John Kessell | |
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Member of the
Queensland Legislative Assembly for Port Curtis | |
In office 26 October 1912 – 22 May 1915 | |
Preceded by | Edward Breslin |
Succeeded by | George Carter |
Personal details | |
Born | John Henry Kessell 1870 Kadina, South Australia, Australia |
Died | 15 November 1933 (aged 62-63) Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia |
Resting place | Field of Mars Cemetery |
Political party | Ministerialist |
Spouse | Sarah Rosetta Watt (m.1905) |
Occupation | Journalist |
John Henry Kessell (1870 - 15 November 1933) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
Kessell was born at Kadina, South Australia, the son of John Kessell and his wife Elizabeth (née Williams). He was educated in Bathurst and was a proprietor of the Gladstone Observer newspaper and the chairman director of the Mt. Morgan Co. [1]
He married Sarah Rosetta Watt on 2 August 1905 in Brisbane and together had one daughter. Kessell died at the Lewisham Private Hospital, [2] New South Wales, and his funeral proceeded from the Ashfield Methodist Church to the Field of Mars Cemetery. [3]
Kessell, representing the Ministerialists, contested the seat of Port Curtis at the 1912 state election but lost by two votes to Edward Breslin. [4] The election of Breslin was later declared null and void by Justice Charles Chubb, the elections judge of the Queensland Supreme Court [5] and Kessell won the resulting by-election in October 1912. [4] At the 1915 state election he lost the seat to George Carter. [6]
He was president of the Australian Provincial Press Association and president of the Queensland Country Press Association. [1]