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).
Name Electorate Term in office Archibald Archer Rockhampton 1867–1869; 1878–1886;1888–1896 Robert Travers Atkin ClermontEast Moreton 1868–1869; 1870–1872 Joshua Peter Bell Northern Downs 1862–1879 John Robinson Benson Clermont 1870–1870 Rt Hon John Bright Kennedy 1869–1870 Archibald Berdmore Buchanan Mitchell 1870; 1871–1873 Oscar de Satge Clermont 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 John Douglas East Moreton 1863–1866; 1867–1868;1875–1880 George Edmondstone Town of Brisbane 1860–1867; 1869–1877 Gilbert Eliott Wide Bay 1860–1870 John Ferrett West Moreton 1860–1863; 1870–1873 Thomas Henry FitzGerald Kennedy 1867–1869; 1873–1875 Frederick Forbes West Moreton 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 Arthur Francis East Moreton 1867–1870 Simon Fraser Town of Brisbane 1868–1870; 1873–1878;1880–1888 Alexander Fyfe Rockhampton 1870–1873 William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901 Charles Haly Burnett 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1869–1871; 1876–1878 Hon Arthur Hodgson Warrego 1868–1869 Samuel Hodgson West Moreton 1868–1870 Henry Jordan East Moreton 1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Edward Lamb Mitchell 1867–1869 Charles Lilley Hamlet of Fortitude Valley 1860–1873 Arthur Macalister Eastern Downs 1860–1871; 1872–1876 Thomas McIlwraith Warrego 1870–1871; 1873–1886;1888–1896 Robert Mackenzie Burnett 1860–1869 William Miles Maranoa 1864–1873; 1874–1875;1876–1887 Henry Milford 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 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 On 11 December 1868, John Douglas, member for East Moreton, resigned. Henry Jordan won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1868. On 29 January 1869, Robert Travers Atkin, member for Clermont, resigned. Oscar de Satge won the resulting by-election on 4 March 1869. 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. 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. 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. 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. On 23 November 1869, Arthur Hodgson, the member for Warrego, resigned. Thomas McIlwraith won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1870. 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. 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. On 4 April 1870, Oscar de Satge, member for the Clermont resigned. John Robinson Benson won the resulting by-election on 4 May 1870. 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. On 13 June 1870, Samuel Hodgson, member for West Moreton, resigned. John Ferrett won the resulting by-election on 25 June 1870.
References
Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860–1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001. Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)