Sir John William Taverner KCMG (20 November 1853 – 17 December 1923) was a politician of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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.

[2] He married his wife, Elizabeth Ann Bassett Luxton, on 23 May 1879, in Kerang.

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