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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1871–1874

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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871 to the elections of 25 March; 9, 22 April 1874.[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 members term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
Name Electorate Term in Office
William Bates Collingwood 1868–1874
William Bayles Villiers & Heytesbury 1864–1880
Thomas Bent Brighton 1871–1894; 1900–1909
Graham Berry Geelong West 1861–1865; 1869–1886
Lawrence Bourke Kilmore 1868–1874
Robert Burrowes Sandhurst 1866–1877; 1880–1893
John Burtt North Melbourne 1864–1874
James Casey Mandurang 1861–1862; 1863–1880
William Champ [a] East Bourke Boroughs 1871–1873
Alfred Clark Williamstown 1871–1887
William Clarke Grenville 1871–1877
Edward Cohen East Melbourne 1861–1865; 1868–1877
Thomas Cope Normanby 1868–1880
John Branscombe Crews South Bourke 1858–1859; 1864–1865; 1868–1877
George Cunningham South Grant 1864–1867; 1868–1874; 1881–1886
John Curtain North Melbourne 1871–1877
Benjamin George Davies Avoca 1861–1880
Charles Duffy Dalhousie 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
James Farrell Castlemaine 1866–1878
Thomas Fellows [b] St Kilda 1856–1858; 1868–1872
James Fergusson South Bourke 1871–1874; 1877–1880
James Francis Richmond 1859–1874; 1878–1884
William Fraser Maryborough 1871–1877
John Masters Garratt Geelong East 1871–1877
Duncan Gillies Maryborough 1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1889
James Macpherson Grant Avoca 1856–1870; 1871–1885
Patrick Hanna Murray Boroughs 1866–1877
George Harker Collingwood 1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874
John Rout Hopkins South Grant 1864–1867; 1871–1877; 1892–1894
John James Ballarat East 1869–1870; 1871–1886
Robert de Bruce Johnstone Geelong West 1870–1881
Joseph Jones Ballarat West 1871–1875; 1876–1877; 1879–1880
George Kerferd Ovens 1864–1886
Mark Last King West Bourke 1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Edward Langton West Melbourne 1866–1867; 1868–1877
Jonas Levien South Grant 1871–1877; 1880–1906
William Lobb East Bourke 1868–1874
Francis Longmore Ripon & Hampden 1864–1883; 1894–1897
James MacBain Wimmera 1864–1880
James McCulloch [c] Mornington 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
John MacGregor Rodney 1862–1874
Angus Mackay Sandhurst 1868–1880; 1883–1886
Martin McKenna Kyneton Boroughs 1868–1874
William McLellan Ararat 1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon West Melbourne 1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
John MacPherson Dundas 1864–1865; 1866–1878
Francis Mason South Gippsland 1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902
Thompson Moore Mandurang 1871–1880; 1883–1886
Michael O'Grady Villiers & Heytesbury 1861–1868; 1870–1876
James Patterson Castlemaine 1870–1895
Thomas Phillips Creswick 1871–1874
William Plummer Warrnambool 1866–1874
Robert Ramsay East Bourke 1870–1882
John Richardson Geelong East 1861–1876
John Carre Riddell West Bourke 1860–1877
William Robertson Polwarth & South Grenville 1871–1874; 1880; 1881–1886
Thomas Russell [d] Grenville 1868–1873
George Verney Smith Ovens 1864–1877
John Smith West Bourke 1856–1879
Louis Smith Richmond 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880;
1880–1883; 1886–1894
William Collard Smith Ballarat West 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Frederick Smyth North Gippsland 1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880
Howard Spensley [e] Portland 1871–1873
James Stephen St Kilda 1870–1874
James Syme Stewart Creswick 1871–1877; 1889
David Thomas Sandridge 1868–1876
William Vale Collingwood 1864–1869; 1869–1874; 1880–1881
Robert Walker Crowlands 1871–1877
Frederick Walsh East Melbourne 1868–1874; 1881–1883
Robert Walsh Ballarat East 1871–1874
William Watkins Evelyn 1866–1874
John Whiteman Emerald Hill 1866–1867; 1868–1877
William Williams Maldon 1867–1874
William Wilson Ararat 1866–1874; 1881–1883
William Witt [f] The Murray 1868–1872; 1874–1877
John Woods Crowlands 1859–1864; 1871–1892
Henry Wrixon Belfast 1868–1877; 1880–1894
William Zeal Castlemaine 1864–1865; 1871–1874
[a] Champ resigned in May 1873, replaced by George Higinbotham in a by-election the same month.
[b] Fellows left Parliament December 1872, replaced by Robert Murray Smith in an 1873 by-election.
[c] McCulloch resigned around March 1872, replaced by James Purves in a March 1872 by-election.[2]
[d] Russell resigned in January 1873 replaced by John Montgomery in a February by-election.[3]
[e] Spensley left Parliament around May 1873, replaced by Thomas Must in a May 1873 by-election.
[f] Witt resigned July 1872, replaced by John Orr in a by-election the same month

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

References

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  1. ^ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  2. ^ "The Mornington Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 27 March 1872. p. 5.
  3. ^ "The Ministerial Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 February 1873. p. 5.