John Hargreaves

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

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 in Townsville and together had four sons and three daughters. His body was not recovered but a memorial to him is at the Cooktown Cemetery.

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. 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.