This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

Tasmanian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart...

between 1945 and 1951. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year.

A major redistribution in 1946 resulted in the multi-member divisions of Hobart

Electoral division of Hobart

The electoral division of Hobart is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Wellington returned to its former name....

 and Launceston being split up—the old divisions remained as single-member divisions, whilst Hobart spawned Newdegate and Queenborough, and Launceston spawned Cornwall. A new division of West Devon was created from rural areas of Mersey

Electoral division of Mersey

The Electoral division of Mersey is one of the fifteen constituencies in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division covers only a small area of 237 km².At the 2009 election, the division had 23,568 enrolled voters....

, whilst Cambridge combined with parts of Macquarie to form the new Monmouth.

Elections

Date	Electorates
8 May 1945	Cambridge (Monmouth); Hobart Electoral division of Hobart The electoral division of Hobart is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Wellington returned to its former name....  (Newdegate), Russell
7 May 1946	Hobart Electoral division of Hobart The electoral division of Hobart is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Wellington returned to its former name.... ; Launceston; Gordon
10 May 1947	Meander; Pembroke Electoral division of Pembroke The Electoral Division of Pembroke is one of the 15 electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house. It is located on Hobart's Eastern Shore and includes a number of suburbs; Risdon Vale, Geilston Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne, Warrane, Mornington, Bellerive, Howrah and... ; Queenborough; West Devon
8 May 1948	Cornwall; Huon Electoral division of Huon The Electoral division of Huon is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was created in 1999, however similar electorates of this name have existed since 1900 , and members of the Tasmanian upper house for this region appear to have been elected since 1856... ; Mersey Electoral division of Mersey The Electoral division of Mersey is one of the fifteen constituencies in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division covers only a small area of 237 km².At the 2009 election, the division had 23,568 enrolled voters....
14 May 1949	Derwent Electoral division of Derwent The Electoral division of Derwent is one of the fifteen electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It is situated in the south of the state and is named after the Derwent River.The last boundary redistribution occurred in 2008... ; Tamar; Westmorland
13 May 1950	Buckingham; Macquarie; South Esk

Members

Name	Division	Years in office	Elected
Compton Archer	Macquarie	1944–1950	1944
Henry Baker	Queenborough (Hobart)	1948–1968	b/e
Arthur Blacklow	Pembroke Electoral division of Pembroke The Electoral Division of Pembroke is one of the 15 electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house. It is located on Hobart's Eastern Shore and includes a number of suburbs; Risdon Vale, Geilston Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne, Warrane, Mornington, Bellerive, Howrah and...	1936–1953	1947
Ronald Brown	Huon Electoral division of Huon The Electoral division of Huon is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was created in 1999, however similar electorates of this name have existed since 1900 , and members of the Tasmanian upper house for this region appear to have been elected since 1856...	1948–1966	1948
Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....	Macquarie	1950–1968	1950
James Bell Connolly (Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... )	Buckingham	1948–1968	1950
Arthur Cutts	Tamar	1937–1955	1949
Thomas d'Alton Thomas d'Alton Thomas George De Largie d'Alton was an Australian politician. He was born in Warracknabeal in Victoria. In 1931 d'Alton was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Darwin; he was a minister from 1934 to 1943 and resigned from the House in 1944. In 1946 he was the subject... (Labor)	Gordon	1947–1968	b/e
Joe Darling Joe Darling Joseph "Joe" Darling CBE was an Australian cricketer who played 34 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1894 and 1905. As captain, he led Australia in a total of 21 Tests, winning seven and losing four. In Test cricket, he scored 1657 runs at an average of 28.56 per innings, including...	Cambridge	1921–1946	1945
Charles Eady Charles Eady Charles John Eady was a cricketer who played for Tasmanian clubs and representative sides in the era before Tasmania was accepted into the Sheffield Shield and other competitions...	Hobart Electoral division of Hobart The electoral division of Hobart is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Wellington returned to its former name....	1925–1945	1940
Arthur Fenton	Russell	1933–1957	1945
George Flowers George Flowers George Lenthorn Flowers was an Australian politician. He was born in Caveside, Tasmania. In 1942 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for Westmorland. He was Chair of Committees from 1952 to 1957. He served in the Council until his death at Launceston in...	Westmorland	1942–1958	1949
Geoffrey Green	Cambridge/Monmouth	1946–1959	b/e
Richard Green	Launceston	1946–1950	1946
Arthur Grounds (Labor)	Launceston	1950–1951	b/e
Alexander Lillico Alexander Lillico Alexander Lillico was a Tasmanian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1924 to 1954, representing Mersey.-References:...	Mersey Electoral division of Mersey The Electoral division of Mersey is one of the fifteen constituencies in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division covers only a small area of 237 km².At the 2009 election, the division had 23,568 enrolled voters....	1924–1954	1948
Elliot Lillico	Meander	1943–1958	1947
Dennis Lonergan	Newdegate (Hobart)	1945–1951	1945
James McDonald James McDonald (Tasmanian politician) James McDonald was Australian Labor Party Member of the Tasmania House of Assembly for the electorate of Bass from 26 June 1915, when he was successful at a by-election, until his defeat at the election held on 26 June 1915... (Labor)	Gordon	1916–1922; 1928–1947	1946
George McElwee George McElwee George Johnston McElwee was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston, Tasmania. In 1940 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor member for Launceston, holding the seat until his defeat in 1946....  (Labor)	Launceston	1940–1946	1940
Margaret McIntyre Margaret McIntyre Margaret Edgeworth David McIntyre OBE was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania , representing the seat of Cornwall in the Legislative Council....	Cornwall (Launceston)	1948	1948
Leslie Procter	South Esk	1939–1962	1950
Ernest Record	Cornwall (Launceston)	1948–1954	b/e
William Robinson	Cornwall (Launceston)	1942–1948	1942
Rupert Shoobridge	Derwent Electoral division of Derwent The Electoral division of Derwent is one of the fifteen electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It is situated in the south of the state and is named after the Derwent River.The last boundary redistribution occurred in 2008...	1937–1955	1949
Sir John Soundy	Hobart Electoral division of Hobart The electoral division of Hobart is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Wellington returned to its former name....	1946–1952	1946
William Strutt William Strutt William Strutt was an English artist.Strutt was born in Teignmouth, Devon, England, and came from a family of artists, his grandfather, Joseph Strutt, was a well-known author and artist, his father, William Thomas Strutt, was a good miniature painter...	Queenborough (Hobart)	1938–1948	1947
Arthur Tattersall	West Devon	1947–1953	1947
Bill Wedd	Buckingham	1944–1948	1944
Rowland Worsley (Labor)	Huon Electoral division of Huon The Electoral division of Huon is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was created in 1999, however similar electorates of this name have existed since 1900 , and members of the Tasmanian upper house for this region appear to have been elected since 1856...	1942–1948	1942

Sources

• Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856