John Taverner

Sir John William Taverner (November 20, 1853 – December 17, 1923) was a politician of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life and career Taverner was educated at Scots Grammar School, Williamstown, and worked his first jobs, cutting thistles, holding a surveyor's chain, and drove for Cobb & Co. He went on to be a senior partner at two firms and the principal of a stock and station agents company. He married his wife, Elizabeth Ann Bassett Luxton, on May 23, 1879 in Kerang. Reference list