John Harris (New South Wales politician)

John Harris (10 August 1838 – 7 November 1911) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

He was born in Maghera in County Londonderry to John Harris and Nancy Ann McKee. His family migrated to Sydney in 1842. He attended the University of Sydney, but left before graduating to manage the property he had inherited from his father. In 1869 he married Lizzie Henrietta Dingle Page; they had eight children. He was a Sydney City Councillor from 1873 to 1883, from 1885 to 1900 and from 1902 to 1911, serving as Mayor from 1881 to 1883 and from 1888 to 1889. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1880. Re-elected for South Sydney in 1882, he did not contest in 1885. Harris died at Ultimo in 1911.[1]