Members of the Queensland Legislative Council, 1880–1889

This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1 January 1880 to 31 December 1889. Appointments, made by the Governor of Queensland, were for life, although many members for one reason or another resigned.

The chamber grew in size from 30 to 38 members during the course of the decade.

Office bearers

President of the Legislative Council:

Joshua Peter Bell (3 April 1879—20 December 1881)
Arthur Hunter Palmer (24 December 1881—20 March 1898)

Chairman of Committees:

Daniel Foley Roberts (30 May 1860—26 July 1889)
Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (31 July 1889—31 December 1892)

Members

Name	Date appointed	Date left	Reason for leaving
William Aplin	1880-10-19	1901-02-18
Joshua Peter Bell	1879-04-03	1881-12-20	Death
William Box	1874-01-02	1904-01-26
Frederic Brentnall	1886-04-17	1922-03-23
Alfred Henry Brown	1874-01-12	1882-01-26	Resignation
Irwin Browne	1863-07-03	1882-08-14	Unknown
Charles Hardie Buzacott	1879-01-21	1882-07-05	Resignation
James Cowlishaw	1878-04-18	1922-03-15
John Deane	1889-07-31	1913-10-27
George Edmondstone	1877-05-12	1883-02-23	Death
John Clark Foote	1877-05-12	1895-08-18
Edward Barrow Forrest	1882-08-15	1899-03-08
William Forrest	1883-05-13	1903-04-23
James Garrick^[2]	1883-11-13	1894-08-28
James Gibbon	1866-02-22	1887-02-19	Seat vacated
William Graham	1880-08-05	1892-06-07
Augustus Gregory	1882-11-10	1905-06-25
Francis Thomas Gregory	1874-01-02	1888-10-23	Death
Frederick Hart	1872-07-11	1915-07-15
William Hobbs	1861-04-26	1880-10-18	Resignation
Frederick Holberton	1885-07-04	1907-09-09
Louis Hope	1862-04-24	1882-11-01	Resignation
Francis Ivory	1879-09-15	1881-07-01	Resignation
George King	1882-01-26	1890-03-19
James Lalor	1888-08-23	1921-08-11
William Lambert	1872-03-15	1901-12-03
John MacAnsh	1886-04-17	1896-08-01
Thomas MacDonald-Paterson	1885-04-22	1896-03-11
John McDougall	1860-05-01	1895-09-13
Peter MacPherson	1881-07-01	1913-09-12
Charles Marks	1888-11-28	1922-03-23
Charles Mein	1872-04-26	1883-07-11	Resignation
Charles Melbourne	1878-04-18	1886-08-18	Seat vacated
Boyd Dunlop Morehead	1880-12-31	1883-08-03	Transferred to Assembly
Berkeley Basil Moreton	1888-05-25	1891-06-25
John Mullen	1872-04-26	1883-07-11	Seat vacated
Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior	1866-02-22	1892-12-31
Kevin O'Doherty	1877-05-12	1885-11-04	Resignation
Arthur Hunter Palmer	1881-12-24	1898-03-20
William Pettigrew	1877-05-12	1894-06-23
William Grene Power	1883-09-19	1903-08-14
Daniel Foley Roberts	1860-05-23	1889-07-26	Death
Alexander Raff	1884-08-14	1910-06-10
Thomas Rome	1881-07-01	1882-01-24	Resignation
Gordon Sandeman	1874-01-02	1886-08-18	Seat vacated
John Scott	1888-08-23	1890-06-26
Henry Simpson	1868-07-29	1882-04-29	Resignation
James Thorneloe Smith	1888-08-23	1902-03-14
Joseph Smyth	1882-05-05	1910-07-16
James Swan	1878-04-18	1891-05-26
James Taylor^[1]	1871-11-04	1893-08-17
William Taylor	1886-04-17	1922-03-23
Andrew Thynne	1882-01-26	1922-03-23
William Thornton	1882-10-30	1884-06-27	Death
John Sargent Turner	1878-04-18	1900-07-29
William Henry Walsh	1879-02-20	1888-04-05	Death
William Duckett White	1861-04-26	1880-08-05	Resignation
Andrew Heron Wilson	1883-09-19	1906-08-29
Walter Horatio Wilson	1885-07-04	1902-02-28
Henry Conwell Wood	1886-04-17	1902-12-31

¹ James Taylor resigned from the Council on 10 January 1881 but was reappointed on 1 July 1881.

² James Garrick was previously a member of the Legislative Council from 13 November 1869 until 8 December 1870.

References

Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)

Preceded by 1870–1879	Queensland Legislative Council 1880–1889	Succeeded by 1890–1899