Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as appointed to the inaugural Council of 1851 or elected at the 1851 election.

From 1851 to 1856 the original Legislative Council was unicameral (a single chamber) and consisted of Electoral districts. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house).

Name Type Electoral district (or office) Term of Office office-bearing nominee (Solicitor-General) 1851–1852 elected Loddon 1851–1854, 1862–1882 elected North Bourke 1851–1852 nominee 1851–1852 office-bearing nominee (Auditor-General) 1851–1852 elected Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey 1851–1869 elected Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth 1851–1853 nominee 1851–1852, 1853–1856 nominee 1851–1852, 1853–1856, 1865–1866 elected 1851–1852 office-bearing nominee (Colonial Secretary) 1851–1853 elected Grant 1851–1852 elected South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington 1851–1866 elected Murray 1851–1853, 1853–1856, 1872–1876 elected Belfast and Warrnambool 1851–1852 elected 1851–1856, 1868–1874 elected Normanby, Dundas and Follett 1851–1870 office-bearing nominee (Master in Equity) 1851–1854, 1855–1856 elected Geelong 1851–1852 nominee 1851–1852 nominee 1851–1856 elected Villiers and Heytesbury 1851–1854 elected North Bourke 1851–1856 elected Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1851–1856 elected Wimmera 1851–1854 office-bearing nominee (Attorney-General) 1851–1856 elected Geelong 1851–1866, 1866–1874 elected Gipps' Land 1851–1853, 1864–1872 elected 1851–1853 elected Portland 1851–1856

Redmond Barry resigned June 1852, replaced as Solicitor-General from 13 April 1852 by Edward Williams. Williams was replaced by James Croke from 21 July 1852. Dight died 9 October 1852, replaced by William Nicholson, by-election November 1852 Dunlop died 21 June 1852, replaced by Joseph Anderson on 14 July 1852 Ebden resigned October 1852, replaced by Hugh Childers, from 26 October 1852. Griffith resigned June 1852, replaced by John Riddell on 21 June 1852Sweetman 1920, p.169 Haines resigned August 1852, replaced by Archibald Michie on 26 October 1852Sweetman 1920, p.170 Johnston resigned December 1852; replaced by Augustus Greeves, by-election January 1853 Mercer resigned December 1852; replaced by John Myles, by-election December 1852 Osborne resigned December 1852; replaced by Lauchlan Mackinnon, by-election December 1852 Robinson died 14 May 1852; replaced by Alexander Thomson, by-election June 1852 Ross resigned July 1852, replaced by Thomas Turner à Beckett, nominee, from 14 July 1852

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