Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1898–1901

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 18th parliament of New South Wales held their seats between 1898 and 1901. They were elected at the 1898 colonial election on 27 July 1898.^[1]^[2] The Speaker was Sir Joseph Abbott until 12 June 1900 and then William McCourt.^[3]

Name		Electorate	Term in office
Sir Joseph Abbott	National Federal	Wentworth	1880–1901
William Affleck	Free Trade	Yass	1894–1904
George Anderson	Free Trade	Waterloo	1894–1904
William Archer	Ind. Free Trade	Burwood	1898–1904
James Ashton	Free Trade	Goulburn	1894–1907
John Barnes	National Federal	Gundagai	1889–1904
Edmund Barton ^{1, 5}	National Federal	Hastings and Macleay	1879–1887, 1891–1894, 1898–1900
Walter Bennett	Independent Federalist	Durham	1898–1907, 1917–1934
Thomas Brown	Labour	Condoublin	1894–1901, 1913–1917
James Brunker	Free Trade	East Maitland	1880–1904
Frank Byrne	Free Trade	Hay	1898–1904
Alexander Campbell	National Federal	Kiama	1894–1904
Archibald Campbell	Free Trade	Illawarra	1891–1903
John Cann	Labour	Broken Hill	1891–1916
James Carroll	National Federal	Lachlan	1894–1904
Joseph Carruthers	Free Trade	St George	1887–1908
John Chanter	National Federal	Deniliquin	1885–1901
Austin Chapman	National Federal	Braidwood	1891–1901
Henry Chapman	Free Trade ^[b]	Sydney-Fitzroy	1894–1895, 1898–1901
Edward Clark	Free Trade ^[b]	St Leonards	1891–1904, 1907–1910
Francis Clarke ^{1, 5}	National Federal	Hastings and Macleay	1893–11898, 1900–1901
Henry Clarke	National Federal	Bega	1869–1894, 1895–1904
Thomas Clarke	Free Trade	Darlington	1898–1901
John Cohen	National Federal	Petersham	1898–1919
Joseph Cook	Free Trade	Hartley	1891–1901
Henry Copeland ⁶	National Federal	Sydney-Phillip	1877–1883, 1883–1895, 1895–1900
Francis Cotton	Free Trade ^[b]	Newtown-Camperdown	1891–1901
Paddy Crick	National Federal	West Macquarie	1889–1906
George Cruickshank	National Federal	Inverell	1889–1901
John Dacey	Labour	Botany	1895–1912
David Davis	Independent Federalist	Shoalhaven	1898–1901
William Davis ¹¹	National Federal	Bourke	1889–1891, 1898–1904
William Dick	Free Trade	Newcastle East	1894–1907
Charles Dight	National Federal	Singleton	1898–1904
Robert Donaldson	Independent	Tumut	1898–1913
Alfred Edden	Labour	Kahibah	1891–1920
Thomas Ewing	National Federal	Lismore	1885–1901
John Fegan	Free Trade / Protectionist ^[b]	Wickham	1891–1907, 1920–1922
William Ferguson	Labour	Sturt	1894–1904
William Ferris ²	Independent Federalist	Parramatta	1898–1901
Robert Fitzgerald	National Federal	Robertson	1885–1901
John Fitzpatrick	Free Trade ^[b]	Rylstone	1895–1904, 1907–1930
Thomas Fitzpatrick	National Federal	Murrumbidgee	1894–1904
John Garland	Free Trade	Woollahra	1898–1901, 1903–1904
John Gillies	Free Trade ^[b]	West Maitland	1891–1911
Thomas Goodwin	National Federal	Gunnedah	1887–1888, 1895–1901
James Gormly	National Federal	Wagga Wagga	1885–1904
James Graham	Free Trade	Sydney-Belmore	1894–1901, 1907–1910
Arthur Griffith	Labour	Waratah	1894–1903, 1904–1920
Thomas Griffith	National Federal	Albury	1898–1904
Sir Matthew Harris	Free Trade	Sydney-Denison	1894–1901
Thomas Hassall	National Federal	Moree	1886–1901
John Hawthorne	Free Trade	Leichhardt	1885–1891, 1894–1904
James Hayes	National Federal	Murray	1885–1904
John Haynes	Free Trade ^[b]	Wellington	1887–1904, 1915–1917
James Hogue	Free Trade	Glebe	1894–1910
William Holman	Labour	Grenfell	1898–1920
George Howarth	Free Trade	Willoughby	1895–1903
Billy Hughes	Labour	Sydney-Lang	1894–1901
William Hurley	National Federal	Macquarie	1895–1904
Thomas Jessep	Free Trade	Waverley	1896–1907
John Kidd	National Federal	Camden	1880–1882, 1885–1887, 1889–1904
Sydney Law	Labour	Balmain South	1894–1907
Charles Lee	Free Trade	Tenterfield	1884–1920
Samuel Lees	Free Trade	Nepean	1887–1895, 1898–1901
Robert Levien	Independent	Quirindi	1880–1889, 1889–1913
Sir William Lyne	National Federal	Hume	1880–1901
Hugh Macdonald	Labour	Castlereagh	1894–1906
Kenneth Mackay ⁴	National Federal	Boorowa	1895–1899
Michael MacMahon ¹²	Protectionist	Uralla-Walcha	1900–1904
William Mahony	Free Trade	Annandale	1894–1910
William McCourt	Free Trade	Bowral	1882–1885, 1887–1913
John McFarlane	National Federal	Clarence	1887–1915
James McGowen	Labour	Redfern	1891–1917
John McLaughlin	Independent	Raleigh	1880–1885, 1895–1901
Gordon McLaurin ¹⁴	Protectionist	Hume	1901–1913
Francis McLean	Free Trade	Marrickville	1894–1901
Richard Meagher	Independent	Tweed	1895, 1898–1904, 1907–1917
William Millard	Free Trade	Moruya	1894–1920, 1920–1921
Gus Miller	National Federal	Monaro	1889–1918
Edmund Molesworth	Free Trade	Newtown-Erskine	1889–1901
Samuel Moore	Free Trade	Bingara	1885–1910
William Morgan	Free Trade	Hawkesbury	1894–1901
John Neild	Free Trade	Paddington	1885–1889, 1891–1894, 1895–1901
Arthur Nelson	National Federal	Sydney-Flinders	1895–1904
Harry Newman	Free Trade	Orange	1891–1904
John Nicholson	Free Trade ^[b]	Woronora	1891–1917
Niels Nielsen ⁴	Labour	Boorowa	1899–1913
John Nobbs	Free Trade	Granville	1888–1893, 1898–1913
John Norton ³	Independent	Northumberland	1898–1906, 1907–1910
Daniel O'Connor ⁶	Protectionist	Sydney-Phillip	1877–1891, 1900–1904
Broughton O'Conor	National Federal	Sherbrooke	1898–1907
Edward O'Sullivan	National Federal	Queanbeyan	1885–1910
Varney Parkes ⁷	Free Trade	Canterbury	1885–1888, 1891–1900, 1907–1913
John Perry	National Federal	Ballina	1889–1920
Simeon Phillips	Free Trade	Dubbo	1895–1904
William Piddington ^{8, 12}	National Federal	Uralla-Walcha	1894–1900
Richard Price	National Federal	Gloucester	1894–1904, 1907–1922
Robert Pyers	National Federal	Richmond	1894–1904
Patrick Quinn	National Federal	Sydney-Bligh	1898–1904
George Reid	Free Trade	Sydney-King	1880–1884, 1885–1901
Joseph Reymond	National Federal	Ashburnham	1895–1904
Edwin Richards	National Federal	Mudgee	1894–1904
William Rigg	Free Trade	Newtown-St Peters	1894–1901
Thomas Rose	National Federal	Argyle	1891–1904
Andrew Ross	National Federal	Molong	1880–1904
Hugh Ross	Labour	Narrabri	1898–1901
William Sawers	National Federal	Tamworth	1885–1886, 1898–1901
John See	National Federal	Grafton	1880–1904
Richard Sleath	Labour	Wilcannia	1894–1904
Samuel Smith	Labour	Sydney-Pyrmont	1898–1902
Sydney Smith ^{7, 10}	Free Trade	Canterbury	1882–1898, 1900
William Spence	Labour	Cobar	1898–1901
Wilfred Spruson	National Federal	Sydney-Gipps	1898–1901
Richard Stevenson ³	National Federal	Northumberland	1886–1895, 1898–1899
David Storey	Free Trade	Randwick	1894–1920
Francis Suttor ⁹	National Federal	Bathurst	1875–1887, 1891–1894, 1898–1900
Thomas Taylor ¹⁰	Independent	Canterbury	1900–1901
Edward Terry	Independent Federalist	Ryde	1898–1901, 1904
Josiah Thomas	Labour	Alma	1894–1901
Dugald Thomson	National Federal	Warringah	1894–1901
James Thomson	Labour	Newcastle West	1895–1901
Thomas Waddell	National Federal	Cowra	1897–1917
David Watkins	Labour	Wallsend	1894–1901
Chris Watson	Labour	Young	1894–1901
Samuel Whiddon	Free Trade	Sydney-Cook	1894–1904
Bill Wilks	Free Trade	Balmain North	1894–1901
William Willis	National Federal	Barwon	1889–1904
Charles Wilson	National Federal	Armidale	1898–1901
Bernhard Wise ¹³	National Federal	Ashfield	1887–1889, 1891–1895, 1898–1900
Frederick Winchcombe ¹³	Free Trade	Ashfield	1900–1905
William Wood	National Federal	Eden-Bombala	1894–1913
Francis Wright	National Federal	Glen Innes	1882–1885, 1889–1903
James Young	Free Trade	Manning	1880–1901, 1904–1907
William Young ⁹	Protectionist	Bathurst	1900–1907

By-elections

Under the constitution, ministers were required to resign to recontest their seats in a by-election when appointed. These by-elections are only noted when the minister was defeated; in general, he was elected unopposed.^[5]

#	Electorate	Departing Member		Reason for By-election	Date of By-election	Winner of By-election
1	Hastings and Macleay	Francis Clarke	National Federal	Resigned to give Barton a seat	23 September 1898	Edmund Barton	National Federal
2	Parramatta	William Ferris	Independent Federalist	Election declared void on appeal	26 October 1898	William Ferris	Protectionist
3	Northumberland	Richard Stevenson	National Federal	Death	20 June 1899	John Norton	Independent
4	Boorowa	Kenneth Mackay	Protectionist	Appointed to Legislative Council	23 September 1899	Niels Nielsen	Labour
5	Hastings and Macleay	Edmund Barton	Protectionist	Resigned to take Constitution to London	1 March 1900	Francis Clarke	Protectionist
6	Sydney-Phillip	Henry Copeland	Protectionist	accepted post as Agent-General in London	7 April 1900	Daniel O'Connor	Protectionist
7	Canterbury	Varney Parkes	Free Trade	Resignation	9 June 1900	Sydney Smith	Free Trade
8	Uralla-Walcha	William Piddington	Protectionist	Resignation due to insolvency	9 June 1900	William Piddington	Protectionist
9	Bathurst	Francis Suttor	Protectionist	Appointed to Legislative Council	25 June 1900	William Young	Protectionist
10	Canterbury	Sydney Smith	Free Trade	By-election result voided on appeal	28 July 1900	Thomas Taylor	Independent
11	Bourke	William Davis	Protectionist	Resignation due to insolvency	15 September 1900	William Davis	Protectionist
12	Uralla-Walcha	William Piddington	Protectionist	Death	27 October 1900	Michael MacMahon	Protectionist
13	Ashfield	Bernhard Wise	Protectionist	Appointed to Legislative Council	10 November 1900	Frederick Winchcombe	Free Trade
14	Hume	William Lyne	Protectionist	Successfully contested Hume at 1901 Federal election	17 April 1901	Gordon McLaurin	Protectionist

Notes[]

^ Members of the Protectionist Party under the leadership of Barton and Lyne campaigned as the National Federal Party at the 1898 colonial election. After the success of the 2nd Federal Referendum on 20 June 1899, they resumed the Protectionist name. The party designation is the designation given at the time of election but party affiliations were particularly flexible during the pre-federation period in the New South Wales Parliament (see Antony Green below).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h While nominally supporters of the Free Trade Party, these members supported a no confidence motion which brought about the defeat of the Reid government.^[4]

References[]

^ Green, Antony. "1898 Elected members". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
^ "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
^ "Motion of censure". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). New South Wales: Legislative Assembly. 7 September 1899. p. 1308.
^ Green, Antony. "Results of 1898–1901 by-elections". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

[4] Members of the Protectionist Party under the leadership of Barton and Lyne campaigned as the National Federal Party at the 1898 colonial election. After the success of the 2nd Federal Referendum on 20 June 1899, they resumed the Protectionist name. The party designation is the designation given at the time of election but party affiliations were particularly flexible during the pre-federation period in the New South Wales Parliament (see Antony Green below).

[No_confidence-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h While nominally supporters of the Free Trade Party, these members supported a no confidence motion which brought about the defeat of the Reid government.^[4]

[Green_district-1] Green, Antony. "1898 Elected members". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

[2] "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[3] "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

[6] "Motion of censure". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). New South Wales: Legislative Assembly. 7 September 1899. p. 1308.

[by-elections-7] Green, Antony. "Results of 1898–1901 by-elections". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1898–1901

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