Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from the elections of 23 September – 24 October 1856 to those of 26 August – 26 September 1859.[1] The Assembly was created in 1856.
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- 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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Travers Adamson | The Murray | 1856–1859 |
William Anderson | Evelyn and Mornington | 1856–1858 |
Butler Aspinall | Talbot | 1856–1864; 1866–1870 |
John Baragwanath [1] | Rodney | 1856–1857 |
Francis Beaver | Belfast | 1856–1859 |
Robert Bennett | East Bourke | 1856–1857; 1859–1864 |
David Blair | Talbot | 1856–1859; 1868–1871 |
John Brooke | Geelong | 1856–1864 |
Daniel Cameron [2] | Ovens | 1856–1857 |
Colin Campbell | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden & South Grenville | 1856–1859; 1874–1877 |
Daniel Campbell | Richmond | 1856–1859 |
Hugh Childers [3] | Portland | 1856–1857 |
Andrew Clarke [4] | South Melbourne | 1856–1858 |
James Davis | Alberton | 1856–1859 |
Charles Gavan Duffy | Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880 |
Thomas Embling | Collingwood | 1856–1861; 1866–1867 |
George Evans | Richmond | 1856–1864 |
Thomas Fellows [5] | St Kilda | 1856–1858; 1868–1872 |
John Foster | Williamstown | 1856–1857 |
Alexander Fyfe [6] | Geelong | 1856–1857 |
John Goodman [7] | The Murray | 1856–1858 |
James Grant | Sandhurst Boroughs | 1856–1870; 1871–1885 |
Augustus Greeves [8] | East Bourke | 1856–1857; 1857–1859; 1860–1861; 1864–1865 |
Charles Griffith [9] | Dundas and Follett | 1856–1858 |
William Haines [10] | South Grant | 1856–1858; 1860–1864 |
William Hammill | Wimmera | 1856–1857 |
George Harker | Collingwood | 1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874 |
Edward Henty | Normanby | 1856–1861 |
George Horne | Warrnambool | 1856–1861 |
Daniel Hughes | Portland | 1856–1859 |
John Humffray | North Grant | 1856–1864; 1868–1871 |
George Johnson | Kyneton Boroughs | 1856–1859 |
John King [11] | Gippsland | 1856–1857 |
Peter Lalor | North Grenville | 1856–1871; 1874–1889 |
Henry Langlands / (John O'Shanassy)# | Melbourne | 1857–1859 |
James McCulloch | Wimmera | 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878 |
Robert McDougall [12] | West Bourke | 1856–1857 |
Archibald Michie | Melbourne | 1856–1861; 1863–1865; 1870–1871 |
David Moore | Melbourne | 1856–1859; 1864–1867 |
Francis Murphy | Murray Boroughs | 1856–1865; 1866–1871 |
John Myles | South Grant | 1856–1861 |
Patrick O'Brien | South Bourke | 1856–1859 |
John O'Shanassy# | Kilmore | 1856–1865; 1877–1883 |
John Owens | Loddon | 1856–1859; 1861–1863 |
Alexander Palmer [13] | Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856–1857 |
Charles Pasley [14] | South Bourke | 1856–1857 |
Patrick Phelan | West Bourke | 1856–1860 |
Vincent Pyke [15] | Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856–1857; 1859–1862 |
Charles Read [16] | Geelong | 1856–1858 |
Andrew Rutherford [17] | Colac | 1856–1857 |
William Rutledge | Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856–1859 |
Frederick Sargood [18] | St Kilda | 1856–1857 |
Charles Sladen [19] | Geelong | 1856–1857 |
John Smith | Melbourne | 1856–1879 |
Peter Snodgrass | Anglesey | 1856–1867 |
William Stawell [20] | Melbourne | 1856–1857 |
Ebenezer Syme | Loddon | 1856–1859 |
Jeremiah Ware | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden & South Grenville | 1856–1859 |
Jonathan Binns Were [21] | Brighton | 1856–1857 |
Horatio Wills | South Grant | 1856–1859 |
Notes
^# O'Shanassy won both Melbourne and Kilmore districts, deciding to represent the latter he resigned from Melbourne.[2] The by-election for Melbourne in January 1857 was won by Henry Langlands.
- 1 Baragwanath resigned in December 1857, replaced by John Everard in a January 1858 by-election.
- 2 Cameron resigned in March 1857, replaced by John Wood in an April 1857 by-election.
- 3 Childers resigned in February 1857, replaced by John Findlay in a July 1857 by-election.
- 4 Clarke resigned in August 1858, replaced by Robert Anderson in an October 1858 by-election.
- 5 Fellows resigned in May 1858, replaced by John Crews in a May 1858 by-election.
- 6 Fyfe resigned in November 1857, replaced by George Board in a February 1858 by-election
- 7 Goodman resigned in January 1858, replaced by William Forlonge in a January 1858 by-election. Forlonge resigned in January 1859, replaced in turn by William Nicholson in a January 1859 by-election
- 8 Greeves resigned in March 1857, replaced by Richard Heales in a March 1857 by-election
- 9 Griffith resigned in February 1858, replaced by William Mollison in an April 1858 by-election
- 10 Haines left Parliament around November 1858, replaced by John Bell in a January 1859 by-election.
- 11 King resigned in September 1857, replaced by John Johnson in a November 1857 by-election
- 12 McDougall resigned in August 1857, replaced by Joseph Wilkie in an August 1857 by-election
- 13 Palmer resigned in July 1857, replaced by Richard Davies Ireland in an August 1857 by-election
- 14 Pasley resigned in July 1857, replaced by Sidney Ricardo in a July 1857 by-election.
- 15 Pyke resigned in February 1857, replaced by Robert Sitwell in a March 1857 by-election
- 16 Read resigned in February 1858, replaced by James Harrison in an April 1858 by-election
- 17 Rutherford resigned in July 1857, replaced by Theodore Hancock in a July 1857 by-election
- 18 Sargood resigned in December 1857, replaced by Henry Chapman in a January 1858 by-election.
- 19 Sladen resigned in March 1857, replaced by Alexander Thomson in December 1857
- 20 Stawell resigned in February 1857, replaced by James Service in March 1857
- 21 Were resigned in February 1857, replaced by Charles Ebden in a March 1857 by-election
References
- 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 21 April 2013.
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