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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864

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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia from the elections of 2–19 August 1861 to the elections of October–November 1864.[1]

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
Butler Cole Aspinall Geelong East 1856–1864; 1866–1870
Kenric Brodribb St Kilda 1861–1864
William Brodribb [a] Brighton 1861–1862
John Henry Brooke Geelong West 1856–1864
Robert Bennett East Bourke 1856–1857; 1859–1864
Graham Berry Collingwood 1861–1865; 1869–1886; 1892–1897
James Casey [d] Sandhurst 1861–1862; 1863–1880
John Cathie Ballaarat East 1859–1864
Henry Samuel Chapman [b] Mornington 1858–1859; 1861–1862
James Chapman [c] Castlemaine 1860–1861
Edward Cohen East Melbourne 1861–1865; 1868–1877
Patrick Costello [e] North Melbourne 1861
Michael James Cummins South Grant 1861–1864
Benjamin George Davies Avoca 1861–1880
John Davies North Melbourne 1861–1864
William Denovan [f] Sandhurst 1861–1862
Charles Jardine Don Collingwood 1859–1864
Charles Gavan Duffy Villiers and Heytesbury 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
John Edwards Collingwood 1861–1867
John Everard [g] North Gippsland 1858–1859; 1861; 1864;
1868–1871; 1874
Daniel Ratcliffe Flint [h] Ararat 1861–1862
Nicholas Foott Geelong West 1860–1868
James Francis Richmond 1859–1874; 1878–1884
William Frazer Creswick 1859–1870
Robert Gillespie [i] Grenville 1859–1862
Duncan Gillies Ballaarat West 1861–1868; 1870–1877;
1877–1894; 1897–1903
James Macpherson Grant Avoca 1856–1870; 1871–1885
Wilson Gray [j] Rodney 1860–1862
William Haines Portland 1856–1858; 1860–1864
Richard Heales East Bourke Boroughs 1857–1864
George Hedley [k] South Gippsland 1861–1862
John Hood Belfast 1859–1864
John Houston Crowlands 1859–1865
John Humffray Ballaarat East 1856–1864; 1868–1871
Richard Davies Ireland [l] Villiers and Heytesbury 1857–1864; 1866–1867
Richard Davies Ireland [m] Maryborough 1857–1864; 1866–1867
James Johnston St Kilda 1859–1864
William Jones [n] Evelyn 1860–1863
George Kirk East Bourke 1861–1864
Ambrose Kyte East Melbourne 1861–1865; 1867–1867
Peter Lalor South Grant 1856–1871; 1874–1889
Thomas Lambert Richmond 1861–1864
George Levey Normanby 1861–1867
Nathaniel Levi Maryborough 1861–1865; 1866–1867
Thomas Loader West Melbourne 1859–1864
John Macadam Castlemaine 1859–1861; 1861–1864
William Nelson McCann South Grant 1861–1867
Robert MacDonald Creswick 1861–1864
William McLellan Ararat 1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon West Bourke 1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
Thomas Manifold [o] Warrnambool 1861
William Mollison Dundas 1858–1858; 1859–1864
Francis Murphy Murray Boroughs 1856–1865; 1866–1871
William Nicholson Sandridge 1859–1864
William Nixon [p] Polwarth & South Grenville 1861–1863
Alfred Arthur O'Connor Grenville 1861–1864
Michael O'Grady South Bourke 1861–1868; 1870–1876
James Orkney West Melbourne 1861–1864; 1880–1885
John O'Shanassy Kilmore 1856–1865; 1877–1883
John Downes Owens [q] Mandurang 1856–1859; 1861–1863
Vincent Pyke [r] Castlemaine 1856–1857; 1859–1862
John Ramsay Maldon 1861–1867
David Reid [s] The Murray 1859–1862
John Richardson Geelong East 1861–1876
John Carre Riddell West Bourke 1860–1877
James Service [t] Ripon and Hampden 1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
John Smith West Bourke 1856–1879
Louis Smith South Bourke 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880;
1880–1883; 1886–1894
William Collard Smith [u] Ballaarat West 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Peter Snodgrass Dalhousie 1856–1867
James Forester Sullivan Mandurang 1861–1871; 1874–1876
Robert Braithwaite Tucker Kyneton Boroughs 1861–1867
George Frederic Verdon Williamstown 1859–1868
William Charles Weekes Ovens 1861–1864
Samuel Wilson Wimmera 1861–1864
John Woods Crowlands 1859–1864; 1871–1892
Peter Wright Ovens 1861–1864; 1877–1880; 1886–1889
a Brodribb resigned in March 1862; replaced by George Higinbotham in an April 1862 by-election
b H. Chapman resigned in February 1862; replaced by James McCulloch in a March 1862 by-election
c J. Chapman was disqualified in October 1861; replaced by Alexander John Smith in a November 1861 by-election
d Casey was unseated on petition in March 1862;[2] replaced by Robert Frederick Howard in a March 1862 by-election
e Costello was expelled in November 1861; replaced by John Sinclair in a November 1861 by-election[3]
f Denovan resigned in July 1862; replaced by Robert Strickland in a November 1862 by-election
g Everard was disqualified in August 1861 (insolvent); replaced by George Mackay in an August 1861 by-election. Mackay resigned in April 1864; replaced in turn by Everard in an April 1864 by-election
h Flint resigned March 1862; replaced by Tharp Girdlestone in an April 1862 by-election
i Gillespie resigned in March 1862; replaced by Mark Morrell Pope in a March 1862 by-election
j Gray resigned in September 1862; replaced by John MacGregor in a November 1862 by-election
k Hedley resigned in October 1862; replaced by John Johnson in a November 1862 by-election
l Ireland resigned in April 1864; replaced by Samuel MacGregor in a May 1864 by-election
m Ireland won both Maryborough, and Villiers and Heytesbury; he resigned from the former; replaced by George S. Evans in an October 1861 by-election
n Jones resigned in March 1863; replaced by John Thomson in an April 1863 by-election
o Manifold resigned in November 1861; replaced by John Wood in a December 1861 by-election
p Nixon left the Assembly in July 1863; replaced by Archibald Michie sworn-in August 1863
q Owens resigned around July 1863; replaced by James Joseph Casey sworn-in August 1863
r Pyke resigned in June 1862; replaced by George Allen Smyth in a November 1862 by-election
s Reid was disqualified in May 1862; replaced by John Orr in a March 1862 by-election
t Service resigned around August 1862; replaced by George Morton in a November by-election
u W. Smith resigned in January 1864; replaced by Robert Lewis sworn-in February 1864; Lewis resigned c. July 1864

References

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  1. ^ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  2. ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Casey, Hon. James Joseph" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Legislative Assembly". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. 27 November 1861.