Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1868–1870

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This is a list of members of the 4th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1868 to 1870, as elected at the 1868 colonial elections held between 14 September 1868 and 6 October 1868 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).[1]

Name Electorate Term in office
Archibald Archer[6] Rockhampton 1867–1869; 1878–1886;
1888–1896
Robert Travers Atkin[2][9] Clermont
East Moreton		 1868–1869; 1870–1872
Joshua Peter Bell Northern Downs 1862–1879
John Robinson Benson[10] Clermont 1870–1870
Rt Hon John Bright[5] Kennedy 1869–1870
Archibald Berdmore Buchanan[8] Mitchell 1870; 1871–1873
Oscar de Satge[2][10]
 Clermont 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882
John Douglas[1] East Moreton 1863–1866; 1867–1868;
1875–1880
George Edmondstone[3] Town of Brisbane 1860–1867; 1869–1877
Gilbert Eliott Wide Bay 1860–1870
John Ferrett[12] West Moreton 1860–1863; 1870–1873
Thomas Henry FitzGerald[5]
 Kennedy 1867–1869; 1873–1875
Frederick Forbes
 West Moreton 1860–1863; 1865–1867;
1868–1873
Arthur Francis[9] East Moreton 1867–1870
Simon Fraser Town of Brisbane 1868–1870; 1873–1878;
1880–1888
Alexander Fyfe [11] Rockhampton 1870–1873
William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901
Charles Haly[4] Burnett 1860–1863; 1865–1867;
1869–1871; 1876–1878
Hon Arthur Hodgson[7] Warrego 1868–1869
Samuel Hodgson[12] West Moreton 1868–1870
Henry Jordan[1] East Moreton 1860; 1868–1871;
1883–1890
Edward Lamb[8] Mitchell 1867–1869
Charles Lilley
Hamlet of Fortitude Valley
 1860–1873
Arthur Macalister Eastern Downs 1860–1871; 1872–1876
Thomas McIlwraith[7] Warrego 1870–1871; 1873–1886;
1888–1896
Robert Mackenzie[4] Burnett 1860–1869
William Miles Maranoa 1864–1873; 1874–1875;
1876–1887
Henry Milford [6][11] Rockhampton 1869–1870
John Murphy
Town of Ipswich
 1867–1870
Kevin O'Doherty
 Town of Brisbane 1867–1873
Hon Arthur Hunter Palmer Port Curtis 1866–1881
Ratcliffe Pring Burnett 1860–1862; 1863–1866;
1867–1872; 1873–1874;
1878–1879
Theophilus Parsons Pugh[3] Town of Brisbane 1863–1869
Robert Ramsay Western Downs 1867–1873
Charles Royds Leichhardt 1860–1864; 1868–1872
Gordon Sandeman Leichhardt 1863–1870
Thomas Blacket Stephens Town of South Brisbane 1863–1875
James Taylor Western Downs 1860–1870
John Malbon Thompson
Town of Ipswich
 1868–1881
George Thorn West Moreton 1867–1874; 1876–1878;
1879–1883; 1887–1888;
1893–1902
Edmond Thornton Warwick 1868–1870; 1871–1873
William Henry Walsh Maryborough 1865–1878
Henry Williams
Town of Ipswich
 1868–1870

See also

  • Premier:
Robert Mackenzie (1867–1868)
Charles Lilley (1868–1870)

Notes

1 On 11 December 1868, John Douglas, member for East Moreton, resigned. Henry Jordan won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1868.
Oscar de Satge
won the resulting by-election on 4 March 1869.
3 On 30 January 1869, Theophilus Parsons Pugh, member for Town of Brisbane, resigned. George Edmondstone was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election on 10 February 1869.
4 On 6 April 1869, Robert Mackenzie, former Premier and member for Burnett, retired from politics and departed for Europe. Charles Haly won the resulting by-election on 21 April 1869.
Thomas Henry FitzGerald, member for Kennedy, resigned. Rt Hon John Bright
, an English Radical politician who was endorsed as a form of protest, won the resulting by-election on 10 July 1869. He never took his seat in the Queensland Parliament.
6 On 19 November 1869, Archibald Archer, member for Rockhampton, resigned. Henry Milford won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1869, although did not take his seat.
7 On 23 November 1869, Arthur Hodgson, the member for Warrego, resigned. Thomas McIlwraith won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1870.
8 On 3 December 1869, Edward Lamb, member for Mitchell, resigned. Archibald Berdmore Buchanan won the resulting by-election on 8 February 1870; however, it emerged he had not nominated as a candidate and had been elected against his own wishes, and he resigned two days later.
9 On 17 February 1870, Arthur Francis, member for East Moreton, resigned due to insolvency. After Robert Cribb withdrew his nomination, Robert Travers Atkin was elected unopposed on 17 February 1870.
Oscar de Satge, member for the Clermont resigned. John Robinson Benson
won the resulting by-election on 4 May 1870.
11 On 7 June 1870, Henry Milford, member for Rockhampton since a December 1869 by-election, resigned. He stood again at the resulting by-election on 20 June 1870, but was defeated by Alexander Fyfe.
12 On 13 June 1870, Samuel Hodgson, member for West Moreton, resigned. John Ferrett won the resulting by-election on 25 June 1870.

References

  1. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
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