This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as appointed to the Council of 1853 or elected at the 1853 election (main table). Members added in 1855 are noted in a separate section below.
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).
Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that electorate. Name Type Electoral district (or Office) Term in Office Thomas Turner à Beckett nominee 1852–1856; 1858–1878 Andrew Aldcorn nominee 1853 Joseph Anderson nominee 1852–1856 George Annand elected North Bourke 1853–1855 William Burnley elected North Bourke 1853–1856 William Campbell elected Loddon 1851–1854; 1862–1882 James Cassell office-bearing nominee (Collector of Customs) 1853 Hugh Childers office-bearing nominee (Auditor-General 1852–1853) 1852–1856 Andrew Clarke office-bearing nominee (Surveyor General) 1853–1856 George Ward Cole elected Gipps' Land 1853–1855; 1859–1879 James Cowie elected Geelong 1853–1854; 1856–1858 James Croke office-bearing nominee (Solicitor-General) 1852–1854 John Dane elected South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington 1853–1854 Edward Nucella Emmett nominee 1853 John Fawkner elected Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey 1851–1869 John Foster office-bearing nominee (Colonial Secretary) 1853–1854 Adolphus Goldsmith elected Ripon, Hampden, Grenville & Polwarth 1851–1853 John Goodman elected Loddon 1853–1856 James Graham nominee 1853–1854; 1867–1886 Augustus Greeves elected City of Melbourne 1853–1856 Charles Griffith elected (nom. 1851–52) Normanby, Dundas and Follett 1851–1852; 1853–1856 William Haines elected (nom. 1851–52) Grant 1851–1852; 1853–1856; 1865–1866 James Henty elected Portland 1853–1882 Matthew Hervey elected Murray 1853–1865 William Highett nominee 1853–1856; 1857–1880 John Hodgson elected City of Melbourne 1853–1860 Henry Langlands elected City of Melbourne 1853 Henry Miller elected South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington 1851–1866 William Mitchell office-bearing nominee (Chief Commissioner of Police) 1853; 1856–1858; 1859–1884 William Mollison elected Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey 1853–1856 Francis Murphy elected Murray 1851–1853; 1853–1856; 1872–1876 James Murphy elected City of Melbourne 1853–1855 John Myles elected Grant 1852–1856 Mark Nicholson elected Belfast and Warrnambool 1853–1854 William Nicholson elected North Bourke 1852–1856 Patrick O'Brien elected Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1853–1856 John O'Shanassy elected City of Melbourne 1851–1856; 1868–1874 James Frederick Palmer elected Normanby, Dundas and Follett 1851–1870 Edward Stone Parker nominee 1853–1854 Robert Pohlman office-bearing nominee (Master in Equity) 1851–1854; 1855–1856 John Carre Riddell nominee 1852–1856 Andrew Russell nominee 1851–1856 William Rutledge elected Villiers and Heytesbury 1851–1854 John Smith elected City of Melbourne 1851–1856 Peter Snodgrass elected Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1851–1856 William Splatt elected Wimmera 1851–1854 William Stawell office-bearing nominee (Attorney-General) 1851–1856 Frederick Stevens elected Belfast and Warrnambool 1853–1854 James Strachan elected Geelong 1851–1866; 1866–1874 Alexander Thomson elected Geelong 1852–1854 James Thomson elected Ripon, Hampden, Grenville & Polwarth 1853–1854 Thomas Wilkinson elected Portland 1851–1856 George Winter elected Villiers and Heytesbury 1853–1854 William Wright office-bearing nominee (Chief Commissioner of Gold Fields) 1853–1856
Aldcorn resigned 24 November 1853; replaced by James McCulloch (non-office-bearing nominee) from 1 August 1854 Annand resigned July 1855; replaced by Thomas Embling, by-election Sep. 1855 Campbell resigned May 1854; replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows, by-election Sep. 1854 Childers was Auditor-General until 5 December 1853 replaced by Edward Grimes from 8 December 1853. Childers was Collector of Customs from 5 December 1853 Cole resigned May 1855; replaced by John King by-election Nov. 1855 Cowie resigned May 1854, replaced by James Harrison, by-election Nov. 1854 Croke resigned January 1854, replaced by Robert Molesworth from 4 January 1854Statistical register of the State of Victoria, 1908 Dane resigned November 1854; replaced by Henry Samuel Chapman, by-election Feb. 1855 Emmett resigned September 1853; replaced by Andrew Knight on 6 September 1853; Knight resigned 8 March 1854; replaced by Charles Bradshaw on 1 August 1854 Foster resigned December 1854, replaced by William Haines as Colonial Secretary on 12 December 1854 Goldsmith resigned November 1853, replaced by John Thompson Charlton Graham resigned July 1854, replaced by Donald Kennedy from September 1854Sweetman, p.176 Haines resigned Dec. 1854; replaced by Horatio Wills, January 1855 Langlands was unseated; replaced by successful appealer Frederick James Sargood, Oct. 1853 Mitchell resigned November 1853, replaced by Charles MacMahon James Murphy resigned Sep. 1855; replaced by Thomas Rae by-election Nov. 1855 Nicholson resigned May 1854; replaced by George Horne, by-election Sep. 1854 Parker resigned August 1854; replaced by Alfred Ross 12 August 1854Sweetman, p.179 Pohlman resigned as nominee October 1854, elected for Ripon and Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth, January 1855. Pohlman replaced by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the council on 16 October 1854 Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855 Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854 Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854 Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854 James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Colin Campbell, by-election 1854 Winter resigned Aug. 1854; replaced by William Forlonge, by-election, Oct. 1854
Members from 1855 In 1855, five new electorates were created, a total of eight elected members and one non-office bearing nominee were added to the council.Sweetman, p.110 Nominations took place on 10 November 1855, Humffray and Lalor were elected unopposed. An office-bearing nominee (Treasurer) was added 28 November 1855.Sweetman, p.181 Name Type Electoral district / Position Term in Office Robert Benson elected Sandhurst 1855–1856 Daniel Cameron elected Ovens 1855–1856 James Macpherson Grant elected Sandhurst 1855–1856 John Basson Humffray elected Ballaarat 1855–1856 Peter Lalor elected Ballaarat 1855–1856 Duncan Longden elected Avoca 1855–1856 John D. Owens nominee 1855–1856 Vincent Pyke elected Castlemaine 1855–1856 Charles Sladen office-bearing nominee (Treasurer) 1855–1856 James Atkin Wheeler elected Castlemaine 1855–1856
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