This is a list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1871 to 1873, as elected at the 1871 colonial elections held between 8 July 1871 and 6 September 1871 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).
Name Electorate Term in office Robert Travers Atkin East Moreton 1868–1869; 1870–1872 Joshua Peter Bell Northern Downs 1862–1879 John Bramston Burnett 1871–1873 Archibald Berdmore Buchanan Warrego 1870; 1871–1873 Charles Clark Warwick 1871–1873 Benjamin Cribb Town of Ipswich 1861–1867; 1870–1873 Oscar de Satge Clermont 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 George Edmondstone Town of Brisbane 1860–1867; 1869–1877 John Ferrett West Moreton 1860–1863; 1870–1873 Frederick Forbes West Moreton 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 Alexander Fyfe Rockhampton 1870–1873 Charles Graham Clermont 1872–1876 Samuel Griffith East Moreton 1872–1893 William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901 John Handy Town of Brisbane 1870–1871; 1872–1873 William Hemmant East Moreton 1871–1876 John Johnston Town of Ipswich 1870–1872 Henry Jordan East Moreton 1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Henry Edward King Wide Bay 1870–1871; 1871–1873; 1874–1883 Charles Lilley Hamlet of Fortitude Valley 1860–1873 Arthur Macalister Town of Ipswich 1860–1871; 1872–1876 Edward MacDevitt Kennedy 1870–1874 William Miles Maranoa 1864–1873; 1874–1875;1876–1887 Boyd Dunlop Morehead Mitchell 1871–1880; 1883–1896 Berkeley Basil Moreton Burnett 1870–1871; 1873–1875;1883–1888 Kevin O'Doherty Town of Brisbane 1867–1873 Hon Arthur Hunter Palmer Port Curtis 1866–1881 Ratcliffe Pring Town of Brisbane 1860–1862; 1863–1866;1867–1872; 1873–1874;1878–1879 Hon Robert Ramsay Western Downs 1867–1873 Charles Royds Leichhardt 1860–1864; 1868–1872 Edmund Royds Leichhardt 1864–1868; 1872–1875 John Scott Leichhardt 1868, 1870–1888 Walter Jervoise Scott Burnett 1871–1878 Thomas Blacket Stephens Town of South Brisbane 1863–1875 John Malbon Thompson Town of Ipswich 1868–1881 George Thorn West Moreton 1867–1874; 1876–1878;1879–1883; 1887–1888;1893–1902 Edmond Thornton Eastern Downs 1868–1870; 1871–1873 Horace Tozer Wide Bay 1871; 1888–1898 William Henry Walsh Maryborough 1865–1878 Edward Wienholt Western Downs 1870–1875
See also Premier: Arthur Hunter Palmer (1870–1874)
Notes On 29 September 1871, Horace Tozer, member of Wide Bay, resigned to enable for previous member for Wide Bay Henry Edward King (who failed to win Maryborough in the 1871 election) to be re-elected in Wide Bay. On 4 October 1871 King was elected unopposed in the by-election in Wide Bay. On 20 October 1871, Henry Jordan, member for East Moreton, resigned. William Hemmant won the resulting by-election on 4 November 1871. On 24 October 1871, Berkeley Basil Moreton, member for Burnett, resigned. Walter Jervoise Scott won the resulting by-election on 7 November 1871. On 11 January 1872, Ratcliffe Pring, member for Town of Brisbane, resigned. John Handy won the resulting by-election on 27 January 1872. On 30 January 1872, Charles Royds, the member for Leichhardt, resigned. His brother Edmund Royds won the resulting by-election on 20 February 1872. On 7 March 1872, Robert Travers Atkin, member for East Moreton, resigned due to ill health (he died two months later). Samuel Griffith won the resulting by-election on 3 April 1872. On 9 April 1872, Oscar de Satge, the member for Clermont, resigned. Charles Graham won the resulting by-election on 30 April 1872. On 9 October 1872, John Johnston, the member for Ipswich, died. Arthur Macalister won the resulting by-election on 22 October 1872.
References
Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament) Brisbane Courier variously over 1871–1873