Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1868–1870
This is a list of members of the 4th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1868 to 1870, as elected at the 1868 colonial elections held between 14 September 1868 and 6 October 1868 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).[1]
Name | Electorate | Term in office |
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Archibald Archer[6] | Rockhampton | 1867–1869; 1878–1886; 1888–1896 |
Robert Travers Atkin[2][9] | Clermont East Moreton | 1868–1869; 1870–1872 |
Joshua Peter Bell | Northern Downs | 1862–1879 |
John Robinson Benson[10] | Clermont | 1870–1870 |
Rt Hon John Bright[5] | Kennedy | 1869–1870 |
Archibald Berdmore Buchanan[8] | Mitchell | 1870; 1871–1873 |
Oscar de Satge[2][10] | Clermont | 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 |
John Douglas[1] | East Moreton | 1863–1866; 1867–1868; 1875–1880 |
George Edmondstone[3] | Town of Brisbane | 1860–1867; 1869–1877 |
Gilbert Eliott | Wide Bay | 1860–1870 |
John Ferrett[12] | West Moreton | 1860–1863; 1870–1873 |
Thomas Henry FitzGerald[5] | Kennedy | 1867–1869; 1873–1875 |
Frederick Forbes | West Moreton | 1860–1863; 1865–1867; 1868–1873 |
Arthur Francis[9] | East Moreton | 1867–1870 |
Simon Fraser | Town of Brisbane | 1868–1870; 1873–1878; 1880–1888 |
Alexander Fyfe [11] | Rockhampton | 1870–1873 |
William Henry Groom | Drayton and Toowoomba | 1862–1901 |
Charles Haly[4] | Burnett | 1860–1863; 1865–1867; 1869–1871; 1876–1878 |
Hon Arthur Hodgson[7] | Warrego | 1868–1869 |
Samuel Hodgson[12] | West Moreton | 1868–1870 |
Henry Jordan[1] | East Moreton | 1860; 1868–1871; 1883–1890 |
Edward Lamb[8] | Mitchell | 1867–1869 |
Charles Lilley | Hamlet of Fortitude Valley | 1860–1873 |
Arthur Macalister | Eastern Downs | 1860–1871; 1872–1876 |
Thomas McIlwraith[7] | Warrego | 1870–1871; 1873–1886; 1888–1896 |
Robert Mackenzie[4] | Burnett | 1860–1869 |
William Miles | Maranoa | 1864–1873; 1874–1875; 1876–1887 |
Henry Milford [6][11] | Rockhampton | 1869–1870 |
John Murphy | Town of Ipswich | 1867–1870 |
Kevin O'Doherty | Town of Brisbane | 1867–1873 |
Hon Arthur Hunter Palmer | Port Curtis | 1866–1881 |
Ratcliffe Pring | Burnett | 1860–1862; 1863–1866; 1867–1872; 1873–1874; 1878–1879 |
Theophilus Parsons Pugh[3] | Town of Brisbane | 1863–1869 |
Robert Ramsay | Western Downs | 1867–1873 |
Charles Royds | Leichhardt | 1860–1864; 1868–1872 |
Gordon Sandeman | Leichhardt | 1863–1870 |
Thomas Blacket Stephens | Town of South Brisbane | 1863–1875 |
James Taylor | Western Downs | 1860–1870 |
John Malbon Thompson | Town of Ipswich | 1868–1881 |
George Thorn | West Moreton | 1867–1874; 1876–1878; 1879–1883; 1887–1888; 1893–1902 |
Edmond Thornton | Warwick | 1868–1870; 1871–1873 |
William Henry Walsh | Maryborough | 1865–1878 |
Henry Williams | Town of Ipswich | 1868–1870 |
See also
- Premier:
- Robert Mackenzie (1867–1868)
- Charles Lilley (1868–1870)
Notes
- 1 On 11 December 1868, John Douglas, member for East Moreton, resigned. Henry Jordan won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1868.
- 2 On 29 January 1869, Robert Travers Atkin, member for Clermont, resigned. Oscar de Satge won the resulting by-election on 4 March 1869.
- 3 On 30 January 1869, Theophilus Parsons Pugh, member for Town of Brisbane, resigned. George Edmondstone was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election on 10 February 1869.
- 4 On 6 April 1869, Robert Mackenzie, former Premier and member for Burnett, retired from politics and departed for Europe. Charles Haly won the resulting by-election on 21 April 1869.
- 5 On 11 June 1869, Thomas Henry FitzGerald, member for Kennedy, resigned. Rt Hon John Bright, an English Radical politician who was endorsed as a form of protest, won the resulting by-election on 10 July 1869. He never took his seat in the Queensland Parliament.
- 6 On 19 November 1869, Archibald Archer, member for Rockhampton, resigned. Henry Milford won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1869, although did not take his seat.
- 7 On 23 November 1869, Arthur Hodgson, the member for Warrego, resigned. Thomas McIlwraith won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1870.
- 8 On 3 December 1869, Edward Lamb, member for Mitchell, resigned. Archibald Berdmore Buchanan won the resulting by-election on 8 February 1870; however, it emerged he had not nominated as a candidate and had been elected against his own wishes, and he resigned two days later.
- 9 On 17 February 1870, Arthur Francis, member for East Moreton, resigned due to insolvency. After Robert Cribb withdrew his nomination, Robert Travers Atkin was elected unopposed on 17 February 1870.
- 10 On 4 April 1870, Oscar de Satge, member for the Clermont resigned. John Robinson Benson won the resulting by-election on 4 May 1870.
- 11 On 7 June 1870, Henry Milford, member for Rockhampton since a December 1869 by-election, resigned. He stood again at the resulting by-election on 20 June 1870, but was defeated by Alexander Fyfe.
- 12 On 13 June 1870, Samuel Hodgson, member for West Moreton, resigned. John Ferrett won the resulting by-election on 25 June 1870.
References
- ^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
- Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)
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