John Hargreaves (Queensland politician)

John Henry Hargreaves (1839 - 19 January 1907) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]

John Hargreaves
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Cook
In office
27 Aug 1904 – 19 Jan 1907
Preceded byJohn Hamilton
Succeeded byHenry Douglas
Personal details
Born
John Henry Hargreaves

1839
Gravesend, Kent, England
Died19 January 1907 (aged 68)
Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
Resting placeLost at sea
Political partyMinisterialist
Spouse(s)Mahala Gee (m.1875 d.1905)
OccupationBuilder

Biography

Hargreaves was born in Gravesend, Kent, 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 Cooktown around 1878.

On 26 April 1875 he married Mahala Gee[1] (died 1905)[2] in Townsville and together had four sons and three daughters.[1] He drowned on the government-owned ketch, the Pilot, which went missing during the 1907 Cooktown cyclone.[3] His body was not recovered but a memorial to him is at the Cooktown Cemetery.[4]

Public career

At the 1904 Queensland state election, Hargreaves won the seat of Cook for the Ministerialists, defeating the Labour candidate, Mr Le Vaux by two votes.[5] As it was only four months before the 1907 Queensland state election 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.[1]

References
  1. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  3. "RECENT COOKTOWN CYCLONE". The Brisbane Courier. LXIII (15, 304). Queensland, Australia. 30 January 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 15 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Inscription for John Henry Hargreaves — Australian Cemeteries Index. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  5. "COOK (1)". The Brisbane Courier. LXI (14, 552). Queensland, Australia. 2 September 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 15 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
John Hamilton		 Member for Cook
1904–1907		 Succeeded by
Henry Douglas
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