John Hargreaves (Queensland politician)

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John Henry Hargreaves (1839 – 19 January 1907) was an English-born Australian builder and politician who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook from August 27, 1904, to January 19, 1907. He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, the son of John Henry Hargreaves Sr. and Charlotte Furner. He came to Queensland for a goldfields expedition and then started a timber and building business in Cooktown around 1878. On 26 April 1875 he married Mahala Gee (d. 1905); they had four sons and three daughters.

Hargreaves was a Shire of Cook councillor and served as mayor from 1901 to 1904. In the 1904 state election he won the Cook seat for the Ministerialists, defeating Labour candidate Le Vaux by two votes. He died in 1907, less than a year before the next election, so no by-election was held. He drowned when the government ketch Pilot disappeared during the 1907 Cooktown cyclone; his body was never recovered. A memorial to him stands in Cooktown Cemetery. He was 68 years old.