John Hargreaves (Queensland politician)
John Henry Hargreaves 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. 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. He drowned on the government-owned ketch, the Pilot, which went missing during the 1907 Cooktown cyclone. His body was not recovered but a memorial to him is at the Cooktown Cemetery.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.
