Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1871–1874
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871 to the elections of 25 March; 9, 22 April 1874.[1] Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.
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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 |
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William Bates | Collingwood | 1868–1874 |
William Bayles | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1864–1880 |
Thomas Bent | Brighton | 1871–1894; 1900–1909 |
Graham Berry | Geelong West | 1861–1865; 1869–1886 |
Kilmore | 1868–1874 | |
Robert Burrowes | Sandhurst | 1866–1877; 1880–1893 |
North Melbourne | 1864–1874 | |
James Casey | Mandurang | 1861–1862; 1863–1880 |
William Champ [a] | East Bourke Boroughs | 1871–1873 |
Williamstown | 1871–1887 | |
Grenville | 1871–1877 | |
Edward Cohen | East Melbourne | 1861–1865; 1868–1877 |
Thomas Cope | Normanby | 1868–1880 |
South Bourke | 1858–1859; 1864–1865; 1868–1877 | |
South Grant | 1864–1867; 1868–1874; 1881–1886 | |
North Melbourne | 1871–1877 | |
Avoca | 1861–1880 | |
Charles Duffy | Dalhousie | 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880 |
Castlemaine | 1866–1878 | |
Thomas Fellows [b] | St Kilda | 1856–1858; 1868–1872 |
South Bourke | 1871–1874; 1877–1880 | |
James Francis | Richmond | 1859–1874; 1878–1884 |
Maryborough | 1871–1877 | |
Geelong East | 1871–1877 | |
Duncan Gillies | Maryborough | 1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1889 |
James Macpherson Grant | Avoca | 1856–1870; 1871–1885 |
Murray Boroughs | 1866–1877 | |
George Harker | Collingwood | 1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874 |
John Rout Hopkins | South Grant | 1864–1867; 1871–1877; 1892–1894 |
Ballarat East | 1869–1870; 1871–1886 | |
Geelong West | 1870–1881 | |
Ballarat West | 1871–1875; 1876–1877; 1879–1880 | |
George Kerferd | Ovens | 1864–1886 |
West Bourke | 1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879 | |
Edward Langton | West Melbourne | 1866–1867; 1868–1877 |
Jonas Levien | South Grant | 1871–1877; 1880–1906 |
East Bourke | 1868–1874 | |
Francis Longmore | Ripon & Hampden | 1864–1883; 1894–1897 |
James MacBain | Wimmera | 1864–1880 |
James McCulloch [c] | Mornington | 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878 |
John MacGregor | Rodney | 1862–1874 |
Angus Mackay | Sandhurst | 1868–1880; 1883–1886 |
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 |
Francis Mason | South Gippsland | 1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902 |
Mandurang | 1871–1880; 1883–1886 | |
Michael O'Grady | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1861–1868; 1870–1876 |
James Patterson | Castlemaine | 1870–1895 |
Creswick | 1871–1874 | |
Warrnambool | 1866–1874 | |
Robert Ramsay | East Bourke | 1870–1882 |
Geelong East | 1861–1876 | |
John Carre Riddell | West Bourke | 1860–1877 |
William Robertson | Polwarth & South Grenville | 1871–1874; 1880; 1881–1886 |
[d] | Grenville | 1868–1873 |
Ovens | 1864–1877 | |
John Smith | West Bourke | 1856–1879 |
Louis Smith | Richmond | 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880; 1880–1883; 1886–1894 |
William Collard Smith | Ballarat West | 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894 |
North Gippsland | 1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880 | |
Howard Spensley [e] | Portland | 1871–1873 |
James Stephen | St Kilda | 1870–1874 |
Creswick | 1871–1877; 1889 | |
Sandridge | 1868–1876 | |
Collingwood | 1864–1869; 1869–1874; 1880–1881 | |
Crowlands | 1871–1877 | |
East Melbourne | 1868–1874; 1881–1883 | |
Robert Walsh | Ballarat East | 1871–1874 |
Evelyn | 1866–1874 | |
Emerald Hill | 1866–1867; 1868–1877 | |
Maldon | 1867–1874 | |
William Wilson | Ararat | 1866–1874; 1881–1883 |
William Witt [f] | The Murray | 1868–1872; 1874–1877 |
John Woods | Crowlands | 1859–1864; 1871–1892 |
Henry Wrixon | Belfast | 1868–1877; 1880–1894 |
William Zeal | Castlemaine | 1864–1865; 1871–1874 |
- [a] Champ resigned in May 1873, replaced by George Higinbotham in a by-election the same month.
- [b] Fellows left Parliament December 1872, replaced by Robert Murray Smith in an 1873 by-election.
- [c] McCulloch resigned around March 1872, replaced by James Purves in a March 1872 by-election.[2]
- [d] Russell resigned in January 1873 replaced by in a February by-election.[3]
- [e] Spensley left Parliament around May 1873, replaced by in a May 1873 by-election.
- [f] Witt resigned July 1872, replaced by in a by-election the same month
Charles MacMahon was Speaker, Benjamin Davies was Chairman of Committees.
References[]
- ^ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "The Mornington Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 27 March 1872. p. 5.
- ^ "The Ministerial Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 February 1873. p. 5.
- Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- Victorian Hansard, Session 1871 (PDF). Vol. 12. John Ferres, Melb. 1871.
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