5th Parliament of South Australia

Fifth Parliament of South Australia
← 4th 6th →
Old Parliament House (1872)
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of South Australia
Meeting place	Old Parliament House
Term	31 July 1868 – 2 March 1870
Election	6 April – 4 May 1868
Legislative Council
Members	18
President	John Morphett
House of Assembly
Members	36
Speaker	George Strickland Kingston
Sessions
1st 31 July 1868 – 30 January 1869 2nd 30 July 1869 – 23 February 1870

The 5th Parliament of South Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the South Australian state government, composed of the South Australian Legislative Council and the South Australian House of Assembly.

Legislative Council

• President of the Legislative Council: John Morphett
• Clerk of the Legislative Council: Francis Corbet Singleton
• Clerk's assistant and Sergeant-at-arms: Joseph George Atkinson Branthwaite

House of Assembly

• Speaker of the House of Assembly: George Strickland Kingston
• Clerk of the House of Assembly: George William de la Poer Beresford
• Clerk's assistant and Sargeant-at-arms: Simon Pierse Creagh (until 24 December 1869), Edwin Gordon Blackmore (from 24 December 1869)

▌ Henry Ayers* ▌ Charles Hervey Bagot* ▌ John Tuthill Bagot* ▌ John Baker ▌ John Henry Barrow ▌ John Crozier ▌ Thomas Elder ▌ Thomas English* ▌ Charles George Everard

▌ John Hodgkiss ▌ Thomas Hogarth ▌ Henry Mildred ▌ William Morgan* ▌ John Morphett* ▌ William Parkin* ▌ William Peacock ▌ Emanuel Solomon ▌ William Wedd Tuxford*

Legislative Council President John Morphett

7 of the 18 seats in the upper house were contested in the election on 19 March 1869. Members elected in 1869 are marked with an asterisk (*).

All 36 seats in the lower house were contested in the election on 6 April – 4 May 1868.

Barossa ▌ Richard Chaffey Baker ▌ Philip Santo The Burra ▌ James Boucaut ▌ John Bentham Neales East Adelaide ▌ Robert Cottrell ▌ Thomas Reynolds East Torrens ▌ Daniel Fisher ▌ George Pearce Encounter Bay ▌ Neville Blyth ▌ William Everard Flinders ▌ William Ranson Mortlock ▌ Alfred Watts

Gumeracha ▌ Alexander Hay ▌ William Sandover Light ▌ John Hart, sen. ▌ William Lewis Mount Barker ▌ John Cheriton ▌ William Rogers Noarlunga ▌ John Carr ▌ John Colton Onkaparinga ▌ Thomas Playford ▌ William Townsend Port Adelaide ▌ David Bower ▌ Henry Hill

Stanley ▌ Henry Edward Bright ▌ George Strickland Kingston The Sturt ▌ Joseph Fisher ▌ Frederick Spicer Victoria ▌ Henry Kent Hughes ▌ John Riddoch West Adelaide ▌ Henry Robert Fuller ▌ William Knox Simms West Torrens ▌ John Pickering ▌ Henry Bull Templer Strangways Yatala ▌ Wentworth Cavenagh ▌ Lavington Glyde

House of Assembly Speaker George Strickland Kingston

• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1865–1869
• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1869–1873
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1868–1870

• "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836–2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. 24 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011.