John Hargreaves | |
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Member of the
Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook | |
In office 27 Aug 1904 – 19 Jan 1907 | |
Preceded by | John Hamilton |
Succeeded by | Henry Douglas |
Personal details | |
Born | John Henry Hargreaves 1839 Gravesend, Kent, England |
Died | 19 January 1907 (aged 68) Cooktown, Queensland, Australia |
Resting place | Lost at sea |
Political party | Ministerialist |
Spouse | Mahala Gee (m.1875 d.1905) |
Occupation | Builder |
John Henry Hargreaves (1839 - 19 January 1907) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
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]
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]