Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1873–1877

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1877.

This was the fifth Legislative Council to be elected under the Constitution of 1856, which provided for a house consisting of eighteen members to be elected from the whole colony acting as one electoral district "The Province"; that six members, selected by lot, should be replaced at General Elections after four years, another six to be replaced four years later and thenceforth each member should have a term of twelve years.[1][2][3]

Seven seats were contested – six by the "effluxion of time" (Ayers, Hodgkiss, Hogarth, Mildred, Morphett and Tuxford) and one to replace John Baker, who died the previous May.[4]

Name Time in office Term expires Notes
Henry Ayers 1857–1888
1888–1893
Feb. 1881
John Crozier 1867–1887 Feb. 1877
Walter Duffield 1873–1880 elected Feb. 1873
John Dunn 1869–1877 Feb. 1877
Thomas Elder 1863–1869
1871–1878
Thomas English 1865–1878
1882–1885
William Everard 1873–1878 elected Feb. 1873
Joseph Fisher 1873–1881 Feb. 1881
Alexander Hay 1873–1881 Feb. 1881 elected Feb. 1873
John Hodgkiss 1866–1872
1878–1884
Feb. 1877
Thomas Hogarth 1866–1885
William Milne 1869–1881 Feb. 1881
William Morgan 1867–1884 Feb. 1877
John Bentham Neales 1872–1873 died 1873
Alexander Borthwick Murray 1869–1877 Feb. 1877
William Parkin 1866–1877 Feb. 1877
William Sandover 1873–1885 elected Sep. 1873
Philip Santo 1871–1881 Feb. 1881
William Storrie 1871–1878
Robert Alfred Tarlton 1873–1881 Feb. 1881 elected Feb. 1873

References

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  1. ^ "Colonial Constitutions". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 16 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "The New Parliament". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 26 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Our First Parliament". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 8 March 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "The Elections". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 22 April 1873. p. 1 Supplement: Supplement to the South Australian Register. Retrieved 15 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.