Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1868–1871
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 21 January; 7, 20 February 1868 to the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871.[1] Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.
- Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
Name | Electorate | Term in Office |
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Butler Cole Aspinall [a] | St Kilda | 1856–1864; 1866–1870 |
William Baillie [b] | Castlemaine | 1866–1870 |
James Balfour [c] | East Bourke | 1866–1868 |
William Bates | Collingwood | 1868–1874 |
William Bayles | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1864–1880 |
Samuel Bindon [d] | Castlemaine | 1864–1868 |
David Blair | Crowlands | 1856–1859; 1868–1871 |
Lawrence Bourke | Kilmore | 1868–1874 |
Robert Bowman [e] | Maryborough | 1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893 |
Robert Burrowes | Sandhurst | 1866–1877; 1880–1893 |
John Burtt | North Melbourne | 1864–1874 |
James Butters | Portland | 1868–1869; 1869–1871 |
Robert Byrne [f] | Crowlands | 1866–1869 |
James Gattie Carr [g] | Geelong West | 1859–1861; 1868–1870 |
James Casey | Mandurang | 1861–1862; 1863–1880 |
Edward Cohen | East Melbourne | 1861–1865; 1868–1877 |
Joseph Henry Connor | Polwarth & South Grenville | 1864–1871; 1874–1877; 1882–1886 |
Edward Cope | East Bourke Boroughs | 1864–1871 |
Thomas Cope | Normanby | 1868–1880 |
George Cunningham | South Grant | 1864–1874; 1881–1886 |
Benjamin George Davies | Avoca | 1861–1880 |
Charles Duffy | Dalhousie | 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880 |
Charles Dyte | Ballaarat East | 1864–1871 |
John Everard | Collingwood | 1858–1859; 1861; 1864; 1868–1871; 1874 |
James Farrell | Castlemaine | 1866–1878 |
Thomas Fellows | St Kilda | 1856–1858; 1868–1872 |
Nicholas Foott [h] | Geelong West | 1860–1868 |
James Francis | Richmond | 1859–1874; 1878–1884 |
William Frazer [i] | Creswick | 1859–1870 |
Duncan Gillies [j] | Ballaarat West | 1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1894; 1897–1903 |
James Macpherson Grant [k] | Avoca | 1856–1870; 1871–1885 |
Patrick Hanna | Murray Boroughs | 1866–1877 |
John Harbison | North Melbourne | 1864–1865; 1866–1871 |
James Harcourt | Richmond | 1868–1871 |
George Higinbotham | Brighton | 1861–1861; 1862–1871; 1873–1876 |
John Humffray | Ballaarat East | 1856–1864; 1868–1871 |
George Kerferd | Ovens | 1864–1886 |
Charles Kernot | Geelong East | 1868–1871; 1876–1880; 1880–1882 |
Mark Last King | West Bourke | 1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879 |
Peter Lalor | South Grant | 1856–1871; 1874–1889 |
Edward Langton | West Melbourne | 1866–1877 |
Francis Longmore | Ripon & Hampden | 1864–1883; 1894–1897 |
James MacBain | Wimmera | 1864–1880 |
Matthew McCaw [l] | East Bourke | 1866–1870 |
Thomas McCombie [m] | South Gippsland | 1868–1869 |
James McCulloch | Mornington | 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878 |
Morgan McDonnell [n] | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1868–1870 |
John MacGregor | Rodney | 1862–1874 |
Angus Mackay | Sandhurst | 1868–1880; 1883–1886 |
James McKean | Maryborough | 1866–1871; 1875–1876; 1880–1883 |
Martin McKenna | Kyneton Boroughs | 1868–1874 |
William McLellan | Ararat | 1859–1877; 1883–1897 |
Charles MacMahon | West Melbourne | 1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886 |
John MacPherson | Dundas | 1864–1865; 1866–1878 |
Thomas Mason | Williamstown | 1868–1871 |
William Miller | Creswick | 1868–1871 |
Francis Murphy | Grenville | 1856–1865; 1866–1871 |
Michael O'Grady [o] | South Bourke | 1861–1868; 1870–1876 |
William Plummer | Warrnambool | 1866–1874 |
Isaac Reeves [p] | Collingwood | 1866–1869 |
John Richardson | Geelong East | 1861–1876 |
John Carre Riddell | West Bourke | 1860–1877 |
Thomas Russell | Grenville | 1868–1873 |
George Paton Smith | South Bourke | 1866–1871; 1874–1877 |
George Verney Smith | Ovens | 1864–1877 |
John Smith | West Bourke | 1856–1879 |
Frederick Smyth | North Gippsland | 1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880 |
William Stutt | South Grant | 1867–1871 |
James Forester Sullivan | Mandurang | 1861–1871; 1874–1876 |
David Thomas | Sandridge | 1868–1876 |
William Vale [q] | Ballaarat West | 1864–1869; 1869–1874; 1880–1881 |
George Frederic Verdon [r] | Emerald Hill | 1859–1868 |
Frederick Walsh | East Melbourne | 1868–1874; 1881–1883 |
William Watkins | Evelyn | 1866–1874 |
William Williams | Maldon | 1867–1874 |
William Wilson | Ararat | 1866–1874; 1881–1883 |
William Witt | The Murray | 1868–1872; 1874–1877 |
Henry Wrixon | Belfast | 1868–1877; 1880–1894 |
- [a] Aspinall resigned c. October 1870, replaced by James Stephen in an October 1870 by-election.
- [b] Baillie left parliament in November 1870, replaced by James Patterson in a December 1870 by-election.
- [c] Balfour resigned August 1868, replaced by William Lobb in a September by-election
- [d] Bindon resigned in October 1868, replaced by Richard Kitto in a by-election the same month.[2]
- [e] Bowman resigned in March 1870, replaced by Duncan Gillies in a by-election the same month.
- [f] Byrne resigned October 1869, replaced by George Rolfe in a by-election the same month.
- [g] Carr resigned May 1870, replaced by Robert de Bruce Johnstone in May 1870.[3]
- [h] Foott died 24 September 1868, replaced by Graham Berry in October 1868.[4]
- [i] Frazer died 13 December 1870, replaced by James Syme Stewart in January 1871.
- [j] Gillies resigned in May 1868, replaced by Charles Jones in a by-election the same month.
- [k] Grant left Parliament in July 1870, replaced by Peter Finn who was sworn-in October 1870.
- [l] McCaw resigned in September 1870, replaced by Robert Ramsay in October 1870.
- [m] McCombie resigned in March 1869, replaced by George Macartney in a by-election the same month.
- [n] McDonnell retired in April 1870, replaced by Michael O'Grady who was elected unopposed in July 1870.[5]
- [o] O'Grady became Minister for Public Works which caused a by-election in May 1868; won by John Branscombe Crews.[6]
- [p] Reeves lost a by-election in October 1869 after becoming a minister, replaced by William Vale.
- [q] Vale resigned in April 1869, replaced by John James in a May 1869 by-election.[7]
- [r] Verdon resigned May 1868 replaced by John Whiteman in a June 1868 by-election
- Francis Murphy was Speaker, Frederick Smyth was Chairman of Committees.
References
- ^ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Telegraphic Despatches". The Argus. Melbourne. 31 October 1868. p. 5.
- ^ "Wednesday, May 11, 1870". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 May 1870. p. 4.
- ^ "Geelong West Election". The Ballarat Star. 17 October 1868. p. 2.
- ^ "Local". Kilmore Free Press. 14 July 1870. p. 2.
- ^ "The Ministerial Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 May 1868. p. 5.
- ^ "Ballarat West Election". The Australasian. Melbourne. 29 May 1869. p. 21.
- Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- Victorian Hansard, Session 1868 (PDF). Vol. 6. John Ferres, Melb. 1868.
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