Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1856 to 1859.
| Name | Electorate Electoral districts of Victoria The Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the Australian State, is elected from 88 single-member electorates called districts.-Current districts:This is a list of districts .* Electoral district of Albert Park* Electoral district of Altona... |
First elected |
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| Travers Adamson Travers Adamson Travers Adamson Travers Adamson Travers Adamson (1827–1897 was an Australian colonial lawyer, politician, and public servant.Adamson was called to the Irish bar at King's Inns in April 1850, and admitted to practise at the Victorian Bar on 24 November 1852. He represented the Murray district in the... |
Murray | 1856 |
| William Anderson William Anderson (Australian politician) Hon. William Anderson , J.P., was a Scottish-born, colonial Victorian farmer and politician.Anderson, the son of James Anderson and Hannah his wife, was born at Montrose, Scotland, on 3 January 1828, and was taken to Launceston, Tasmania, in Oct. 1841, arriving on 1 April of the following year... |
Evelyn and Mornington Electoral district of Evelyn and Mornington The Electoral district of Evelyn and Mornington was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of Evelyn and Mornington:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1856 |
| Butler Aspinall | Talbot | 1856 |
| John Baragwanath | Rodney Electoral district of Rodney The Electoral district of Rodney is a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.The Rodney District covers an area of 7,808 square kilometres, including the towns of Echuca, Rochester, Nathalia, Cohuna, Heathcote, Gunbower, Kyabram, Rushworth and Stanhope.The district... |
1856 |
| Francis Beaver | Belfast | 1856 |
| Robert Bennett Robert Bennett (Melbourne mayor) Robert Bennett was Mayor of Melbourne, Australia between 1861 and 1862. Bennett was born in Ireland and died in Melbourne in 1891.... |
East Bourke | 1856 |
| David Blair David Blair (encyclopedist) David Blair was an Irish Australian politician, journalist and encyclopedist.-Background:David Blair was born in County Monaghan, Ireland to parents of Scottish descent. He studied at the Hibernian Military School, Dublin... |
Talbot | 1856 |
| John Brooke | Geelong Electoral district of Geelong The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong... |
1856 |
| Daniel Cameron | Ovens | 1856 |
| Colin Campbell | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville | 1856 |
| Daniel Campbell | Richmond | 1856 |
| Hugh Childers Hugh Childers Hugh Culling Eardley Childers was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office... |
Portland Electoral district of Portland The electoral district of Portland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Portland:... |
1856 |
| Andrew Clarke Andrew Clarke (administrator) Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke, GCMG, CB, CIE was a British soldier and governor as well as a politician in Australia.-Background and education:... |
South Melbourne Electoral district of South Melbourne Electoral district of South Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for South Melbourne:... |
1856 |
| James Davis | Alberton Electoral district of Alberton The electoral district of Alberton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Alberton:... |
1856 |
| Charles Gavan Duffy Charles Gavan Duffy Additional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922.... |
Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856 |
| Thomas Embling Thomas Embling Thomas Embling was a doctor from the United Kingdom who took an interest in the humane treatment of inmates in asylums before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia where he set about reforming the Yarra Bend Asylum... |
Collingwood | 1856 |
| George Evans | Richmond | 1856 |
| Thomas Fellows | St Kilda Electoral district of St Kilda The Electoral district of St. Kilda was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of St Kilda:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1856 |
| John Foster | Williamstown Electoral district of Williamstown Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville... |
1856 |
| Alexander Fyfe | Geelong Electoral district of Geelong The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong... |
1856 |
| John Goodman | Murray | 1856 |
| James Grant James Macpherson Grant James Macpherson Grant was an Australian solicitor who defended the Eureka Stockade rebels and a politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council.-Early life and legal career:... |
Sandhurst | 1856 |
| Augustus Greeves | East Bourke | 1856 |
| Charles Griffith | Dundas and Follett | 1856 |
| William Haines William Haines Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality... |
South Grant | 1856 |
| William Hammill | Wimmera Electoral district of Wimmera The electoral district of Wimmera was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Wimmera:... |
1856 |
| George Harker | Collingwood | 1856 |
| Edward Henty Edward Henty See also Western District Edward Henty ,was a pioneer and first permanent settler in the Port Phillip district , Australia.... |
Normanby | 1856 |
| George Horne | Warrnambool Electoral district of Warrnambool The Electoral district of Warrnambool was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Warrnambool:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1856 |
| Daniel Hughes | Portland Electoral district of Portland The electoral district of Portland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Portland:... |
1856 |
| John Humffray | North Grant | 1856 |
| George Johnson | Kyneton Boroughs | 1856 |
| John King | Gippsland | 1856 |
| Peter Lalor Peter Lalor Peter Fintan Lalor was an activist turned politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion, an event controversially identified with the "birth of democracy" in Australia.- Early life and migration to Australia :... |
North Grenville | 1856 |
| James McCulloch James McCulloch James McCulloch is also the name of the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second National Bank of the United States. This James McCulloch was not involved in the McCulloch vs. Maryland U.S. Supreme Court case.... |
Wimmera Electoral district of Wimmera The electoral district of Wimmera was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Wimmera:... |
1856 |
| Robert McDougall | West Bourke | 1856 |
| Archibald Michie | Melbourne Electoral district of Melbourne The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne... |
1856 |
| David Moore | Melbourne Electoral district of Melbourne The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne... |
1856 |
| Francis Murphy | Murray Boroughs | 1856 |
| John Myles | South Grant | 1856 |
| Patrick O'Brien | South Bourke | 1856 |
| John O'Shanassy John O'Shanassy Sir John O'Shanassy, KCMG , Australian colonial politician, was the 2nd Premier of Victoria. O'Shanassy was born near Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of a surveyor, and came to the Port Phillip District in 1839... |
Kilmore | 1856 |
| John Owens | Loddon | 1856 |
| Alexander Palmer | Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856 |
| Charles Pasley | South Bourke | 1856 |
| Patrick Phelan | West Bourke | 1856 |
| Vincent Pyke Vincent Pyke Vincent Pyke was a 19th century politician in Otago, New Zealand and Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.-Early life:He was born in Somerset, England... |
Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856 |
| Charles Read | Geelong Electoral district of Geelong The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong... |
1856 |
| Andrew Rutherford | Colac Electoral district of Colac The Electoral district of Colac was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Colac:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1856 |
| William Rutledge | Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856 |
| Frederick Sargood | St Kilda Electoral district of St Kilda The Electoral district of St. Kilda was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of St Kilda:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1856 |
| Charles Sladen Charles Sladen Sir Charles Sladen, KCMG , Australian colonial politician, was the 6th Premier of Victoria.Sladen was born in England near Walmer, Kent, the second son of John Baker Sladen, deputy-lieutenant of the county. He was educated at Shrewsbury and later at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1840, he graduated... |
Geelong Electoral district of Geelong The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong... |
1856 |
| John Smith | Melbourne Electoral district of Melbourne The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne... |
1856 |
| Peter Snodgrass | Anglesey Electoral district of Anglesey The electoral district of Anglesey was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Anglesey:... |
1856 |
| William Stawell | Melbourne Electoral district of Melbourne The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne... |
1856 |
| Ebenezer Syme Ebenezer Syme Ebenezer Syme was a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age.Syme was born at North Berwick, Scotland, third son of George Alexander Syme, schoolmaster, and his wife Jean, née Mitchell. Ebenezer Syme's younger brother was David Syme... |
Loddon | 1856 |
| Jeremiah Ware | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville | 1856 |
| J. B. Were | Brighton Electoral district of Brighton The Electoral district of Brighton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Brighton:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1856 |
| Horatio Wills Horatio Wills Horatio Spencer Howe Wills , or Horace Wills, was an Australian pastoralist and politician. Born in Sydney, the son of a convict sent to Australia for highway robbery, Wills is notable as being involved in several events in Australian history... |
South Grant | 1856 |