Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1870–1871

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This is a list of members of the 5th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1870 to 1871, as elected at the 1870 colonial elections held between 27 July 1870 and 15 September 1870 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).[1]

Name Electorate Term in office
Robert Travers Atkin East Moreton 1868–1869; 1870–1872
Joshua Peter Bell Northern Downs 1862–1879
John Bramston[1] Burnett 1871–1873
Benjamin Cribb Town of Ipswich 1861–1867; 1870–1873
Oscar de Satge Clermont 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882
George Edmondstone Town of Brisbane 1860–1867; 1869–1877
John Ferrett West Moreton 1860–1863; 1870–1873
Frederick Forbes West Moreton 1860–1863; 1865–1867;
1868–1873
Alexander Fyfe Rockhampton 1870–1873
William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901
Charles Robert Haly[1] Burnett 1860–1863; 1865–1867;
1869–1871; 1876–1878
John Handy Mitchell 1870–1871; 1872–1873
John Johnston Town of Ipswich 1870–1872
Henry Jordan East Moreton 1860; 1868–1871;
1883–1890
Henry Edward King Wide Bay 1870–1871; 1871–1873; 1874–1883
Charles Lilley Hamlet of Fortitude Valley 1860–1873
Arthur Macalister Eastern Downs 1860–1871; 1872–1876
Edward MacDevitt Kennedy 1870–1874
Thomas McIlwraith Warrego 1870–1871; 1873–1886;
1888–1896
William Miles Maranoa 1864–1873; 1874–1875;
1876–1887
Berkeley Basil Moreton Burnett 1870–1871; 1873–1875;
1883–1888
James Morgan Warwick 1870–1871; 1873–1878
Kevin O'Doherty Town of Brisbane 1867–1873
Arthur Hunter Palmer Port Curtis 1866–1881
Ratcliffe Pring Town of Brisbane 1860–1862; 1863–1866;
1867–1872; 1873–1874;
1878–1879
Robert Ramsay Western Downs 1867–1873
Charles Royds Leichhardt 1860–1864; 1868–1872
John Scott Leichhardt 1868, 1870–1888
Thomas Blacket Stephens Town of South Brisbane 1863–1875
John Malbon Thompson Town of Ipswich 1868–1881
George Thorn West Moreton 1867–1874; 1876–1878;
1879–1883; 1887–1888;
1893–1902
William Henry Walsh Maryborough 1865–1878
Edward Wienholt Western Downs 1870–1875

See also[]

  • Premier:
Arthur Hunter Palmer (1870–1874)

Notes[]

1 On 23 March 1871, Charles Haly, member for Burnett, resigned. John Bramston won the resulting by-election on 3 April 1871.

References[]

  1. ^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  • Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
  • Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)
  • Brisbane Courier variously over 1871–1873
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