Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1851–1856

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This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856. [1] [2] The 1851 Electoral Act increased the number of members in the Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected. [3] The initial appointments were made in October 1851. [4] </ref> The Speaker was Charles Nicholson. [5]

NameAppointed or DistrictYears in office
George Allen Appointed1845–1856
Thomas Barker   [lower-alpha 2] Appointed1853–1856
George Barney Appointed (Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands)1843; 1851–1856
Alexander Berry Appointed1843–1856
James Bettington   [lower-alpha 3] Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh 1851–1853
Francis Bigge   [lower-alpha 4] Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa 1851–1852
James Bligh County of Bathurst 1851–1856
George Bowman Counties of Northumberland and Hunter 1851–1856
William Bowman   [lower-alpha 5] Cumberland Boroughs 1843–1851; 1853–1856
William Bradley   [lower-alpha 6] Appointed1843–1846; 1851–1856
Edward Broadhurst Appointed1851–1856
Robert Campbell   [lower-alpha 7] City of Sydney 1851–1856
James Chisholm Counties of King and Georgiana 1851–1856; 1865–1888
William Christie   [lower-alpha 8] Appointed1852–1856
Daniel Cooper   [lower-alpha 9] Counties of Murray and St Vincent 1849–1851; 1855–1856
Charles Cowper County of Durham 1843–1850; 1851–1856; 1860
Edward Cox   [lower-alpha 10] Appointed1851–1855
John Darvall County of Cumberland 1844–1856
Alfred Denison Appointed1851–1851
John Dobie   [lower-alpha 11] Appointed1851–1855
Stuart Donaldson   [lower-alpha 12] [lower-alpha 13] County of Durham ; Sydney Hamlets 1848–1853; 1855–1856
Henry Douglass Counties of Northumberland and Hunter 1851–1856; 1856–1861
William Dumaresq Counties of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh 1843–1848; 1851–1856
Daniel Egan Pastoral District of Maneroo 1854–1856
Charles Finch   [lower-alpha 3] Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh 1853–1856
Robert Fitzgerald County of Cumberland 1849–1856; 1856–1865
Edward Flood North Eastern Boroughs 1851–1856; 1879–1888
John Gibbes   [lower-alpha 14] Appointed (Collector of Customs)1843–1855
Arthur Hodgson   [lower-alpha 15] County of Stanley 1854
John Holden   [lower-alpha 5] Cumberland Boroughs ; Appointed1851–1853; 1853–1856
Arthur Holroyd Western Boroughs 1851–1856
Thomas Hood   [lower-alpha 16] Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs 1855–1856; 1856–1861
Henry Hughes Appointed1851–1853
Thomas Icely   [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 11] Appointed1843–1853; 1855–1856; 1864–1874
Arthur Jeffreys   [lower-alpha 17] Pastoral District of Maneroo 1851–1854
Richard Jones   [lower-alpha 18] Stanley Boroughs 1829–1843; 1850–1852
Phillip King Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie 1839; 1850–1851; 1851–1856
John Lamb   [lower-alpha 19] City of Sydney 1844–1851; 1851–1853
John Lang   [lower-alpha 7] [lower-alpha 15] City of Sydney County of Stanley 1843–1847; 1850–1851; 1854–1856
George Leslie   [lower-alpha 16] Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs 1851–1855
William Lithgow   [lower-alpha 8] Appointed (Auditor-General)1829–1852
Alexander Longmore   [lower-alpha 6] Appointed1851
James Macarthur County of Camden, Western Division 1839–1843; 1848–1856; 1866–1867
William Macarthur   [lower-alpha 20] Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling 1849–1855; 1864–1882
George Macleay Pastoral District of Murrumbidgee 1851–1856
William Macleay   [lower-alpha 20] Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling 1855–1856
William Manning Appointed (Solicitor General)1851–1856
Matthew Marsh   [lower-alpha 21] Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1851–1855
James Martin Counties of Cook and Westmoreland 1848–1856
Robert Massie   [lower-alpha 21] Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1855
William Mayne   [lower-alpha 22] Appointed (Inspector-General of Police)1852–1856
Francis Merewether Appointed (Postmaster-General)1851–1856
James Mitchell   [lower-alpha 10] Appointed1855–1856
Augustus Morris Pastoral Districts of Liverpool Plains and Gwydir 1851–1856
Terence Murray Southern Boroughs 1843–1856
Bob Nichols Northumberland Boroughs 1848–1856
Charles Nicholson County of Argyle 1843–1856
George Oakes Town of Parramatta 1848–1856; 1879–1881
Alick Osborne   [lower-alpha 9] Counties of Murray and St Vincent 1851–1855
Henry Osborne County of Camden, Eastern Division 1851–1856
Alexander Park   [lower-alpha 12] County of Durham 1853–1856
Henry Parker Appointed1846–1856
Henry Parkes City of Sydney 1854–1856
John Plunkett Appointed (Attorney General)1836–1841; 1843–1856; 1857–1858; 1861–1869
John Richardson   [lower-alpha 15] [lower-alpha 23] County of Stanley ; Stanley Boroughs 1851–1854; 1855–1856
Campbell Riddell Appointed (Colonial Treasurer)1843–1858
Thomas Rusden   [lower-alpha 21] Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1855–1856
Henry Russell   [lower-alpha 18] [lower-alpha 23] Stanley Boroughs 1853–1855
Saul Samuel   [lower-alpha 24] Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington 1854–1856; 1872–1880
Thomas Smart   [lower-alpha 13] Sydney Hamlets 1851–1855; 1870–1881
Richard Smith   [lower-alpha 4] Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa 1853–1856
William Spain   [lower-alpha 22] Appointed (Inspector-General of Police)1851–1852; 1856–1858
John Stirling   [lower-alpha 25] Appointed1854–1856
William Suttor Sr.   [lower-alpha 24] Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington 1843–1854
Edward Thomson   [lower-alpha 25] Appointed (Colonial Secretary)1837–1854; 1856–1879
William Thurlow   [lower-alpha 19] [lower-alpha 26] City of Sydney 1853–1855
Edward Ward   [lower-alpha 14] Appointed1855–1856; 1861–1865
William Wentworth   [lower-alpha 27] City of Sydney 1843–1854; 1861–1862
James Wilshire   [lower-alpha 26] City of Sydney 1855–1856

Notes

  1. ↑ After the initial appointments and elections, the members elected or appointed, in chronological order were Bradley, Campbell, Mayne, Christie, Russell, Park, Smith, Thurlow, Thomas, W Bowman, Wray, Stirling, Egan, Hodgson & Lang, Parkes, Samuel, Wilshire, Donaldson, W Macleay, Cooper, Hood, Icely, Rusden, Ward, Mitchell, and Richardson.<ref name='Russell' group='lower-alpha'>
  2. 1 2 Thomas Icely resigned in March 1853 and Thomas Barker was appointed to replace him. [12]
  3. 1 2 James Bettington resigned in March 1853 and Charles Finch was elected unopposed to replace him. [6]
  4. 1 2 Francis Bigge resigned in December 1852 and Richard Smith was elected unopposed to replace him. [7]
  5. 1 2 John Holden resigned in March 1853 and William Bowman was elected unopposed to replace him. [11]
  6. 1 2 Alexander Longmore died on 27 October 1851 and William Bradley was appointed to replace him. [19]
  7. 1 2 John Lang resigned in October 1851 and Robert Campbell was elected to replace him. [16]
  8. 1 2 William Lithgow resigned in May 1852 and William Christie was appointed to replace him. [18]
  9. 1 2 Alick Osborne resigned in February 1855 and Daniel Cooper was elected to replace him. [20]
  10. 1 2 Edward Cox resigned from the Legislative Council in May 1855 and James Mitchell was appointed to replace him. [8]
  11. 1 2 John Dobie resigned in March 1855 and Thomas Icely was appointed to replace him. [9]
  12. 1 2 Stuart Donaldson resigned in January 1853 and Alexander Park was elected unopposed to replace him. [10]
  13. 1 2 Thomas Smart resigned in February 1855 and Stuart Donaldson was elected to replace him. [24]
  14. 1 2 John Gibbes resigned from the Legislative Council, but not as Collector of Customs, in May 1855 and Edward Ward was appointed to replace him. [8]
  15. 1 2 3 John Richardson resigned in March 1854. Votes were tied in the subsequent by-election the returning officer gave a casting vote for Arthur Hodgson. [21] Hodgson's election however was declared void, [2] and John Lang won the subsequent election by a single vote. [22]
  16. 1 2 George Leslie resigned in February 1855 and Thomas Hood was elected to replace him. [17]
  17. ↑ Arthur Jeffreys resigned in February 1854 and Daniel Egan was elected on a show of hands to replace him. [13]
  18. 1 2 Richard Jones died on 6 November 1852, and Henry Russell was elected on a show of hands to replace him. [14]
  19. 1 2 John Lamb resigned in February 1853 and William Thurlow was elected to replace him. [15]
  20. 1 2 William Macarthur resigned in January 1855 in order to represent the colony at the Paris International Exhibition of 1855 and William Macleay was elected to replace him.
  21. 1 2 3 Matthew Marsh resigned in March 1855 and Robert Massie was elected to replace him. Massie's election however was declared void, [2] and Thomas Rusden won the subsequent election.
  22. 1 2 William Spain resigned in May 1852 and William Mayne was appointed to replace him. [18]
  23. 1 2 Henry Russell resigned in August 1855 and John Richardson was elected unopposed to replace him. [23]
  24. 1 2 William Suttor Sr. resigned in September 1854 and Saul Samuel was elected unopposed to replace him. [25]
  25. 1 2 Edward Thomson resigned in January 1854 from the Legislative Council, but not as Colonial Secretary, while he went to England to watch over the progress of the Constitution Bill in the British parliament. John Stirling was appointed to replace him. [26]
  26. 1 2 William Thurlow resigned in January 1855 and James Wilshire was elected unopposed to replace him. [27]
  27. ↑ William Wentworth resigned in April 1854 from the Legislative Council while he went to England to watch over the progress of the Constitution Bill in the British parliament. Henry Parkes was elected to replace him. [28]

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