Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1866–1867

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 30 December 1865, 15 and 29 January 1866 to the elections of 21 January; 7, 20 February 1868.^[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
Butler Aspinall	Portland	1856–1864; 1866–1870
William Baillie	Castlemaine	1866–1870
James Balfour	East Bourke	1866–1868
William Bayles	Villiers & Heytesbury	1864–1880
Samuel Bindon	Castlemaine	1864–1868
John Hutchison Blackwood	West Melbourne	1864–1867
Robert Bowman	Maryborough	1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893
Brice Bunny	St Kilda	1866–1867
Robert Burrowes	Sandhurst	1866–1877; 1880–1893
John Burtt	North Melbourne	1864–1874
Robert Byrne	Crowlands	1866–1869
James Casey	Mandurang	1861–1862; 1863–1880
Joseph Henry Connor	Polwarth & South Grenville	1864–1871; 1874–1877; 1882–1886
Edward Cope	East Bourke Boroughs	1864–1871
George Cunningham	Geelong East	1864–1874; 1881–1886
Benjamin George Davies	Avoca	1861–1880
Charles Dyte	Ballaarat East	1864–1871
John Edwards	Collingwood	1861–1867
Thomas Embling	Collingwood	1856–1861; 1866–1867
Gordon Evans	Belfast	1866–1867
James Farrell	Castlemaine	1866–1878
Nicholas Foott	Geelong West	1860–1868
James Francis	Richmond	1859–1874; 1878–1884
William Frazer	Creswick	1859–1870
Duncan Gillies	Ballaarat West	1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1894; 1897–1903
James Macpherson Grant	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
John Halfey	Sandhurst	1864–1867
Patrick Hanna	Murray Boroughs	1866–1877
John Harbison	North Melbourne	1864–1865; 1866–1871
Richard Heath	Geelong West	1866–1867
Henry Henty	Grenville	1866–1867
George Higinbotham	Brighton	1861–1861; 1862–1871; 1873–1876
John Rout Hopkins	South Grant	1864–1867; 1871–1877; 1892–1894
Richard Davies Ireland	Kilmore	1857–1864; 1866–1867
Charles Jones	Ballaarat East	1864–1867; 1868–1869; 1869–1871; 1886–1889
George Kerferd	Ovens	1864–1886
Mark Last King	West Bourke	1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Peter Lalor	South Grant	1856–1871; 1874–1889
Edward Langton	East Melbourne	1866–1877
George Levey	Normanby	1861–1867
Nathaniel Levi	East Melbourne	1861–1865; 1866–1867
Francis Longmore	Ripon & Hampden	1864–1883; 1894–1897
Andrew Love	Crowlands	1866–1867
James MacBain	Wimmera	1864–1880
William Nelson McCann ^[a]	South Grant	1861–1867
Matthew McCaw	East Bourke	1866–1870
James McCulloch	Mornington	1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
John MacGregor	Rodney	1862–1874
James McKean	Maryborough	1866–1871; 1875–1876; 1880–1883
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon	West Melbourne	1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
John MacPherson	Dundas	1864–1865; 1866–1878
David Moore	Sandridge	1856–1859; 1864–1867
Francis Murphy	Grenville	1856–1865; 1866–1871
Michael O'Grady	South Bourke	1861–1868; 1870–1876
John Orr	The Murray	1862–1867; 1872–1874; 1877–1880
William Pearson, Sr.	North Gippsland	1864–1867
William Plummer	Warrnambool	1866–1874
John Ramsay	Maldon	1861–1867
Isaac Reeves	Collingwood	1866–1869
John Richardson	Geelong East	1861–1876
John Carre Riddell	West Bourke	1860–1877
George John Sands	Dalhousie	1864–1867; 1886–1887
George Paton Smith	South Bourke	1866–1871; 1874–1877
George Verney Smith	Ovens	1864–1877
John Smith	West Bourke	1856–1879
Frederick Smyth	Villiers & Heytesbury	1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880
Peter Snodgrass	South Gippsland	1856–1867
Joshua Snowball	St Kilda	1866–1867
James Forester Sullivan	Mandurang	1861–1871; 1874–1876
Robert Braithwaite Tucker	Kyneton Boroughs	1861–1867
William Vale	Ballaarat West	1864–1869; 1869–1874; 1880–1881
George Frederic Verdon	Williamstown	1859–1868
Archibald Wardrop ^[b]	Richmond	1864–1866
William Watkins	Evelyn	1866–1874
James Wheeler	Creswick	1864–1867; 1880–1900
John Whiteman	Emerald Hill	1866–1867; 1868–1877
William Wilson	Ararat	1866–1874; 1881–1883

^[a] McCann forfeited his seat in August 1867 after being imprisoned for forgery, replaced by William Stutt in September 1867.^[2]

^[b] Wardrop resigned c. September 1866,^[3] replaced by Ambrose Kyte in a September by-election.^[4]

Francis Murphy was Speaker.

References

^ "Legislative Assembly Elections". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
^ "Saturday, September 14, 1867". The Argus. Melbourne. 14 September 1867. p. 4.
^ "Tuesday, September 11, 1866". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 September 1866. p. 4.
^ "Melbourne". Empire. Sydney. 26 September 1866. p. 5.

Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
"Find a Member". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
Victorian Hansard, Session 1866 (PDF). Vol. I (February to April 1866). John Ferres, Melb. 1866. pp. 2–3.

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

[2] "Saturday, September 14, 1867". The Argus. Melbourne. 14 September 1867. p. 4.

[3] "Tuesday, September 11, 1866". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 September 1866. p. 4.

[4] "Melbourne". Empire. Sydney. 26 September 1866. p. 5.

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Members of the Parliament of Victoria
Legislative Assembly	1856–1859 1859–1861 1861–1864 1864–1865 1868–1871 1871–1874 1874–1877 1877–1880 1880–1883 1883–1886 1886–1889 1889–1892 1892–1894 1894–1897 1897–1900 1900–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1908 1908–1911 1911–1914 1914–1917 1917–1920 1920–1921 1921–1924 1924–1927 1927–1929 1929–1932 1932–1935 1935–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1945 1945–1947 1947–1950 1950–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022 2022–2026
Legislative Council	1851–1853 1853–1856 1856–1858 1858–1860 1860–1862 1862–1864 1864–1866 1866–1868 1868–1870 1870–1872 1872–1874 1874–1876 1876–1878 1878–1880 1880–1882 1882–1884 1884–1886 1886–1888 1888–1890 1890–1892 1892–1895 1895–1896 1896–1898 1898–1900 1900–1901 1901–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1910 1910–1913 1913–1916 1916–1919 1919–1922 1922–1925 1925–1928 1928–1931 1931–1934 1934–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1946 1946–1949 1949–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022 2022–2026