Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from the elections of 26 August – 26 September 1859 to the elections of 2 – 19 August 1861.^[1]

The Assembly was created in 1856. The following districts were abolished by the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858, taking effect at the 1859 elections: Alberton, Anglesey, Castlemaine Boroughs, Colac, Dundas and Follett (renamed to Dundas), Evelyn and Mornington, Geelong, Gippsland, Loddon, Melbourne, North Grant, North Grenville, Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville, South Melbourne and Talbot.^[2]

The following districts were created in 1859: Crowlands, Geelong East, Geelong West, Avoca, Dalhousie, North Gippsland, Polwarth and South Grenville, Sandridge, South Gippsland, Ararat, Castlemaine, Creswick, East Bourke Boroughs, Emerald Hill, Maldon, Mandurang, Maryborough, Ripon and Hampden, West Melbourne, Ballaarat East, Ballaarat West, East Melbourne, Grenville, North Melbourne, Gippsland North, Mornington, Dundas (renamed from Dundas and Follett) and Evelyn.^[2]

Victorian Legislative Assembly districts, 1859-1877

Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.

Name	Electorate	Term in Office
Robert S. H. Anderson	Emerald Hill	1858–1864
	West Bourke	1859–1861
Butler Cole Aspinall ^[a]	Castlemaine	1856–1864; 1866–1870
John Bailey	Ballaarat West	1859–1861
George Elliott Barton	North Melbourne	1859–1861
George Brodie ^[b]	Mandurang	1859–1861
John Henry Brooke	Geelong West	1856–1864
Robert Bennett	East Bourke	1856–1857; 1859–1864
	West Melbourne	1859–1861
	Mandurang	1859–1861; 1864–1865
	South Grant	1859–1861; 1868–1870
	Ballaarat East	1859–1864
James Cowie ^[c]	Geelong East	1859–1860
Charles Don	Collingwood	1859–1864
Charles Gavan Duffy	Villiers and Heytesbury	1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
Charles Ebden ^[d]	Brighton	1857–1861
Thomas Embling	Collingwood	1856–1861; 1866–1867
George Samuel Evans	Avoca	1856–1864
John Everard ^[e]	Rodney	1858–1859; 1861; 1864; 1868–1871; 1874
	Wimmera	1859–1861
James Francis	Richmond	1859–1874; 1878–1884
	Creswick	1859–1870
	Grenville	1859–1862
James Macpherson Grant	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
	Kyneton Boroughs	1859–1861
George Harker ^[f]	Maldon	1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874
James Harrison ^[g]	Geelong West	1858–1860
Richard Heales	East Bourke Boroughs	1857–1864
	Sandhurst	1859–1861
Edward Henty	Normanby	1856–1861
John Hood	Belfast	1859–1864
George Horne ^[h]	Warrnambool	1856–1861
	Crowlands	1859–1865
	Sandhurst	1859–1861; 1862–1865
John Humffray	Ballaarat East	1856–1864; 1868–1871
^[i]	East Melbourne	1859–1861
Richard D. Ireland ^[j]	Maryborough	1857–1864; 1866–1867
	North Gippsland	1857–1861; 1862–1864
James Johnston	St Kilda	1859–1864
^[k]	Ovens	1859–1860
John Charles King ^[l]	Evelyn	1859
	West Bourke	1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Peter Lalor	South Grant	1856–1871; 1874–1889
	West Melbourne	1859–1864
	Grenville	1859–1861; 1874–1877
William Lyall	Mornington	1859–1861
John Macadam ^[m]	Castlemaine	1859–1861; 1861–1864
James Macintosh	East Bourke	1859–1861
James McCulloch	East Melbourne	1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Donald Norman McLeod ^[n]	Portland	1859–1860
Angus McMillan ^[o]	South Gippsland	1859–1860
Archibald Michie	St Kilda	1856–1861; 1863–1865; 1870–1871
William Mollison	Dundas	1858–1858; 1859–1864
Francis Murphy	Murray Boroughs	1856–1865; 1866–1871
John Myles	South Grant	1856–1861
Hibbert Newton	South Bourke	1859–1861
William Nicholson	Sandridge	1859–1864
	Ararat	1859–1861; 1877–1880; 1880–1881
John O'Shanassy	Kilmore	1856–1865; 1877–1883
Patrick Phelan ^[p]	West Bourke	1856–1860
	Maryborough	1859–1861
Vincent Pyke	Castlemaine	1856–1857; 1859–1862
	The Murray	1859–1862
	Villiers and Heytesbury	1859–1861
	Ballaarat West	1859–1861
James Service	Ripon and Hampden	1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
	North Melbourne	1859–1864
John Smith	Creswick	1856–1861
Louis Smith	South Bourke	1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880; 1880–1883; 1886–1894
Peter Snodgrass	Dalhousie	1856–1867
George Milner Stephen	Collingwood	1859–1861
Alexander Thomson	Geelong East	1857–1859; 1859–1861
George Frederic Verdon	Williamstown	1859–1868
Joseph Wilkie	Polwarth & South Grenville	1857–1861
John Wood	Ovens	1857–1861; 1861–1864
John Woods	Crowlands	1859–1864; 1871–1892
Alfred Woolley	Richmond	1859–1861

^a Aspinall resigned September 1860, replaced by James Chapman in a November 1860 by-election

^b Brodie resigned in May 1861, replaced by in a May 1861 by-election

^c Cowie resigned in January 1860, replaced by Augustus Greeves in a February 1860 by-election

^d Ebden resigned in May 1861, replaced by George Higinbotham in a May 1861 by-election

^e Everard left Parliament in December 1859, replaced by Wilson Gray in a January 1860 by-election

^f Harker resigned in March 1860, replaced by in a March 1860 by-election

^g Harrison resigned September 1860, replaced by in a November 1860 by-election

^h Horne resigned February 1861, replaced by in a March 1861 by-election

ⁱ Hunter left Parliament in July 1861, replaced by Graham Berry in a July 1861 by-election

^j Ireland lost the December 1860 by-election after being appointed Attorney-General,^[3] replaced by Nathaniel Levi sworn in January 1861^[4]

^k Keefer resigned in March 1860, replaced by in a March 1860 by-election

^l King resigned November 1859, replaced by in a January 1860 by-election. Bell resigned in March 1860, replaced by in a March 1860 by-election

^m Macadam left Parliament in May 1861, replaced by (May to July 1861)

ⁿ McLeod resigned in September 1860, replaced by William Haines in a November 1860 by-election

^o McMillan resigned November 1860, replaced by George Hedley in a January 1861 by-election

^p Phelan's election was declared void in January 1860, replaced by John Carre Riddell in a February 1860 by-election

References[]

^ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
^ "Mr. Ireland's Defeat". Bendigo Advertiser. 13 December 1860.
^ "The Victorian Parliament". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. 4 January 1861.

Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
"Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

[1] "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

[1858Act-2] "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

[3] "Mr. Ireland's Defeat". Bendigo Advertiser. 13 December 1860.

[4] "The Victorian Parliament". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. 4 January 1861.

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Legislative Council	1851–1853 1853–1856 1856–1858 1858–1860 1860–1862 1862–1864 1864–1866 1866–1868 1868–1870 1870–1872 1872–1874 1874–1876 1876–1878 1878–1880 1880–1882 1882–1884 1884–1886 1886–1888 1888–1890 1890–1892 1892–1895 1895–1896 1896–1898 1898–1900 1900–1901 1901–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1910 1910–1913 1913–1916 1916–1919 1919–1922 1922–1925 1925–1928 1928–1931 1931–1934 1934–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1946 1946–1949 1949–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022