6th Parliament of South Australia

Sixth Parliament of South Australia
← 5th 7th →
Old Parliament House (1872)
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of South Australia
Meeting place	Old Parliament House
Term	27 May 1870 – 23 November 1871
Election	28 March – 5 April 1870
Legislative Council
Members	18
President	John Morphett
House of Assembly
Members	36
Speaker	George Strickland Kingston
Sessions
1st 27 May 1870 – 13 January 1871 2nd 28 July 1871 – 23 November 1871

The 6th 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: Edwin Gordon Blackmore

Members elected in 1869 are marked with an asterisk (*).

▌ Henry Ayers ▌ John Baker* ▌ John Crozier ▌ John Dunn, sen.* ▌ Thomas Elder* ▌ Thomas English* ▌ John Hodgkiss ▌ Thomas Hogarth ▌ Henry Mildred

▌ William Milne* ▌ William Morgan ▌ John Morphett ▌ Alexander Borthwick Murray* ▌ John Bentham Neales ▌ William Parkin ▌ Philip Santo ▌ William Storrie* ▌ William Wedd Tuxford

Legislative Council President John Morphett

All 36 seats in the lower house were contested in the 28 March – 5 April 1870.

Barossa ▌ Richard Chaffey Baker ▌ Walter Duffield The Burra ▌ John Hart, sen. ▌ Charles Mann East Adelaide ▌ Robert Cottrell ▌ David Murray East Torrens ▌ Alexander Hay ▌ Henry Hay Mildred Encounter Bay ▌ Arthur Fydell Lindsay ▌ Emil Wentzel Flinders ▌ Hampton Gleeson ▌ Alfred Watts

Gumeracha ▌ Arthur Blyth ▌ Ebenezer Ward Light ▌ James Pearce ▌ James White Mount Barker ▌ John Cheriton ▌ James Garden Ramsay Noarlunga ▌ John Carr ▌ James Stewart Onkaparinga ▌ Friedrich Edouard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff ▌ Thomas Playford Port Adelaide ▌ Henry Kent Hughes ▌ William Quin

Stanley ▌ Henry Edward Bright ▌ George Strickland Kingston The Sturt ▌ John Lindsay ▌ William Townsend Victoria ▌ Neville Blyth ▌ Park Laurie West Adelaide ▌ Patrick Boyce Coglin ▌ John Darling, sen. West Torrens ▌ William Henry Bean ▌ James Penn Boucaut Yatala ▌ Wentworth Cavenagh ▌ Lavington Glyde

House of Assembly Speaker George Strickland Kingston

• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1869–1873
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1870–1871

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