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Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856

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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as appointed to the Council of 1853 or elected at the 1853 election (main table). Members added in 1855 are noted in a separate section below.

From 1851 to 1856 the original Legislative Council was unicameral (a single chamber) and consisted of Electoral districts.[1] From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house).[2]

Victorian Legislative Council districts 1851–1854
Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that electorate.
Name Type Electoral district[1] (or Office) Term in Office
Thomas Turner à Beckett nominee
1852–1856; 1858–1878
Andrew Aldcorn[a] nominee
1853
Joseph Anderson nominee
1852–1856
George Annand[b] elected North Bourke 1853–1855
William Burnley elected North Bourke 1853–1856
William Campbell[c] elected Loddon 1851–1854; 1862–1882
James Cassell office-bearing nominee (Collector of Customs) 1853
Hugh Childers[d] office-bearing nominee (Auditor-General 1852–1853) 1852–1856
Andrew Clarke office-bearing nominee (Surveyor General) 1853–1856
George Ward Cole[e] elected Gipps' Land 1853–1855; 1859–1879
James Cowie[f] elected Geelong 1853–1854; 1856–1858
James Croke[g] office-bearing nominee (Solicitor-General) 1852–1854
John Dane[h] elected South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington 1853–1854
Edward Nucella Emmett[i] nominee
1853
John Fawkner elected Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey 1851–1869
John Foster[j] office-bearing nominee (Colonial Secretary) 1853–1854
Adolphus Goldsmith[k] elected Ripon, Hampden, Grenville & Polwarth 1851–1853
John Goodman elected Loddon 1853–1856
James Graham[l] nominee
1853–1854; 1867–1886
Augustus Greeves elected City of Melbourne 1853–1856
Charles Griffith elected (nom. 1851–52) Normanby, Dundas and Follett 1851–1852; 1853–1856
William Haines[m] elected (nom. 1851–52) Grant 1851–1852; 1853–1856; 1865–1866
James Henty elected Portland 1853–1882
Matthew Hervey elected Murray 1853–1865
William Highett nominee
1853–1856; 1857–1880
John Hodgson elected City of Melbourne 1853–1860
Henry Langlands[n] elected City of Melbourne 1853
Henry Miller elected South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington 1851–1866
William Mitchell[o] office-bearing nominee (Chief Commissioner of Police) 1853; 1856–1858; 1859–1884
William Mollison elected Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey 1853–1856
Francis Murphy elected Murray 1851–1853; 1853–1856; 1872–1876
James Murphy[p] elected City of Melbourne 1853–1855
John Myles elected Grant 1852–1856
Mark Nicholson[q] elected Belfast and Warrnambool 1853–1854
William Nicholson elected North Bourke 1852–1856
Patrick O'Brien elected Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1853–1856
John O'Shanassy elected City of Melbourne 1851–1856; 1868–1874
James Frederick Palmer elected Normanby, Dundas and Follett 1851–1870
Edward Stone Parker[r] nominee
1853–1854
Robert Pohlman[s] office-bearing nominee (Master in Equity) 1851–1854; 1855–1856
John Carre Riddell nominee
1852–1856
Andrew Russell nominee
1851–1856
William Rutledge[t] elected Villiers and Heytesbury 1851–1854
John Smith elected City of Melbourne 1851–1856
Peter Snodgrass elected Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1851–1856
William Splatt[u] elected Wimmera 1851–1854
William Stawell office-bearing nominee (Attorney-General) 1851–1856
Frederick Stevens[v] elected Belfast and Warrnambool 1853–1854
James Strachan elected Geelong 1851–1866; 1866–1874
Alexander Thomson[w] elected Geelong 1852–1854
James Thomson[x] elected Ripon, Hampden, Grenville & Polwarth 1853–1854
Thomas Wilkinson elected Portland 1851–1856
George Winter[y] elected Villiers and Heytesbury 1853–1854
William Wright office-bearing nominee (Chief Commissioner of Gold Fields) 1853–1856

a Aldcorn resigned 24 November 1853; replaced by James McCulloch (non-office-bearing nominee) from 1 August 1854[3]
b Annand resigned July 1855; replaced by Thomas Embling, by-election Sep. 1855
c Campbell resigned May 1854; replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows, by-election Sep. 1854
d Childers was Auditor-General until 5 December 1853[4] replaced by Edward Grimes from 8 December 1853.[5] Childers was Collector of Customs from 5 December 1853
e Cole resigned May 1855; replaced by John King by-election Nov. 1855
f Cowie resigned May 1854, replaced by James Harrison, by-election Nov. 1854
g Croke resigned January 1854, replaced by Robert Molesworth from 4 January 1854[6]
h Dane resigned November 1854; replaced by Henry Samuel Chapman, by-election Feb. 1855
i Emmett resigned September 1853; replaced by Andrew Knight on 6 September 1853; Knight resigned 8 March 1854; replaced by Charles Bradshaw on 1 August 1854[3]
j Foster resigned December 1854, replaced by William Haines as Colonial Secretary on 12 December 1854[7]
k Goldsmith resigned November 1853, replaced by John Thompson Charlton
l Graham resigned July 1854, replaced by Donald Kennedy from September 1854[8]
m Haines resigned Dec. 1854; replaced by Horatio Wills, January 1855
n Langlands was unseated; replaced by successful appealer Frederick James Sargood, Oct. 1853
o Mitchell resigned November 1853, replaced by Charles MacMahon
p James Murphy resigned Sep. 1855; replaced by Thomas Rae by-election Nov. 1855
q Nicholson resigned May 1854; replaced by George Horne, by-election Sep. 1854
r Parker resigned August 1854; replaced by Alfred Ross 12 August 1854[3]
s Pohlman resigned as nominee October 1854, elected for Ripon and Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth, January 1855.
   Pohlman replaced by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the council on 16 October 1854[3]
t Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855
u Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854
v Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854
w Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854
x James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Colin Campbell, by-election 1854
y Winter resigned Aug. 1854; replaced by William Forlonge, by-election, Oct. 1854

Members from 1855

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In 1855, five new electorates were created, a total of eight elected members and one non-office bearing nominee were added to the council.[9] Nominations took place on 10 November 1855, Humffray and Lalor were elected unopposed.[10] An office-bearing nominee (Treasurer) was added 28 November 1855.[11]

Name Type Electoral district[12] / Position Term in Office
Robert Benson elected Sandhurst 1855–1856
Daniel Cameron elected Ovens 1855–1856
James Macpherson Grant elected Sandhurst 1855–1856
John Basson Humffray elected Ballaarat 1855–1856
Peter Lalor elected Ballaarat 1855–1856
Duncan Longden elected Avoca 1855–1856
John D. Owens nominee
1855–1856
Vincent Pyke elected Castlemaine 1855–1856
Charles Sladen office-bearing nominee (Treasurer) 1855–1856
James Atkin Wheeler elected Castlemaine 1855–1856

References

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  1. ^ a b "Victorian Electoral Act" (PDF). New South Wales Government. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  2. ^ Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d Sweetman, p.179
  4. ^ "Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Grimes, Edward". 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.
  6. ^ Statistical register of the State of Victoria, 1908
  7. ^ "Haines, William Clark". 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.
  8. ^ Sweetman, p.176
  9. ^ Sweetman, p.110
  10. ^ "Melbourne". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 November 1855. p. 2.
  11. ^ Sweetman, p181
  12. ^ "An Act to further alter "The Victoria Electoral Act of 1851" and to increase the Number of Members of the Legislative Council of Victoria" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2013.