Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia from the elections of 2–19 August 1861 to the elections of October–November 1864.^[1]

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
Robert S. H. Anderson	Emerald Hill	1858–1864
Butler Cole Aspinall	Geelong East	1856–1864; 1866–1870
Kenric Brodribb	St Kilda	1861–1864
William Brodribb ^[a]	Brighton	1861–1862
John Henry Brooke	Geelong West	1856–1864
Robert Bennett	East Bourke	1856–1857; 1859–1864
Graham Berry	Collingwood	1861–1865; 1869–1886; 1892–1897
James Casey ^[d]	Sandhurst	1861–1862; 1863–1880
John Cathie	Ballaarat East	1859–1864
Henry Samuel Chapman ^[b]	Mornington	1858–1859; 1861–1862
James Chapman ^[c]	Castlemaine	1860–1861
Edward Cohen	East Melbourne	1861–1865; 1868–1877
Patrick Costello ^[e]	North Melbourne	1861
Michael James Cummins	South Grant	1861–1864
Benjamin George Davies	Avoca	1861–1880
John Davies	North Melbourne	1861–1864
William Denovan ^[f]	Sandhurst	1861–1862
Charles Jardine Don	Collingwood	1859–1864
Charles Gavan Duffy	Villiers and Heytesbury	1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
John Edwards	Collingwood	1861–1867
John Everard ^[g]	North Gippsland	1858–1859; 1861; 1864; 1868–1871; 1874
Daniel Ratcliffe Flint ^[h]	Ararat	1861–1862
Nicholas Foott	Geelong West	1860–1868
James Francis	Richmond	1859–1874; 1878–1884
William Frazer	Creswick	1859–1870
Robert Gillespie ^[i]	Grenville	1859–1862
Duncan Gillies	Ballaarat West	1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1894; 1897–1903
James Macpherson Grant	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
Wilson Gray ^[j]	Rodney	1860–1862
William Haines	Portland	1856–1858; 1860–1864
Richard Heales	East Bourke Boroughs	1857–1864
George Hedley ^[k]	South Gippsland	1861–1862
John Hood	Belfast	1859–1864
John Houston	Crowlands	1859–1865
John Humffray	Ballaarat East	1856–1864; 1868–1871
Richard Davies Ireland ^[l]	Villiers and Heytesbury	1857–1864; 1866–1867
Richard Davies Ireland ^[m]	Maryborough	1857–1864; 1866–1867
James Johnston	St Kilda	1859–1864
William Jones ^[n]	Evelyn	1860–1863
George Kirk	East Bourke	1861–1864
Ambrose Kyte	East Melbourne	1861–1865; 1867–1867
Peter Lalor	South Grant	1856–1871; 1874–1889
Thomas Lambert	Richmond	1861–1864
George Levey	Normanby	1861–1867
Nathaniel Levi	Maryborough	1861–1865; 1866–1867
Thomas Loader	West Melbourne	1859–1864
John Macadam	Castlemaine	1859–1861; 1861–1864
William Nelson McCann	South Grant	1861–1867
Robert MacDonald	Creswick	1861–1864
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon	West Bourke	1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
Thomas Manifold ^[o]	Warrnambool	1861
William Mollison	Dundas	1858–1858; 1859–1864
Francis Murphy	Murray Boroughs	1856–1865; 1866–1871
William Nicholson	Sandridge	1859–1864
William Nixon ^[p]	Polwarth & South Grenville	1861–1863
Alfred Arthur O'Connor	Grenville	1861–1864
Michael O'Grady	South Bourke	1861–1868; 1870–1876
James Orkney	West Melbourne	1861–1864; 1880–1885
John O'Shanassy	Kilmore	1856–1865; 1877–1883
John Downes Owens ^[q]	Mandurang	1856–1859; 1861–1863
Vincent Pyke ^[r]	Castlemaine	1856–1857; 1859–1862
John Ramsay	Maldon	1861–1867
David Reid ^[s]	The Murray	1859–1862
John Richardson	Geelong East	1861–1876
John Carre Riddell	West Bourke	1860–1877
James Service ^[t]	Ripon and Hampden	1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
John Smith	West Bourke	1856–1879
Louis Smith	South Bourke	1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880; 1880–1883; 1886–1894
William Collard Smith ^[u]	Ballaarat West	1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Peter Snodgrass	Dalhousie	1856–1867
James Forester Sullivan	Mandurang	1861–1871; 1874–1876
Robert Braithwaite Tucker	Kyneton Boroughs	1861–1867
George Frederic Verdon	Williamstown	1859–1868
William Charles Weekes	Ovens	1861–1864
Samuel Wilson	Wimmera	1861–1864
John Woods	Crowlands	1859–1864; 1871–1892
Peter Wright	Ovens	1861–1864; 1877–1880; 1886–1889

^a Brodribb resigned in March 1862; replaced by George Higinbotham in an April 1862 by-election

^b H. Chapman resigned in February 1862; replaced by James McCulloch in a March 1862 by-election

^c J. Chapman was disqualified in October 1861; replaced by Alexander John Smith in a November 1861 by-election

^d Casey was unseated on petition in March 1862;^[2] replaced by Robert Frederick Howard in a March 1862 by-election

^e Costello was expelled in November 1861; replaced by John Sinclair in a November 1861 by-election^[3]

^f Denovan resigned in July 1862; replaced by Robert Strickland in a November 1862 by-election

^g Everard was disqualified in August 1861 (insolvent); replaced by George Mackay in an August 1861 by-election. Mackay resigned in April 1864; replaced in turn by Everard in an April 1864 by-election

^h Flint resigned March 1862; replaced by Tharp Girdlestone in an April 1862 by-election

ⁱ Gillespie resigned in March 1862; replaced by Mark Morrell Pope in a March 1862 by-election

^j Gray resigned in September 1862; replaced by John MacGregor in a November 1862 by-election

^k Hedley resigned in October 1862; replaced by John Johnson in a November 1862 by-election

^l Ireland resigned in April 1864; replaced by Samuel MacGregor in a May 1864 by-election

^m Ireland won both Maryborough, and Villiers and Heytesbury; he resigned from the former; replaced by George S. Evans in an October 1861 by-election

ⁿ Jones resigned in March 1863; replaced by John Thomson in an April 1863 by-election

^o Manifold resigned in November 1861; replaced by John Wood in a December 1861 by-election

^p Nixon left the Assembly in July 1863; replaced by Archibald Michie sworn-in August 1863

^q Owens resigned around July 1863; replaced by James Joseph Casey sworn-in August 1863

^r Pyke resigned in June 1862; replaced by George Allen Smyth in a November 1862 by-election

^s Reid was disqualified in May 1862; replaced by John Orr in a March 1862 by-election

^t Service resigned around August 1862; replaced by George Morton in a November by-election

^u W. Smith resigned in January 1864; replaced by Robert Lewis sworn-in February 1864; Lewis resigned c. July 1864

References

^ "Legislative Assembly Elections". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
^ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Casey, Hon. James Joseph" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
^ "Legislative Assembly". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. 27 November 1861.

Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
"Find a Member". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
Victorian Hansard, Session 1861-62 (PDF). Vol. 8. Wilson & MacKinnon, Melb. 1862.

[1] "Legislative Assembly Elections". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2025.

[2] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Casey, Hon. James Joseph" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

[3] "Legislative Assembly". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. 27 November 1861.

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