John Fletcher (Queensland politician)
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = John Fletcher
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|OBE}}
|image =
|caption =
| constituency_AM1 = Port Curtis
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 9 October 1920
| term_end1 = 12 May 1923
| predecessor1 = George Carter
| successor1 = George Carter
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1884|1|25}}
|birth_place = Sydney, Australia
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1965|3|13|1884|1|25}}
|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace =
|birthname = John William Fletcher
|nationality = Australian
|party = National
|otherparty =
|spouse = Evelyn Barbara de Winton (m. 1910 d. 1931), Amy Muriel Cribb (m. 1934)
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Cricketer, Sheep grazier, businessman
| relations =
}}
John William Fletcher OBE (25 January 1884 – 13 March 1965)[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fletcher-john-william-6193 Fletcher, John William (1884–1965)] – Australian Dictionary of Biography Retrieved 24 January 2015. was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Early life
John William Fletcher was born to Ann Marian Fletcher nee Clarke, an embroiderer who made the velvet bag to hold The Ashes urn, and John Walter Fletcher, a teacher, cricketer, and police magistrate, who is known as the father of football in Australia, as he was instrumental in introducing soccer to the country. Fletcher's older sister was Nora Kathleen Fletcher, a nurse who served in World War I as the principal matron of the British Red Cross for France and Belgium, and another sister Judith Fletcher, was a photographer in Sydney.{{Cite web |last=Rodgers |first=James |date=2017-03-27 |title=You Might Not Remember... J W Fletcher |url=https://www.sydneyuniversitycricket.com.au/current-news/2017/3/27/you-might-not-remember-j-w-fletcher |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Sydney Uni Cricket |language=en-AU}}
Politics
Fletcher was the National member for Port Curtis in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1920 to 1923.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=872083429|accessdate= 24 January 2015}}
In 1931, Fletcher was chairman of the Booringa Shire Council.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70289546 |title=MRS. J. W. FLETCHER. |newspaper=The Central Queensland Herald |location=Rockhampton, Qld. |date=3 December 1931 |accessdate=29 April 2014 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Cricketing career
Fletcher played three games of first-class cricket for Queensland in 1909–1910. He scored 97 runs at an average of 16.16 and did not take any wickets.[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5305.html John Fletcher] – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
References
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Category:National Party (Queensland, 1917) members of the Parliament of Queensland
Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly