John Henry Church (8 April 1859 – 7 August 1937) was an Australian pastoralist and politician who was a Nationalist member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1932 to 1933, representing the seat of Roebourne.
Church worked for a period as a jackaroo, including at Chirritta and Hamersley Stations, and was also involved in the emerging pearling and mining industries.
[1] Early the following year, Church was convicted of assaulting one of his Aboriginal employees with a stockwhip, and fined one shilling by the local magistrate.
[1] In 1918, he and three brothers (Thomas, Percy, and Arthur Stove) sublet Cooya Pooya Station, under the name of the Harding River Pastoral Company.
[4] Church was involved in the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australian from its inception in 1907, and served as its president for a period.