Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1894–1897

Last updated August 19, 2025

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 20 September 1894 to the elections of 14 October 1897.^[1] From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly.^[2]^[1]^[3]

Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.

16th Parliament
Name	Electorate	Term in Office
Andrew Anderson ^[a]	Kara Kara	1893–1897
John Anderson	Melbourne East	1894–1901
William Anderson	Windermere	1886–1889; 1894–1898
Edwin Austin	Ripon & Hampden	1892–1900
Thomas Baker	Polwarth	1894–1897
William Beazley	Collingwood	1889–1912
George Bennett	Richmond	1889–1908
Graham Berry	East Bourke Boroughs	1861–1865; 1869–1886; 1892–1897
Robert Best	Fitzroy	1889–1901
John Bowser	Wangaratta and Rutherglen	1894–1929
James Hugh Brake	Horsham	1894–1900
Frederick Bromley	Carlton	1892–1908
John Burton	Stawell	1892–1902
Ewen Hugh Cameron	Evelyn	1874–1914
Godfrey Carter	Melbourne	1877–1883; 1885–1900
John Percy Chirnside	Grant	1894–1904
James Hume Cook	East Bourke Boroughs	1894–1900
Albert Craven	Benambra	1889–1913
Alfred Deakin	Essendon & Flemington	1879–1879; 1880–1900
Alfred Downward	Mornington	1894–1929
James Francis Duffus	Port Fairy	1894–1908; 1911–1914
John Gavan Duffy	Kilmore, Dalhousie & Lancefield	1874–1886; 1887–1904
Daniel Joseph Duggan	Dunolly	1894–1904
John Henry Dyer	Borung	1892–1902
Theodore Fink	Jolimont & West Richmond	1894–1904
Henry Foster	Gippsland East	1889–1902
George Graham	Numurkah and Nathalia	1884–1914
William Grattan	Shepparton and Euroa	1892–1897
James Graves	Delatite	1877–1900; 1902–1904
Frederick Gray	Prahran	1894–1900
Walter Grose	Creswick	1894–1904
William Gurr	Geelong	1894–1902; 1907–1908
Walter Hamilton	Sandhurst	1894–1904
John Hancock	Footscray	1891–1892; 1894–1899
Robert Harper	Bourke East	1879–1880; 1882–1889; 1891–1897
Albert Harris	Gippsland Central	1883–1910
H. B. Higgins	Geelong	1894–1900
William Ievers ^[b]	Carlton South	1892–1895
William Irvine	Lowan	1894–1906
Isaac Isaacs	Bogong	1892–1893; 1893–1901
John Alfred Isaacs	Ovens	1894–1902
Thomas Kennedy	Benalla and Yarrawonga	1894–1901
David Kerr	Grenville	1894–1897; 1899–1904
Thomas Langdon	Korong	1880–1889; 1892–1914
Daniel Barnet Lazarus	Sandhurst	1893–1897; 1900–1902
Jonas Levien	Barwon	1871–1877; 1880–1906
Francis Longmore	Dandenong & Berwick	1864–1883; 1894–1897
James McColl	Gunbower	1886–1901
Robert McGregor	Ballarat East	1894–1924
John McIntyre	Maldon	1877–1880; 1881–1902
Malcolm McKenzie	Anglesey	1892–1903; 1911–1920
Allan McLean	Gippsland North	1880–1901
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Donald Norman McLeod	Portland	1894–1900
Frank Madden	Eastern Suburbs	1894–1917
William Maloney	Melbourne West	1889–1903
Francis Mason	Gippsland South	1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902
William Moule	Brighton	1894–1900
Edward Murphy	Warrenheip	1886–1900
John Murray	Warrnambool	1884–1916
Richard O'Neill	Mandurang	1893–1902
Alfred Richard Outtrim	Maryborough	1885–1902; 1904–1920
James Patterson ^[c]	Castlemaine	1870–1895
Alexander Peacock	Clunes & Allandale	1889–1933
George Prendergast	North Melbourne	1894–1897; 1900–1926; 1927–1937
Hugh Rawson	Kyneton	1892–1900
Robert Dyce Reid	Toorak	1883–1889; 1894–1897
John Rogers	South Yarra	1894–1897
George Russell	Grenville	1892–1900
Carty Salmon	Talbot and Avoca	1894–1901
George Sangster	Port Melbourne	1894–1915
Thomas Scott ^[d]	Villiers & Heytesbury	1892–1896
William Shiels	Normanby	1880–1904
Robert Smith	Hawthorn	1873–1877; 1878–1882; 1894–1900
Thomas Smith	Emerald Hill	1889–1904
William Collard Smith ^[e]	Ballarat West	1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Samuel Staughton Sr.	Bourke West	1880; 1883–1901
David Sterry	Sandhurst South	1889–1904
James Styles	Williamstown	1894–1900
John William Taverner	Donald & Swan Hill	1889–1904
John Thomson	Dundas	1892–1900; 1902–1914
William Trenwith	Richmond	1889–1903
Albert Tucker	Fitzroy	1874–1900
George Turner	St Kilda	1889–1901
George J. Turner	Gippsland West	1892–1900
Richard Vale	Ballarat West	1886–1889; 1892–1902
William Webb	Rodney	1889–1897; 1903–1904
James Wheeler	Daylesford	1864–1867; 1880–1900
Andrew White	Rodney	1894–1897
John White	Albert Park	1892–1902
Edgar Wilkins	Collingwood	1892–1908
Edward David Williams	Castlemaine	1894–1904
Henry Williams	Eaglehawk	1877–1883; 1889–1902
Joseph Winter ^[f]	Melbourne South	1892–1896
Ephraim Zox	Melbourne East	1877–1899

Graham Berry was Speaker, Francis Mason was Chairman of Committees.

^[a] Anderson died 10 April 1897; replaced by Peter McBride, sworn-in June 1897.

^[b] Ievers died 19 February 1895; replaced by John Barrett, sworn-in May 1895.

^[c] Patterson died 30 October 1895; replaced by James Whiteside McCay, sworn-in November 1895.

^[d] Scott left Parliament in June 1896; replaced by John Neil McArthur, sworn-in July 1896.

^[e] Smith died 20 October 1894; replaced by Joseph Kirton, sworn-in November 1894.

^[f] Winter died 2 May 1896; replaced by John Tucker, sworn-in June 1896.

References

1 2 "Legislative Assembly Elections". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
↑ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-05.
↑ "Find a Member". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 2025-07-17.

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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1894–1897

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