John Percival (politician)

John Whitehead Percival (27 September 1870 – 1 February 1942) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Huddersfield in Yorkshire to brass moulder William Percival and Hannah Whitehead. He worked as a newspaper manager, arriving in New South Wales around 1894. On 18 October 1905 he married Emily Amelia Cartrell, with whom he had four children. He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1921 as a Labor member. After 1931 he supported the United Australia Party. He left the Council in 1934 when it became indirectly elected. Percival died at Randwick in 1942.[1]