Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council from the elections on 5 August 1856 to the elections of 31 August to 2 October 1858.[1]
The old unicameral, partly nominated Legislative Council was abolished on 20 March 1856.[2] On 7 November 1856 the members of the now bicameral and fully elected Victorian Parliament were published in the Government Gazette. [3] The new Council first met in November 1856.
There were six Electoral Provinces and five members elected to each Province.[4]
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- Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province.
Name | Province | Term in Office |
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John Allan | North-Western | 1856–1858 |
John Barter Bennett | South | 1856–1863 |
William J. T. Clarke | South | 1856–1861; 1863–1870 |
James Cowie | South-Western | 1853–1854; 1856–1858 |
Andrew Cruikshank[a] | Western | 1856–1858 |
John Pascoe Fawkner | Central[4] | 1851–1869 |
Nehemiah Guthridge | Central | 1856–1858 |
James Henty [p] | South-Western | 1853–1882 |
Stephen Henty | Western | 1856–1870 |
Matthew Hervey | Eastern | 1853–1865 |
John Hodgson [p] | Central | 1853–1860 |
John Hood | Central | 1856–1859 |
Robert Hope | South-Western | 1856–1864; 1867–1874 |
William Kaye[b] | Eastern | 1856–1857 |
Donald Kennedy | South | 1854–1864 |
Dennis Keogh | North-Western | 1856–1860 |
Thomas McCombie | South | 1856–1859 |
Henry Miller [p] [c] | Central | 1851–1866 |
William Mitchell | North-Western | 1853; 1856–1858; 1859–1884 |
James Palmer | Western[4] | 1851–1870 |
John Patterson | North-Western | 1856–1859 |
Thomas Power | South | 1856–1864 |
William Roope | South-Western | 1856–1860 |
James Stewart | Eastern | 1856–1863 |
James Strachan [p] | South-Western | 1851–1866; 1866–1874 |
Robert Thomson | Eastern | 1856–1863 |
Daniel Tierney | Western | 1856–1859 |
George Urquhart | North-Western | 1856–1860 |
Charles Vaughan | Western | 1856–1864 |
Benjamin Williams | Eastern | 1856–1874 |
- a Cruikshank resigned March 1858; replaced by Henry Miller in a by-election May 1858
- b Kaye was disqualified for bribery February 1857,[5] replaced by William Highett in a by-election May 1857
- c Miller resigned April 1858, replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows in a by-election May 1858
- p Previous member of an old district of unicameral Council when it was abolished in March 1856
References
- ^ "Legislative Council Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 45. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Sweetman, p.67
- ^ Sweetman, p.183
- ^ "William Kaye". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- "Former Members". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria.
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