Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1908–1911

Last updated April 08, 2024

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 29 December 1908 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 16 November 1911.^[1]

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

Name	Party^[2]	Electorate	Term in Office
Frank Anstey ^[a]	Labor	Brunswick	1902–1910
Reginald Argyle	Anti-Socialist	Dalhousie	1900–1914
Samuel Barnes ^[c]	VFU	Walhalla	1910–1927
Norman Bayles	Anti-Socialist	Toorak	1906–1920
William Beazley	Labor	Abbotsford	1889–1912
Thomas Bent ^[b]	Anti-Socialist / Reform	Brighton	1871–1894; 1900–1909
Alfred Billson	Anti-Socialist	Ovens	1901–1902; 1904–1927
John Billson	Labor	Fitzroy	1900–1924
John Bowser	Anti-Socialist	Wangaratta	1894–1929
Ewen Hugh Cameron	Anti-Socialist	Evelyn	1874–1914
James Cameron	Anti-Socialist	Gippsland East	1902–1920
Hugh Campbell	Anti-Socialist	Glenelg	1906–1920
John Carlisle	Anti-Socialist	Benalla	1903–1927
George Cookson	Anti-Socialist	Upper Goulburn	1908–1911
Ted Cotter	Labor	Richmond	1908–1945
Albert Craven	Anti-Socialist	Benambra	1889–1913
John Cullen	Anti-Socialist	Gunbower	1901–1911
Martin Cussen	Anti-Socialist	Waranga	1908–1911
Alfred Downward	Anti-Socialist	Mornington	1894–1929
George Elmslie	Labor	Albert Park	1902–1918
James Farrer	Anti-Socialist	Barwon	1906–1917
Charles Forrest	Anti-Socialist	Polwarth	1886–1894; 1897–1911
Thomas Glass	Labor	Bendigo East	1907–1911
George Graham	Anti-Socialist	Goulburn Valley	1884–1914
John Gray	Anti-Socialist	Swan Hill	1904–1917
Martin Hannah	Labor	Collingwood	1904–1906; 1908–1921
Albert Harris ^[c]	Anti-Socialist	Walhalla	1883–1910
George Holden	Independent	Warrenheip	1900–1913
William Hutchinson	Anti-Socialist	Borung	1902–1920
James Jewell ^[a]	Labor	Brunswick	1910–1949
William Keast	Independent	Dandenong	1900–1917
Thomas Langdon	Anti-Socialist	Korong	1880–1889; 1892–1914
Harry Lawson	Anti-Socialist	Castlemaine and Maldon	1900–1928
John Lemmon	Labor	Williamstown	1904–1955
Thomas Livingston	Anti-Socialist	Gippsland South	1902–1922
Peter McBride	Anti-Socialist	Kara Kara	1897–1913
Robert McCutcheon	Anti-Socialist	St Kilda	1902–1917
Charles McGrath	Labor	Grenville	1904–1913
Robert McGregor	Anti-Socialist	Ballarat East	1894–1924
Hugh McKenzie	Anti-Socialist	Rodney	1904–1917
John Mackey	Anti-Socialist	Gippsland West	1902–1924
Donald Mackinnon	Anti-Socialist	Prahran	1900–1920
Andrew McKissock	Labor	Ballarat West	1908–1911
James Weir McLachlan	Labor	Gippsland North	1908–1938
Donald McLeod	Anti-Socialist	Daylesford	1900–1923
Frank Madden	Anti-Socialist	Boroondara	1894–1917
James Membrey	Labor	Jika Jika	1907–1917
John Murray	Independent	Warrnambool	1884–1916
David Oman	Anti-Socialist	Hampden	1900–1927
Alfred Richard Outtrim	Labor	Maryborough	1885–1902; 1904–1920
Alexander Peacock	Anti-Socialist	Allandale	1889–1933
William Plain	Labor	Geelong	1908–1917
George Prendergast	Labor	North Melbourne	1894–1897; 1900–1926; 1927–1937
Andrew Robertson	Anti-Socialist	Bulla	1903–1924
Alexander Rogers	Labor	Melbourne	1908–1924
George Sangster	Labor	Port Melbourne	1894–1915
David Smith	Labor	Bendigo West	1904–1924
Oswald Snowball ^[b]	Comm. Liberal	Brighton	1909–1928
Robert Solly	Labor	Carlton	1904–1906; 1908–1932
George Swinburne	Anti-Socialist	Hawthorn	1902–1913
Robert Stanley	Anti-Socialist	Lowan	1900–1904; 1906–1911
John Thomson	Anti-Socialist	Dundas	1892–1900; 1902–1914
Richard Toutcher	Independent	Stawell and Ararat	1897–1935
Tom Tunnecliffe	Labor	Eaglehawk	1903–1904; 1907–1920; 1921–1947
Jeremiah Wall	Labor	Port Fairy	1908–1911
Edward Warde	Labor	Flemington	1900–1925
William Watt	Independent	Essendon	1897–1900; 1902–1914
Henry Weedon	Anti-Socialist	East Melbourne	1907–1911

^[a] Anstey resigned in February 1910; replaced by James Jewell in March 1910.

^[b] Bent died 17 September 1909; replaced by Oswald Snowball in October 1909.

^[c] Harris died 5 July 1910; replaced by Samuel Barnes in July 1910.

Related Research Articles

Sir Robert Wallace Best, KCMG was an Australian lawyer and politician who served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was a Senator for Victoria from 1901 to 1910, and then represented the Division of Kooyong in the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1922. Best served in cabinet in the second and third governments of Alfred Deakin. Before entering federal politics, he also served in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1901, where he was a government minister.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from the elections of 23 September – 24 October 1856 to those of 26 August – 26 September 1859. The Assembly was created in 1856.

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

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.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 30 December 1865, 15 and 29 January 1866 to the elections of 21 January; 7, 20 February 1868. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 21 January; 7, 20 February 1868 to the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871 to the elections of 25 March; 9, 22 April 1874. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 28 March 1889 to the elections of 20 April 1892. There were 95 seats in the Assembly from 1889, up from 86 in the previous Parliament.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the 1902 state election held on 1 October 1902 to the 1904 state election held on 1 June 1904. From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 5 June 1919 until 31 May 1922 election. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1916 triennial election with terms expiring in 1922, while the other half were elected at the 1919 triennial election with terms expiring in 1925.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 16 November 1911 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 15 November 1914:

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 15 March 1907 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 29 December 1908.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 1 June 1904 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 15 March 1907.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 6 June 1913, up to the election of 1 June 1916. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1910 triennial election with terms expiring in 1916, while the other half were elected at the 1913 triennial election with terms expiring in 1919.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 2 June 1910, up to the election of 3 June 1913. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1907 triennial election with terms expiring in 1913, while the other half were elected at the 1910 triennial election with terms expiring in 1916.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 4 June 1907, up to the election of 2 June 1910. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1904 triennial election with terms expiring in 1910, while the other half were elected at the 1907 triennial election with terms expiring in 1913.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 1 June 1904, up to the election of 4 June 1907. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1902 election with terms expiring in 1907, while the other half were elected at the 1904 triennial election with terms expiring in 1910.

Arthur Knight Wallace was an Australian politician.

The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is currently the ruling party in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as premier of Victoria since 2023.

Alexander Rogers was an Australian politician.

References

↑ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
↑ "State Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 30 December 1908.

Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.
Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), First Session 1909 (PDF). Vol. 120. Melbourne: J. Kemp. 1909.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 13 May 2014.

[2] "State Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 30 December 1908.

[1]

[2]

[a]

[c]

[b]

v t e Members of the Parliament of Victoria
Legislative Assembly	1856–1859 1859–1861 1861–1864 1864–1865 1866–1867 1868–1871 1871–1874 1874–1877 1877–1880 1880–1883 1883–1886 1886–1889 1889–1892 1892–1894 1894–1897 1897–1900 1900–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1908 1908–1911 1911–1914 1914–1917 1917–1920 1920–1921 1921–1924 1924–1927 1927–1929 1929–1932 1932–1935 1935–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1945 1945–1947 1947–1950 1950–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022 2022–2026
Legislative Council	1851–1853 1853–1856 1856–1858 1858–1860 1860–1862 1862–1864 1864–1866 1866–1868 1868–1870 1870–1872 1872–1874 1874–1876 1876–1878 1878–1880 1880–1882 1882–1884 1884–1886 1886–1888 1888–1890 1890–1892 1892–1895 1895–1896 1896–1898 1898–1900 1900–1901 1901–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1910 1910–1913 1913–1916 1916–1919 1919–1922 1922–1925 1925–1928 1928–1931 1931–1934 1934–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1946 1946–1949 1949–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022 2022–2026