John Huxham

John Saunders Huxham (14 May 1861 – 4 August 1949) was an accountant and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life Huxham was born in Ivybridge, Devon, He was born Samuel John Chapman Huxham but changed his name to John Saunders Huxham later in life. Educated in London and beforehand at Ivybridge Dame School, which he later described as "harsh and desolate" where punishment consisted of "confinement in a dark cellar", he left school at age 12 to become a merchant seaman, which on occasions took him to Australia.

In 1908, the people of Queensland were back at the polls, and Huxham once again contested Brisbane South, this time successfully. He held the seat until 1909 when he was defeated at that year's state elections.

At the 1912 state election, Huxham contested the newly created seat of Buranda where he once again found himself opposed by William Stephens. Huxham defeated him by 2,210 votes to 1,747 to win the seat, holding it until 1924 when he retired from politics. His funeral proceeded from the Vulture Street Baptist church at South Brisbane to the South Brisbane Cemetery. His estate, valued for probate at £22,372, was used to establish the Helen Huxham Hostel for blind girls in memory of his second wife.