Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 25 March; 9, 22 April 1874 to the elections of 11 May 1877.^[1] Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

Victorian Legislative Assembly districts, 1859-1877

Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.

Name	Electorate	Term in Office
William Bayles	Villiers & Heytesbury	1864–1880
Thomas Bent	Brighton	1871–1894; 1900–1909
Graham Berry	Geelong West ^[x]	1861–1865; 1869–1886
Robert Burrowes	Sandhurst	1866–1877; 1880–1893
Ewen Hugh Cameron	Evelyn	1874–1914
Colin Campbell	Crowlands ^[x]	1856–1859; 1874–1877
Michael Carroll ^[a]	Ararat	1874–1875
James Casey	Mandurang	1861–1862; 1863–1880
Alfred Clark	Williamstown	1871–1887
William Clarke	Grenville	1871–1877
Edward Cohen	East Melbourne	1861–1865; 1868–1877
Joseph Connor	Polwarth & South Grenville	1864–1871; 1874–1877; 1882–1886
Thomas Cope	Normanby	1868–1880
George Selth Coppin	East Melbourne	1874–1877; 1883–1889
John Branscombe Crews	South Bourke	1858–1859; 1864–1865; 1868–1877
John Curtain	North Melbourne	1871–1877
Benjamin George Davies	Avoca	1861–1880
Edward Dixon	St Kilda	1874–1880; 1889–1894
John Gavan Duffy	Dalhousie	1874–1886; 1887–1904
John Everard ^[b]	Collingwood	1858–1859; 1861; 1864; 1868–1871; 1874
James Farrell	Castlemaine	1866–1878
James Francis ^[c]	Richmond	1859–1874; 1878–1884
Simon Fraser	Rodney	1874–1883
William Fraser	Maryborough ^[x]	1871–1877
John Masters Garratt	Geelong East ^[x]	1871–1877
Duncan Gillies	Maryborough ^[x]	1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1889
Frederick Race Godfrey	East Bourke	1874–1877
James Macpherson Grant	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
Patrick Hanna	Murray Boroughs ^[x]	1866–1877
George Higinbotham ^[d]	East Bourke Boroughs	1861–1861; 1862–1871; 1873–1876
John Rout Hopkins	South Grant ^[x]	1864–1867; 1871–1877; 1892–1894
Thomas Hunt	Kilmore ^[x]	1874–1892; 1903–1904
Robert Inglis	Richmond	1874–1877
John James	Ballarat East	1869–1870; 1871–1886
Robert de Bruce Johnstone	Geelong West ^[x]	1870–1881
Joseph Jones ^[e]	Ballarat West	1871–1875; 1876–1877; 1879–1880
George Kerferd	Ovens	1864–1886
Peter Lalor	South Grant ^[x]	1856–1871; 1874–1889
Edward Langton	West Melbourne	1866–1867; 1868–1877
Jonas Levien	South Grant ^[x]	1871–1877; 1880–1906
Francis Longmore	Ripon & Hampden	1864–1883; 1894–1897
James MacBain	Wimmera	1864–1880
James McCulloch	Warrnambool	1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
Townsend McDermott	Ballarat East	1874–1877
Angus Mackay	Sandhurst	1868–1880; 1883–1886
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon	West Melbourne	1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
John MacPherson	Dundas	1864–1865; 1866–1878
John Madden ^[f]	West Bourke	1874–1875; 1876–1883
Francis Mason	South Gippsland	1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902
Thompson Moore	Mandurang	1871–1880; 1883–1886
James Munro	North Melbourne	1874–1880; 1881–1883; 1886–1892
Thomas Must	Portland	1873–1877
Michael O'Grady ^[g]	Villiers & Heytesbury	1861–1868; 1870–1876
James Patterson	Castlemaine	1870–1895
Mark Pope ^[h]	Grenville	1862–1865
James Purves	Mornington	1872–1880
Robert Ramsay	East Bourke	1870–1882
John Richardson ^[i]	Geelong East ^[x]	1861–1876
Richard Richardson	Creswick	1874–1886; 1889–1894
John Carre Riddell	West Bourke	1860–1877
James Service	Maldon	1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
George Paton Smith	South Bourke	1866–1871; 1874–1877
George Verney Smith	Ovens	1864–1877
John Smith	West Bourke	1856–1879
Robert Murray Smith	St Kilda	1873–1877; 1878–1882; 1894–1900
William Collard Smith	Ballarat West	1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Frederick Smyth ^[j]	North Gippsland	1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880
James Syme Stewart	Creswick	1871–1877; 1889
James Forester Sullivan ^[k]	Collingwood	1861–1871; 1874–1876
David Thomas ^[l]	Sandridge	1868–1876
Albert Tucker	Collingwood	1874–1900
Robert Walker	Castlemaine	1871–1877
John Whiteman	Emerald Hill	1866–1867; 1868–1877
William Witt	The Murray ^[x]	1868–1872; 1874–1877
John Woods	Crowlands ^[x]	1859–1864; 1871–1892
Henry Wrixon	Belfast	1868–1877; 1880–1894
Charles Young	Kyneton Boroughs	1874–1892

Charles MacMahon was Speaker, Benjamin Davies was Chairman of Committees.

^[a] Carrol forfeited his seat in May 1875, replaced by David Gaunson May 1875.

^[b] Everard resigned in July 1874, replaced by George Langridge in August 1874.

^[c] Francis resigned in November 1874, replaced by Joseph Bosisto in December 1874.

^[d] Higinbotham resigned in January 1876, replaced by William Mitchell Cook in February 1876.

^[e] Jones left Parliament in October 1875, replaced by George Fincham in November 1875.

^[f] Madden left Parliament in October 1875, replaced by Mark Last King in November 1875.

^[g] O'Grady died 5 January 1876, replaced by Joseph Jones in February 1876.

^[h] Pope died 8 July 1874, replaced by Richard Henry Lock in August 1874.

^[i] Richardson died 12 March 1876, replaced by Charles Kernot in April 1876.

^[j] Smyth resigned c. March 1875, replaced by James McKean from May 1875 until being expelled in July 1876; replaced by Charles Gavan Duffy from August 1876.

^[k] Sullivan died 3 February 1876, replaced by James Mirams in a February 1876 by-election.

^[l] Thomas died 10 July 1876, replaced by John Madden in an August 1876 by-election.

^x = district abolished in 1877

References

↑ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
"Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
Victorian Hansard, Session 1874 (PDF). Vol. 18. John Ferres, Melb. 1874.

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[1] "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

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