Sir John William Taverner (20 November 1853 – 17 December 1923) was a politician of the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

Early life and career

Taverner was educated at Scots Grammar School, Williamstown, and worked his first jobs, cutting thistles, holding a surveyor's chain, and drove for

Cobb & Co Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses. The first was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners. The name Cobb & Co grew to great prominence in the late 19th ...

. He went on to be a senior partner at two firms and the principal of a stock and station agents company. He married his wife, Elizabeth Ann Bassett Luxton, on 23 May 1879, in

Kerang Kerang is a rural town on the Loddon River in northern Victoria in Australia. It is the commercial centre to an irrigation district based on livestock, horticulture, lucerne and grain. It is located north-west of Melbourne on the Murray V ...

Reference list

Ministers for Agriculture (Victoria) 1853 births 1923 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Ministers for Health (Victoria) People from the Colony of Victoria Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Ministers for Public Works (Victoria) {{Australia-politician-stub