John Henry Kessell (1870 - 15 November 1933) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
He was educated in Bathurst and was a proprietor of the Gladstone Observer newspaper and the chairman director of the Mt.
Morgan Co.[1] He married Sarah Rosetta Watt on 2 August 1905 in Brisbane and together had one daughter.
Kessell died at the Lewisham Private Hospital,[2] New South Wales, and his funeral proceeded from the Ashfield Methodist Church to the Field of Mars Cemetery.
[3] Kessell, representing the Ministerialists, contested the seat of Port Curtis at the 1912 state election but lost by two votes to Edward Breslin.