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]
Name | Type | Electoral district [1] (or Office) | Term in Office |
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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 Angelsey | 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 Angelsey | 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 |
aAldcorn resigned 24 November 1853; replaced by James McCulloch (non-office-bearing nominee) from 1 August 1854 [3]
bAnnand resigned July 1855; replaced by Thomas Embling, by-election Sep. 1855
cCampbell resigned May 1854; replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows, by-election Sep. 1854
dChilders 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
eCole resigned May 1855; replaced by John King by-election Nov. 1855
fCowie resigned May 1854, replaced by James Harrison, by-election Nov. 1854
gCroke resigned January 1854, replaced by Robert Molesworth from 4 January 1854 [6]
hDane resigned November 1854; replaced by Henry Samuel Chapman, by-election Feb. 1855
iEmmett 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]
jFoster resigned December 1854, replaced by William Haines as Colonial Secretary on 12 December 1854 [7]
kGoldsmith resigned November 1853, replaced by John Thompson Charlton
lGraham resigned July 1854, replaced by Donald Kennedy from September 1854 [8]
mHaines resigned Dec. 1854; replaced by Horatio Wills, January 1855
nLanglands was unseated; replaced by successful appealer Frederick James Sargood, Oct. 1853
oMitchell resigned November 1853, replaced by Charles MacMahon
pJames Murphy resigned Sep. 1855; replaced by Thomas Rae by-election Nov. 1855
qNicholson resigned May 1854; replaced by George Horne, by-election Sep. 1854
rParker resigned August 1854; replaced by Alfred Ross 12 August 1854 [3]
sPohlman 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]
tRutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855
uSplatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854
vStevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854
wAlexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854
xJames Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Colin Campbell, by-election 1854
yWinter resigned Aug. 1854; replaced by William Forlonge, by-election, Oct. 1854
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 |
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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 |
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