Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1851–1856

This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856.[1][2] The 1851 Electoral Act increased the number of members in the Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected.[3]

Name Appointed or District Years in office
George Allen Appointed 1845–1856
Thomas Barker Appointed 1853–1856
George Barney Appointed 1843–1856
Alexander Berry Appointed 1843–1856
James Brindley Bettington Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh 1851–1853
Francis Edward Bigge Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa 1851–1852
James William Bligh County of Bathurst 1851–1856
George Bowman Counties of Northumberland and Hunter 1851–1856
William Bowman Cumberland Boroughs 1843–1851; 1853–1856
William Bradley County of Argyle 1843–1846; 1851–1856
Edward Broadhurst Appointed 1851–1856
Robert Campbell City of Sydney 1851–1856
James Chisholm Counties of King and Georgiana 1851–1856; 1865–1888
William Harvie Christie Appointed 1852–1856
Daniel Cooper Counties of Murray and St Vincent 1849–1851; 1855–1856
Charles Cowper County of Durham 1843–1850; 1851–1856; 1860
Edward Cox Appointed 1851–1855
John Bayley Darvall County of Cumberland 1844–1856
Alfred Denison Appointed 1851–1851
John Dobie Appointed 1851–1855
Stuart Donaldson County of Durham; Sydney Hamlets 1848–1853; 1855–1856
Henry Grattan Douglass Counties of Northumberland and Hunter 1851–1856; 1856–1861
William Dumaresq Counties of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh 1843–1848; 1851–1856
Daniel Egan Pastoral District of Maneroo 1854–1856
Charles Wray Finch Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh 1853–1856
Robert Fitzgerald County of Cumberland 1849–1856; 1856–1865
Edward Flood North Eastern Boroughs 1851–1856; 1879–1888
John Gibbes Appointed 1843–1855
Arthur Hodgson County of Stanley 1854
John Holden Cumberland Boroughs; Appointed 1851–1853; 1853–1856
Arthur Holroyd Western Boroughs 1851–1856
Thomas Hood Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs 1855–1856; 1856–1861
Henry Hughes Appointed 1851–1853
Thomas Icely Appointed 1843–1856
Arthur Jeffreys Pastoral District of Maneroo 1851–1854
Richard Jones Stanley Boroughs 1829–1843; 1850–1852
Phillip Parker King Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie 1839; 1850–1851; 1851–1856
John Lamb City of Sydney 1844–1851; 1851–1853
John Dunmore Lang County of Stanley 1843–1847; 1850–1851; 1854–1856
George Farquhar Leslie Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs 1851–1855
Alexander Longmore Appointed 1851
James Macarthur County of Camden, Western Division 1839–1843; 1848–1856; 1866–1867
William Macarthur Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling 1849–1855; 1864–1882
George Macleay Pastoral District of Murrumbidgee 1851–1856
William John Macleay Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling 1855–1856
William Montagu Manning Appointed 1851–1856
Matthew Henry Marsh Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1851–1855
James Martin Counties of Cook and Westmoreland 1848–1856
Robert George Massie Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1855
William Colburn Mayne Appointed 1852–1856
Francis Merewether Appointed 1851–1856
James Mitchell Appointed 1855–1856
Augustus Morris Pastoral Districts of Liverpool Plains and Gwydir 1851–1856
Terence Aubrey Murray Southern Boroughs 1843–1856
George Nichols Northumberland Boroughs 1848–1856
Charles Nicholson County of Argyle 1843–1856
George Oakes Town of Parramatta 1848–1856; 1879–1881
Alick Osborne Counties of Murray and St. Vincent 1851–1855
Henry Osborne County of Camden, Eastern Division 1851–1856
Alexander Park County of Durham 1853–1856
Henry Parker Appointed 1846–1856
Henry Parkes City of Sydney 1854–1856
John Plunkett Appointed 1836–1841; 1843–1856; 1857–1858; 1861–1869
John Richardson County of Stanley; Stanley Boroughs 1851–1854; 1855–1856
Campbell Drummond Riddell Appointed 1843–1858
Thomas Rusden Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay 1855–1856
Henry Stuart Russell Stanley Boroughs 1853–1855
Saul Samuel Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington 1854–1856; 1872–1880
Thomas Smart Sydney Hamlets 1851–1855; 1870–1881
Richard Joseph Smith Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa 1853–1856
William Spain Appointed 1851–1852; 1856–1858
John Stirling Appointed 1854–1856
William Suttor Sr. Counties of Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington,
Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington 		1843–1854
Edward Deas Thomson Appointed 1837–1854; 1856–1879
William Thurlow City of Sydney 1853–1855
Edward Wolstenholme Ward Appointed 1855–1856; 1861–1865
William Wentworth City of Sydney 1843–1854; 1861–1862
James Robert Wilshire City of Sydney 1855–1856

References

  1. ↑ "Former Members Index A-Z". Parliament of New South Wales.
  2. ↑ "Appointed Prior to the Date of Responsible Government in 1856" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record: Part Three – Members of the Legislative Council (Parliament of New South Wales): 1–3. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  3. ↑ An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales after the separation of the District of Port Phillip therefrom into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council., Act No. 48 of 2 May 1851. Retrieved on 9 September 2014.
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