Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1868-1870

This is a list of members of the fifth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...

, which sat from 31 July 1868 until 2 March 1870. The members were elected at the 1868 state election.

Previous assembly: 1865–1868

Next assembly: 1870–1871

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Electorate South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts Since 1970, the South Australian House of Assembly has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters...	Term in Office
Richard Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews was an Australian politician and judge.Richard Bullock Andrews was born in Epping, Essex, England the eldest child of Richard Bullock Andrews, an attorney, and his wife Emma Ann. From December 1839 Bullock worked in his father's solicitors business...	The Sturt	1857–1860, 1862–1870
Richard Baker Richard Baker (Australian politician) Sir Richard Chaffey Baker KCMG was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade, he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics, serving as state attorney-general and President of the Legislative Council before switching to federal politics after federation...	Barossa	1868–1871
George Thomas Bean	West Torrens Electoral district of West Torrens West Torrens is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the City of West Torrens because of its location on the River Torrens, it is a 26.7 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western suburbs...	1868–1870
Neville Blyth	Encounter Bay	1860–1867, 1868–1870, 1871, 1877–1878
David Bower	Port Adelaide Electoral district of Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Port Adelaide because of its geographical location, it is a 113.4 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula and stretches east to cove some of Adelaide's northern...	1865–1870, 1875–1887
James Boucaut James Boucaut Sir James Penn Boucaut KCMG was an Australian judge and politician, Premier of South Australia three times: 1866–1867, 1875–1876 and 1877–1878.-Early life:...	The Burra	1861–1862, 1865–1870, 1871–1878
Henry Bright	Stanley	1865–1884
John Carr	Noarlunga	1865–1879, 1881–1884
Wentworth Cavenagh	Yatala	1862–1875, 1875–1881
John Cheriton	Mount Barker	1868, 1868–1871
John Colton John Colton Sir John Colton KCMG was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist.Colton, the son of William Colton, a farmer, was born in Devonshire, England. He arrived in South Australia in 1839 with his parents, who went on the land...	Noarlunga	1862–1870, 1875–1878, 1880–1887
Robert Cottrell	East Adelaide	1868–1875
John Dunn	Mount Barker	1857–1868, 1868
William Everard William Everard (South Australian politician) William Everard was a South Australian businessman and politician, a son of Dr. Charles George Everard M.P...	Encounter Bay	1865–1870, 1871–1872
Daniel Fisher Daniel Fisher Daniel Fisher may refer to:* Daniel Fisher of The Cooper Temple Clause*Daniel Fisher...	East Torrens	1867–1870
Joseph Fisher Joseph Fisher (Australian politician) Joseph Fisher was a South Australian politician and newspaper proprietor born in Brighouse, Yorkshire.-Early Days:...	The Sturt	1868–1870
Henry Fuller Henry Robert Fuller Henry Robert Fuller was Mayor of Adelaide from 1866 to 1869....	West Adelaide	1865–1870
Lavington Glyde	Yatala	1857–1875, 1877–1884
John Hart John Hart, senior Captain John Hart was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.-Early life:The son of journalist/newspaper publisher John Harriott Hart & Mary nee Glanville, John was born on 25 February 1809 probably at 23 Warwick Lane off Newgate Street, London. At Christ Church, Greyfriars...	Light Electoral district of Light Light is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Colonel William Light who was the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The electorate was created in 1857, abolished in 1902 and reinstated in 1936...	1857–1859, 1862–1866, 1868–1873
Alexander Hay Alexander Hay (South Australian politician) Alexander Hay was a South Australian merchant, pastoralist and politician.-Early career:Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, as a young man he gained free passage to South Australia when working as a "wharfer", arriving in May 1839. After working for only two years for the South Australia Company, he...	Gumeracha	1857–1861, 1867–1871
Henry Hill	Port Adelaide	1868–1870
Henry Kent Hughes Henry Kent Hughes Henry Kent Hughes , usually referred to as "H. Kent Hughes", was a pastoralist and politician who sat in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1868 to 1875 representing the seats of Victoria and Port Adelaide....	Victoria	1868–1875
George Kingston George Strickland Kingston Sir George Strickland Kingston arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836. He was the Deputy Surveyor to William Light, engaged to survey the new colony of South Australia.-Early life:...	Stanley	1857–1860, 1861–1880
William Lewis	Light	1868–1870
William Mortlock	Flinders Electoral district of Flinders Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and...	1868–1870, 1871–1875, 1878–1884
John Bentham Neales	The Burra	1857–1860, 1862–1870
George Pearce	East Torrens	1868–1870
John Pickering	West Torrens	1865–1868, 1870, 1871–1878
Thomas Playford Thomas Playford II Thomas Playford served as Premier of South Australia from 11 June 1887 to 26 June 1889 and 8 August 1890 to 20 June 1892, as well as serving as the Australian Federal Minister for Defence from 1905 to 1907....	Onkaparinga	1868–1871, 1875–1887, 1887–1890, 1899–1901
Hon Thomas Reynolds	East Adelaide	1857–1862, 1862, 1864–1870, 1871–1872, 1872–1873
John Riddoch	Victoria	1865–1870, 1871–1873
William Rogers	Mount Barker	1858–1860, 1864–1865, 1868, 1868–1870, 1872–1875
William Sandover	Gumeracha	1868–1870
Philip Santo Philip Santo Philip Santo was a South Australian politician and businessman. He was born at Saltash, Cornwall, and trained to be a carpenter. At the age of 22 he left for South Australia on the ship Brightman, arriving in Adelaide in December 1840. He worked as a builder in Adelaide, then Burra...	Barossa	1860–1870
William Knox Simms	West Adelaide	1868–1870, 1871–1876, 1878–1881
Frederick Spicer	The Sturt	1870
Hon Henry Strangways Henry Strangways Henry Bull Templar Strangways was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.Strangways was the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways of Shapwick, Somerset, England. He visited South Australia as a boy. Returning to England he entered at the Middle Temple in November 1851 and was called...	West Torrens	1858–1871
William Townsend	Onkaparinga	1857–1882
Alfred Watts	Flinders	1862–1866, 1868–1875

John Cheriton and William Rogers were initially declared elected as the two members for Mount Barker, but their election was challenged and they were unseated on 11 August 1868. Cheriton was re-elected in the resulting by-election on 3 September, but Rogers was defeated by John Dunn. Dunn's election was then challenged, and his election was voided on 9 October. Rogers then won a second by-election on 5 November.

The Sturt MHA Richard Andrews

Richard Bullock Andrews

Richard Bullock Andrews was an Australian politician and judge.Richard Bullock Andrews was born in Epping, Essex, England the eldest child of Richard Bullock Andrews, an attorney, and his wife Emma Ann. From December 1839 Bullock worked in his father's solicitors business...

resigned on 18 January 1870. Frederick Spicer won the resulting by-election on 10 February.

The seat of West Torrens MHA was declared vacant on 20 January 1870 due to George Bean's non-attendance. John Pickering won the resulting by-election on 10 February.

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