Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1861–1862

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This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1861 elections and the 1862 elections.

Name	District	Years in office
Edward Abbott	Clarence	1856–1864
Robert Adams ^[2]	Hobart Town	1859–1866
William Race Allison	Campbell Town	1856–1865
William Archer ^[5]	Devon	1860–1862; 1866–1868
John Balfe	Franklin	1857–1872; 1874–1880
Henry Butler	Brighton	1856–1862; 1866–1885
Thomas Chapman	Queenborough	1856–1864; 1866–1873
John Crookes	Launceston	1857–1862; 1866
John Davies ^[1]^[5]	Hobart Town Devon	1861; 1862–1871
William Lambert Dobson	Hobart Town	1861–1862; 1864–1870
William Dodery	Norfolk Plains	1861–1870
Adye Douglas ^[4]	Westbury	1856–1857; 1862–1884
Henry Dowling	Launceston	1861–1862
Thomas Field ^[4]	Westbury	1856–1862
James Grant	Fingal	1861–1863
Thomas Gregson	Richmond	1856–1872
Charles Henty	George Town	1856–1862
Samuel Hill ^[2]	Hobart Town	1861
William Hodgson	Sorell	1861–1881
Thomas Horne	Hobart Town	1861–1866
Frederick Innes	Morven	1856–1862; 1872–1877
Robert Kermode	Ringwood	1857–1859; 1861–1862
Douglas Kilburn ^[3]	Hobart Town	1861–1862
James MacLanachan	Oatlands	1859–1862
Charles Meredith ^[1]	Hobart Town	1856–1879
John Meredith	Glamorgan	1861–1863; 1865–1871
Maxwell Miller ^[3]	Hobart Town	1856–1861; 1862–1864
Robert Miller	Launceston	1861–1867
Sir Robert Officer	Glenorchy	1856–1877
John Perkins	Kingborough	1861–1866
Adolphus Rooke	Deloraine	1856–1862; 1868–1869; 1871–1872
William Sharland	New Norfolk	1861–1872
Isaac Sherwin	Selby	1860–1866
Frederick Synnott	Cumberland	1861–1862

¹ In October 1861, John Davies, one of the five members for Hobart Town, resigned. Charles Meredith won the resulting by-election on 28 October 1861.

² On 23 October 1861, Samuel Hill, one of the five members for Hobart Town, died. Robert Adams won the resulting by-election on 4 November 1861.

³ In April 1862, Douglas Kilburn, one of the five members for Hobart Town, resigned. Maxwell Miller won the resulting by-election on 28 May 1862.

⁴ In April 1862, Thomas Field, the member for Westbury, resigned. Adye Douglas was elected unopposed on 30 May 1862.

⁵ In May 1862, William Archer, the member for Devon, resigned. John Davies was elected unopposed on 25 June 1862.

Sources

Newman, Terry (1994). Representation of the Tasmanian People. Tasmanian Parliamentary Library. ISBN 0-7246-4147-5.
Parliament of Tasmania (2020). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856

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