Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1868–1871

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 21 January; 7, 20 February 1868 to the elections of 14 February; 3, 16 March 1871.^[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 Cole Aspinall ^[a]	St Kilda	1856–1864; 1866–1870
William Baillie ^[b]	Castlemaine	1866–1870
James Balfour ^[c]	East Bourke	1866–1868
William Bates	Collingwood	1868–1874
William Bayles	Villiers & Heytesbury	1864–1880
Samuel Bindon ^[d]	Castlemaine	1864–1868
David Blair	Crowlands	1856–1859; 1868–1871
Lawrence Bourke	Kilmore	1868–1874
Robert Bowman ^[e]	Maryborough	1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893
Robert Burrowes	Sandhurst	1866–1877; 1880–1893
John Burtt	North Melbourne	1864–1874
James Butters	Portland	1868–1869; 1869–1871
Robert Byrne ^[f]	Crowlands	1866–1869
James Gattie Carr ^[g]	Geelong West	1859–1861; 1868–1870
James Casey	Mandurang	1861–1862; 1863–1880
Edward Cohen	East Melbourne	1861–1865; 1868–1877
Joseph Henry Connor	Polwarth & South Grenville	1864–1871; 1874–1877; 1882–1886
Edward Cope	East Bourke Boroughs	1864–1871
Thomas Cope	Normanby	1868–1880
George Cunningham	South Grant	1864–1874; 1881–1886
Benjamin George Davies	Avoca	1861–1880
Charles Duffy	Dalhousie	1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
Charles Dyte	Ballaarat East	1864–1871
John Everard	Collingwood	1858–1859; 1861; 1864; 1868–1871; 1874
James Farrell	Castlemaine	1866–1878
Thomas Fellows	St Kilda	1856–1858; 1868–1872
Nicholas Foott ^[h]	Geelong West	1860–1868
James Francis	Richmond	1859–1874; 1878–1884
William Frazer ^[i]	Creswick	1859–1870
Duncan Gillies ^[j]	Ballaarat West	1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1894; 1897–1903
James Macpherson Grant ^[k]	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
Patrick Hanna	Murray Boroughs	1866–1877
John Harbison	North Melbourne	1864–1865; 1866–1871
James Harcourt	Richmond	1868–1871
George Higinbotham	Brighton	1861–1861; 1862–1871; 1873–1876
John Humffray	Ballaarat East	1856–1864; 1868–1871
George Kerferd	Ovens	1864–1886
Charles Kernot	Geelong East	1868–1871; 1876–1880; 1880–1882
Mark Last King	West Bourke	1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Peter Lalor	South Grant	1856–1871; 1874–1889
Edward Langton	West Melbourne	1866–1877
Francis Longmore	Ripon & Hampden	1864–1883; 1894–1897
James MacBain	Wimmera	1864–1880
Matthew McCaw ^[l]	East Bourke	1866–1870
Thomas McCombie ^[m]	South Gippsland	1868–1869
James McCulloch	Mornington	1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
Morgan McDonnell ^[n]	Villiers & Heytesbury	1868–1870
John MacGregor	Rodney	1862–1874
Angus Mackay	Sandhurst	1868–1880; 1883–1886
James McKean	Maryborough	1866–1871; 1875–1876; 1880–1883
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
Thomas Mason	Williamstown	1868–1871
William Miller	Creswick	1868–1871
Francis Murphy	Grenville	1856–1865; 1866–1871
Michael O'Grady ^[o]	South Bourke	1861–1868; 1870–1876
William Plummer	Warrnambool	1866–1874
Isaac Reeves ^[p]	Collingwood	1866–1869
John Richardson	Geelong East	1861–1876
John Carre Riddell	West Bourke	1860–1877
Thomas Russell	Grenville	1868–1873
George Paton Smith	South Bourke	1866–1871; 1874–1877
George Verney Smith	Ovens	1864–1877
John Smith	West Bourke	1856–1879
Frederick Smyth	North Gippsland	1866–1867; 1868–1875; 1877–1880
William Stutt	South Grant	1867–1871
James Forester Sullivan	Mandurang	1861–1871; 1874–1876
David Thomas	Sandridge	1868–1876
William Vale ^[q]	Ballaarat West	1864–1869; 1869–1874; 1880–1881
George Frederic Verdon ^[r]	Emerald Hill	1859–1868
Frederick Walsh	East Melbourne	1868–1874; 1881–1883
William Watkins	Evelyn	1866–1874
William Williams	Maldon	1867–1874
William Wilson	Ararat	1866–1874; 1881–1883
William Witt	The Murray	1868–1872; 1874–1877
Henry Wrixon	Belfast	1868–1877; 1880–1894

^[a] Aspinall resigned c. October 1870, replaced by James Stephen in an October 1870 by-election.

^[b] Baillie left parliament in November 1870, replaced by James Patterson in a December 1870 by-election.

^[c] Balfour resigned August 1868, replaced by William Lobb in a September by-election

^[d] Bindon resigned in October 1868, replaced by Richard Kitto in a by-election the same month.^[2]

^[e] Bowman resigned in March 1870, replaced by Duncan Gillies in a by-election the same month.

^[f] Byrne resigned October 1869, replaced by George Rolfe in a by-election the same month.

^[g] Carr resigned May 1870, replaced by Robert de Bruce Johnstone in May 1870.^[3]

^[h] Foott died 24 September 1868, replaced by Graham Berry in October 1868.^[4]

^[i] Frazer died 13 December 1870, replaced by James Syme Stewart in January 1871.

^[j] Gillies resigned in May 1868, replaced by Charles Jones in a by-election the same month.

^[k] Grant left Parliament in July 1870, replaced by Peter Finn who was sworn-in October 1870.

^[l] McCaw resigned in September 1870, replaced by Robert Ramsay in October 1870.

^[m] McCombie resigned in March 1869, replaced by George Macartney in a by-election the same month.

^[n] McDonnell retired in April 1870, replaced by Michael O'Grady who was elected unopposed in July 1870.^[5]

^[o] O'Grady became Minister for Public Works which caused a by-election in May 1868; won by John Branscombe Crews.^[6]

^[p] Reeves lost a by-election in October 1869 after becoming a minister, replaced by William Vale.

^[q] Vale resigned in April 1869, replaced by John James in a May 1869 by-election.^[7]

^[r] Verdon resigned May 1868 replaced by John Whiteman in a June 1868 by-election

Francis Murphy was Speaker, Frederick Smyth was Chairman of Committees.

References

^ "Legislative Assembly Elections". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
^ "Telegraphic Despatches". The Argus. Melbourne. 31 October 1868. p. 5.
^ "Wednesday, May 11, 1870". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 May 1870. p. 4.
^ "Geelong West Election". The Ballarat Star. 17 October 1868. p. 2.
^ "Local". Kilmore Free Press. 14 July 1870. p. 2.
^ "The Ministerial Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 May 1868. p. 5.
^ "Ballarat West Election". The Australasian. Melbourne. 29 May 1869. p. 21.

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 17 July 2025.
Victorian Hansard, Session 1868 (PDF). Vol. 6. John Ferres, Melb. 1868.

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

[2] "Telegraphic Despatches". The Argus. Melbourne. 31 October 1868. p. 5.

[3] "Wednesday, May 11, 1870". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 May 1870. p. 4.

[4] "Geelong West Election". The Ballarat Star. 17 October 1868. p. 2.

[5] "Local". Kilmore Free Press. 14 July 1870. p. 2.

[6] "The Ministerial Elections". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 May 1868. p. 5.

[7] "Ballarat West Election". The Australasian. Melbourne. 29 May 1869. p. 21.

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