercantile business.
He settled permanently in Newfoundland in 1897 and two years later, he became a full partner in the family"s Saint John"s business, Job Brothers & Company and that in Liverpool, Job Brothers. Upon West.C. Job"s retirement in 1916, Job became managing director, and three years later its President, serving in that capacity for over 30 years, before retiring from management and becoming Chairman of the Board.
Job also had a political career.
He was the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention. Walter Stanley Monroe appointed Job in 1927 as a member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland and he served there until the council"s 1934 dissolution. In 1945, he became the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention.