Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1877–1880
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 11 May 1877.[1] Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.
There was an electoral redistribution which came into effect in 1877, fourteen districts were created (Barwon, Benambra, Boroondara, Carlton, Delatite, Fitzroy, Footscray, Geelong, Grant, Kara Kara, Kilmore and Anglesey, Maryborough and Talbot, Moira, Stawell) and eight abolished (Kilmore, The Murray, Murray Boroughs, South Grant, Crowlands, Geelong East, Geelong West, Maryborough).[2]
- Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
Name | Electorate | Term in Office |
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John Andrew | West Melbourne | 1877–1880 |
John Mitchell Barr | Maryborough & Talbot | 1877–1883 |
William Bayles | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1864–1880 |
Henry Bell | Ballarat West | 1877–1886 |
Thomas Bent | Brighton | 1871–1894; 1900–1909 |
Graham Berry | Geelong | 1861–1865; 1869–1886 |
George Billson | Ovens | 1877–1880; 1883–1886 |
John Bird | Grenville | 1877–1880 |
W. G. Blackham [a] | Sandhurst | 1877 |
Joseph Bosisto | Richmond | 1874–1889; 1892–1894 |
Robert Bowman | Maryborough & Talbot | 1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893 |
Daniel Brophy | Ballarat East | 1877–1880; 1880–1883 |
Donald Cameron | West Bourke | 1877–1880 |
Ewen Cameron | Evelyn | 1874–1914 |
Godfrey Carter | St Kilda | 1877–1883; 1885–1900 |
James Casey | Mandurang | 1861–1862; 1863–1880 |
Alfred Clark | Williamstown | 1871–1887 |
Robert Clark | Sandhurst | 1877–1883 |
Robert Clark | Wimmera | 1877–1880 |
William Mitchell Cook | East Bourke Boroughs | 1876–1883 |
Thomas Cooper | Creswick | 1877–1889 |
Thomas Cope | Portland | 1868–1880 |
Benjamin George Davies | Avoca | 1861–1880 |
David Davies | Grenville | 1877–1894 |
Edward Dixon | St Kilda | 1874–1880; 1889–1894 |
John Dow | Kara Kara | 1877–1893 |
Charles Gavan Duffy | North Gippsland | 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880 |
John Gavan Duffy | Dalhousie | 1874–1886; 1887–1904 |
Jeremiah Dwyer [b] | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1877–1879 |
James Farrell [c] | Castlemaine | 1866–1878 |
James Fergusson | South Bourke | 1871–1874; 1877–1880 |
George Fincham | Ballarat West | 1875–1886 |
Simon Fraser | Rodney | 1874–1883 |
David Gaunson | Ararat | 1875–1881; 1883–1889; 1904–1906 |
Duncan Gillies | Rodney | 1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1889 |
James Macpherson Grant | Avoca | 1856–1870; 1871–1885 |
James Graves | Delatite | 1877–1900; 1902–1904 |
Thomas Hunt | Kilmore and Anglesey | 1874–1892; 1903–1904 |
John James | Ballarat East | 1869–1870; 1871–1886 |
Robert de Bruce Johnstone | Geelong | 1870–1881 |
George Kerferd | Ovens | 1864–1886 |
Charles Kernot | Geelong | 1868–1871; 1876–1880; 1880–1882 |
Mark King [d] | Footscray | 1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879 |
Peter Lalor | Grant | 1856–1871; 1874–1889 |
George Langridge | Collingwood | 1874–1891 |
John Laurens | North Melbourne | 1877–1892 |
Jonas Levien [e] | Barwon | 1871–1877; 1880–1906 |
Francis Longmore | Ripon & Hampden | 1864–1883; 1894–1897 |
Andrew Lyell | Emerald Hill | 1877–1880 |
George Macartney [f] | South Gippsland | 1869–1871; 1877–1878 |
James MacBain | Wimmera | 1864–1880 |
James McCulloch [g] | Warrnambool | 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878 |
Robert Macgregor [h] | Fitzroy | 1877–1879; 1880–1883 |
John McIntyre | Sandhurst | 1877–1880; 1881–1902 |
Charles MacMahon [i] | West Melbourne | 1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886 |
John MacPherson [j] | Dundas | 1864–1865; 1866–1878 |
John Madden | Sandridge | 1874–1875; 1876–1883 |
James Mirams | Collingwood | 1876–1886; 1887–1889 |
Thompson Moore | Mandurang | 1871–1880; 1883–1886 |
James Munro | Carlton | 1874–1880; 1881–1883; 1886–1892 |
John Nimmo | Emerald Hill | 1877–1892 |
William O'Hea | Polwarth & South Grenville | 1859–1861; 1877–1880; 1880–1881 |
John Orr | Moira | 1862–1867; 1872–1874; 1877–1880 |
John O'Shanassy | Belfast | 1856–1865; 1877–1883 |
James Patterson | Castlemaine | 1870–1895 |
James Purves | Mornington | 1872–1880 |
Robert Ramsay | East Bourke | 1870–1882 |
John Rees | Grant | 1877–1889 |
Richard Richardson | Creswick | 1874–1886; 1889–1894 |
Henry Sainsbury | Creswick | 1877–1880 |
James Service | Maldon | 1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886 |
George Sharpe | Moira | 1877–1880 |
Alexander Kennedy Smith | East Melbourne | 1877–1881 |
George Paton Smith [k] | Boroondara | 1866–1871; 1874–1877 |
John Smith [l] | West Bourke | 1856–1879 |
Louis Smith | Richmond | 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880; 1880–1883; 1886–1894 |
William Collard Smith | Ballarat West | 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894 |
Frederick Leopold Smyth | North Gippsland | 1866–1875; 1877–1880 |
Joseph Storey | North Melbourne | 1877–1881 |
Albert Tucker | Fitzroy | 1874–1900 |
William Tytherleigh | Normanby | 1877–1880 |
Henry Roberts Williams | Mandurang | 1877–1883; 1889–1902 |
John Woods | Stawell | 1859–1864; 1871–1892 |
Peter Wright | Benambra | 1861–1864; 1877–1880; 1886–1889 |
Charles Young | Kyneton Boroughs | 1874–1892 |
Ephraim Zox | East Melbourne | 1877–1899 |
Gavan Duffy was Speaker, John James was Chairman of Committees.
- [a] Blackham resigned in July 1877,[3] replaced by Angus Mackay the same month.
- [b] Dwyer left Parliament around November 1879, replaced by Joseph Jones who was sworn-in in December 1879.
- [c] Farrell resigned around May 1878; replaced by Charles Henry Pearson, sworn-in July 1878.
- [d] King died 13 February 1879; replaced by William Clark, sworn-in July 1879.
- [e] Levien was unseated in December 1877 replaced by John Ince the same month.
- [f] Macartney died 2 June 1878; replaced by Francis Mason, sworn-in July 1878.
- [g] McCulloch resigned around May 1878; replaced by James Francis, sworn-in July 1878.
- [h] Macgregor resigned around June 1879; replaced by Cuthbert Robert Blackett, sworn-in July 1879.
- [i] McMahon resigned in February 1878, replaced by Bryan O'Loghlen the same month.
- [j] Macpherson resigned July 1878; replaced by John Serjeant, sworn-in August 1878.
- [k] G. P. Smith died 6 December 1877, replaced by Robert Murray Smith who was elected on 24 December 1877,[4] sworn-in in February 1878.
- [l] J. Smith died 30 January 1879, replaced by Alfred Deakin who was sworn-in in July 1879.
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References
- ↑ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ↑ "Blackham Resigns". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 7 July 1877. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ↑ The Argus 24 December 1877
- Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- Victorian Hansard, Session 1877–8 (PDF). XXVI. John Ferres, Melb. 1877.
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