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. AndersonEmerald Hill1858–1864
Henry AmsinckWest Bourke1859–1861
Butler Cole Aspinall [a]Castlemaine1856–1864; 1866–1870
John BaileyBallaarat West1859–1861
George BartonNorth Melbourne1859–1861
George Brodie [b]Mandurang1859–1861
John Henry BrookeGeelong West1856–1864
Robert BennettEast Bourke1856–1857; 1859–1864
Robert CaldwellWest Melbourne1859–1861
Thomas CarpenterMandurang1859–1861; 1864–1865
James Gattie CarrSouth Grant1859–1861; 1868–1870
John CathieBallaarat East1859–1864
James Cowie [c]Geelong East1859–1860
Charles DonCollingwood1859–1864
Charles Gavan DuffyVilliers and Heytesbury1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
Charles Ebden [d]Brighton1857–1861
Thomas EmblingCollingwood1856–1861; 1866–1867
George Samuel EvansAvoca1856–1864
John Everard [e]Rodney1858–1859; 1861; 1864;
1868–1871; 1874
Robert FirebraceWimmera1859–1861
James FrancisRichmond1859–1874; 1878–1884
William FrazerCreswick1859–1870
Robert GillespieGrenville1859–1862
James Macpherson GrantAvoca1856–1870; 1871–1885
Thomas HadleyKyneton Boroughs1859–1861
George Harker [f]Maldon1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874
James Harrison [g]Geelong West1858–1860
Richard HealesEast Bourke Boroughs1857–1864
John HendersonSandhurst1859–1861
Edward HentyNormanby1856–1861
John HoodBelfast1859–1864
George Horne [h]Warrnambool1856–1861
John HoustonCrowlands1859–1865
Robert HowardSandhurst1859–1861; 1862–1865
John HumffrayBallaarat East1856–1864; 1868–1871
Alexander Hunter [i]East Melbourne1859–1861
Richard D. Ireland [j]Maryborough1857–1864; 1866–1867
John JohnsonNorth Gippsland1857–1861; 1862–1864
James JohnstonSt Kilda1859–1864
Alexander Keefer [k]Ovens1859–1860
John Charles King [l]Evelyn1859
Mark Last KingWest Bourke1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Peter LalorSouth Grant1856–1871; 1874–1889
Thomas LoaderWest Melbourne1859–1864
Richard Henry LockGrenville1859–1861; 1874–1877
William LyallMornington1859–1861
John Macadam [m]Castlemaine1859–1861; 1861–1864
James MacintoshEast Bourke1859–1861
James McCullochEast Melbourne1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
William McLellanArarat1859–1877; 1883–1897
Donald Norman McLeod [n]Portland1859–1860
Angus McMillan [o]South Gippsland1859–1860
Archibald MichieSt Kilda1856–1861; 1863–1865; 1870–1871
William MollisonDundas1858–1858; 1859–1864
Francis MurphyMurray Boroughs1856–1865; 1866–1871
John MylesSouth Grant1856–1861
Hibbert NewtonSouth Bourke1859–1861
William NicholsonSandridge1859–1864
William O'HeaArarat1859–1861; 1877–1880; 1880–1881
John O'ShanassyKilmore1856–1865; 1877–1883
Patrick Phelan [p]West Bourke1856–1860
Michael PrendergastMaryborough1859–1861
Vincent PykeCastlemaine1856–1857; 1859–1862
David ReidThe Murray1859–1862
Alexander RussellVilliers and Heytesbury1859–1861
Robert SerjeantBallaarat West1859–1861
James ServiceRipon and Hampden1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
John SinclairNorth Melbourne1859–1864
John SmithCreswick1856–1861
Louis SmithSouth Bourke1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880;
1880–1883; 1886–1894
Peter SnodgrassDalhousie1856–1867
George Milner StephenCollingwood1859–1861
Alexander ThomsonGeelong East1857–1859; 1859–1861
George Frederic VerdonWilliamstown1859–1868
Joseph WilkiePolwarth & South Grenville1857–1861
John WoodOvens1857–1861; 1861–1864
John WoodsCrowlands1859–1864; 1871–1892
Alfred WoolleyRichmond1859–1861
a Aspinall resigned September 1860, replaced by James Chapman in a November 1860 by-election
b Brodie resigned in May 1861, replaced by James Sullivan 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 James Martley in a March 1860 by-election
g Harrison resigned September 1860, replaced by Nicholas Foott in a November 1860 by-election
h Horne resigned February 1861, replaced by Thomas Manifold 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 John Donald in a March 1860 by-election
l King resigned November 1859, replaced by William Bell in a January 1860 by-election. Bell resigned in March 1860, replaced by William Jones in a March 1860 by-election
m Macadam left Parliament in May 1861, replaced by Alexander John Smith (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

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