Thomas Jordan (30 April 1880 – 7 June 1945) was the mayor of Masterton from 1925 to 1944, and was a teacher and then lawyer.
They moved to Tawa (then called Tawa Flat) near Wellington where they lived on James Taylor's farm, then to a house near the Porirua Lunatic Asylum.
Jordan attended Tawa Flat School from 1886 to 1890, then Porirua School where he won a scholarship to Wellington College where he was dux in 1896.
[1][2] In World War II he was chairman of the National Patriotic Fund Council and then was a member of the National Patriotic Fund Board.
[3] In his younger days, he was a prominent cricketer and rugby footballer, being on the Wellington Ranfurly Shield team about 1905.