John Henry Hargreaves (1839 - 19 January 1907) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Hargreaves was born in

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, the son of John Henry Hargreaves Snr. and his wife Charlotte (née Furner). He arrived in Queensland for a goldfields expedition and then established a timber and building business in

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around 1878. On 26 April 1875 he married Mahala Gee (died 1905)Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 15 May 2016. in Townsville and together had four sons and three daughters. He drowned on the government-owned ketch, the ''Pilot'', which went missing during the 1907 Cooktown cyclone. His body was not recovered but a memorial to him is at the

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.Inscription for John Henry Hargreaves
— Australian Cemeteries Index. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

Public career

At the

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, Hargreaves won the seat of

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for the Ministerialists, defeating the

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candidate, Mr Le Vaux by two votes. As it was only four months before the

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when he died, no by-election was held. Hargreaves had previously been a councilor on the Shire of Cook and was its Mayor from 1901 until 1904.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hargreaves, John Henry Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1839 births 1907 deaths Deaths by drowning in Australia 19th-century Australian politicians