Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1891–1894

This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 15th parliament of New South Wales from 1891 to 1894 They were elected at the 1891 colonial election between 17 June and 3 July 1891. The Speaker was Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott.

Name	Party ¶	Electorate	Term in office
Joseph Abbott	FT	Newtown	1888–1895
Joseph Palmer Abbott	Independent	Wentworth	1880–1901
William A'Beckett ^5	FT	Bogan	1889–1891 1892-1894
Alfred Allen	FT	Paddington	1887–1894
Robert Barbour	Prot	Murray	1877-1880 1882-1894
John Barnes	Prot	Gundagai	1889–1904
Edmund Barton	Prot	East Sydney	1879–1887, 1891–1894, 1898–1900
Thomas Bavister	Labor/FT	Canterbury	1891–1898
George Black	Labor/Independent Labor	West Sydney	1891–1898 1910-1917
Robert Booth	FT	Bogan	1891–1894
John Bowes	Prot	Morpeth	1887-1889 1891-1894
Alexander Bowman ^6	FT	Hawkesbury	1877-1882 1885-1892
Edward Brown	FT	Tumut	1866–1872, 1891–1894
Herbert Brown	FT	Durham	1875–1898
James Brunker	FT	East Maitland	1880–1904
Sydney Burdekin ^6	FT	Hawkesbury	1880-1882 1884-1891 1892-1894
Archibald Campbell ^3	Prot	Illawarra	1891–1903
John Cann	Labor	Sturt	1891–1916
Joseph Carruthers	FT	Canterbury	1887–1908
George Cass ^5	Prot	Bogan	1880–1892
John Chanter	Prot	Murray	1885–1901
Austin Chapman	Prot	Braidwood	1891–1901
Edward Clark	Labor/Independent Free Trade	St Leonards	1891–1904 1907-1910
George Clark	Labor/FT	Balmain	1891–1894
Francis Clarke ^11	Prot	Macleay	1893–1898 1900-1901
Henry Clarke	Prot	Eden	1869–1894, 1895–1904
Charles Collins	FT	Namoi	1885- 1887 1890-1898
Thomas Colls	Prot	Yass Plains	1886–1894
Joseph Cook	Labor/Independent Labor	Hartley	1891–1901
Henry Copeland	Prot	New England	1877–1883, 1883–1895, 1895–1900
Francis Cotton	Labor/FT	Newtown	1891–1901
Paddy Crick	Prot	West Macquarie	1889–1906
George Cruickshank	Prot	Inverell	1889–1901
Joseph Cullen	FT	St Leonards	1891–1894
William Cullen	FT	Camden	1891–1894
David Dale	FT	Central Cumberland	1891–1894
Cornelius Danahey	Labor/Independent Free Trade	Canterbury	1891–1894
Otho Dangar ^11	Independent Protectionist	Macleay	1889–1893
Edward Darnley	Labor/Independent Free Trade	Balmain	1891–1894
Thomas Davis	Labor	West Sydney	1891–1898
Henry Dawson	Prot	Monaro	1885–1894
George Dibbs ^9	Prot	Murrumbidgee	1874–1877, 1882–1895
Edward Dickens	Prot	Wilcannia	1889–1894
George Donald	FT	Hartley	1891–1894
Denis Donnelly	Prot	Carcoar	1891–1896
William Dowel	Prot	Tamworth	1891–1896
Alfred Edden	Labor/Independent Labor	Northumberland	1891–1920
James Eve ^2	FT	Canterbury	1891–1894
Thomas Ewing	Independent Protectionist	Richmond	1885–1901
Frank Farnell	FT	Central Cumberland	1887–1898 1901-1903
John Fegan	Labor/FT	Newcastle	1891–1907 1920-1922
John FitzGerald	Labor/Prot	West Sydney	1891–1894
Robert Fitzgerald	Prot	Upper Hunter	1885–1901
George Fuller	FT	Kiama	1889–1894 1915-1928
Albert Gardiner	Labor/Independent Labor	Forbes	1891–1895 1904-1907
Jacob Garrard ^1	FT	Central Cumberland	1880–1898
James Garvan	Prot	Eden	1880–1894
John Gillies	FT	West Maitland	1891–1911
James Gormly	Prot	Murrumbidgee	1885–1904
John Gough	Labor/Prot	Young	1889–1894
Albert Gould	FT	Patrick's Plains	1882–1898
William Grahame	Prot	Newcastle	1889–1894
John Hart	FT	Gloucester	1891–1894
Thomas Hassall	Prot	Gwydir	1886–1901
James Hayes	Prot	Hume	1885–1904
John Haynes	Independent Free Trade	Mudgee	1887-1904 1915-1917
John Hindle	Labor/Independent Free Trade	Newtown	1891–1894
Patrick Hogan	Prot	Macleay	1885-1887 1889-1895
William Holborow	FT	Argyle	1880–1894
Leslie Hollis	Labor/FT	Goulburn	1891–1898
Thomas Houghton	Labor/Independent Labor	Glebe	1891–1894
James Howe ^4	Prot	Bourke	1888–1891
Henry Hoyle	Prot	Redfern	1891–1994 1910-1917
George Hutchinson	Labor/Independent Free Trade	Forbes	1891–1994
Alexander Hutchison	Prot	Glen Innes	1889–1994
James Inglis	FT	New England	1885–1894
Charles Jeanneret	FT	Carcoar	1887-1889 1891-1894
James Johnston	Labor/Prot	Balmain	1891–1894
Robert Jones	Independent Free Trade	Mudgee	1891–1998 1907-1910
Andrew Kelly	Labor/Prot	West Sydney	1891–1894 1901-1913
John Kidd	Prot	Camden	1880–1882 1885–1887 1889-1904
John Kirkpatrick	Labor	Gunnedah	1891–1895
Hugh Langwell	Independent Labor	Bourke	1891–1894
Charles Lee	FT	Tenterfield	1884–1920
Samuel Lees	FT	Nepean	1887–1895 1898-1901
Robert Levien	Prot	Tamworth	1880–1913
Edmund Lonsdale	FT	New England	1891–1894 1895-1898 1901-1903
William Lyne	Prot	Hume	1880–1901
Andrew Lysaght	Prot	Illawarra	1885-1887 1891
James Mackinnon	Labor/Prot	Young	1882–1894
William Manning ^8	Prot	South Sydney	1893–1894
James Marks	FT	Paddington	1891–1894
James Martin	FT	South Sydney	1889–1895
William McCourt	FT	Camden	1882-1885 1887-1913
George McCredie ^10	FT	Central Cumberland	1893–1894
John McFarlane	Prot	Clarence	1887–1915
James McGowen	Labor	Redfern	1891–1917
Hugh McKinnon	Prot	Hastings and Manning	1891–1894
William McMillan	FT	East Sydney	1887–1898
Ninian Melville	Prot	Northumberland	1880-1887 1889-1894
Gus Miller	Prot	Monaro	1889–1918
Edmund Molesworth	FT	Newtown	1889–1901
James Morgan	Labor/Prot	Bogan	1891–1895
Philip Morton	FT	Shoalhaven	1889–1898
William Murphy	Labor/Prot	Balmain	1891–1894
John Neild	FT	Paddington	1885-1889 1891-1894 1895-1901
Henry Newman	Labor/FT	Orange	1891–1904
James Newton	Labor/Prot	Balranald	1891–1894
John Nicholson ^3	Labor/Independent Labor	Illawarra	1891–1917
Bruce Nicoll	Independent Protectionist	Richmond	1889–1894
John Nobbs ^10	FT	Central Cumberland	1888-1993 1898-1913
Edward O'Sullivan	Prot	Queanbeyan	1885–1910
Henry Parkes	FT	St Leonards	1856, 1858, 1859–1861, 1864–1870, 1872–1895
Varney Parkes	FT	East Sydney	1885–1888, 1891–1900 1907-1913
Hon John Perry	Independent Protectionist	Richmond	1889–1920
Arthur Rae	Labor/Independent Labor	Murrumbidgee	1891–1894
George Reid	Independent Free Trade	East Sydney	1880-1884 1885-1901
Robert Ritchie ^1	FT	Central Cumberland	1889–1891
Thomas Rose	Prot	Argyle	1891–1904
Andrew Ross	Prot	Molong	1880–1904
William Schey	Prot	Redfern	1887–1898
Robert Scobie	FT	Hunter	1889–1894
David Scott	Labor/Prot	Newcastle	1891–1894
John See	Prot	Grafton	1880–1904
William Sharp	Labor/Prot	Redfern	1891–1894
Job Sheldon	Labor/Prot	Namoi	1891–1894
Thomas Slattery	Prot	Boorowa	1880-1885 1887-1895
Bruce Smith	FT	Glebe	1882–1884, 1889–1894
Sydney Smith	FT	East Macquarie	1882–1898 1900
Richard Stevenson	Prot	Wollombi	1886–1895 1898-1899
Francis Bathurst Suttor	Prot	Bathurst	1875-1887 1891-1894 1898-1900
Hugh Taylor	FT	Parramatta	1882–1894
James Tonkin ^7	FT	East Macquarie	1887–1895
James Toohey ^8	Prot	South Sydney	1885–1891
James Torpy	Prot	Orange	1889–1894
William Traill	Prot	South Sydney	1889–1894
Robert Vaughn	Labor/Prot	Grenfell	1880–1894
Thomas Waddell ^4	Prot	Bourke	1887–1917
Thomas Walker	Prot	Northumberland	1887–1894
William Wall	Prot	Mudgee	1886–1895
John Want	Independent Free Trade	Paddington	1885–1894
John Wheeler ^2	FT	Canterbury	1889–1891
John Wilkinson	Prot	Albury	1889–1895
Robert Wilkinson	FT	Balranald	1880–1894
Thomas Williams	Labor/Independent Labor	Upper Hunter	1891–1894
William Willis	Prot	Bourke	1889–1904
Bernhard Wise	FT	South Sydney	1887-1889 1891–1895 1898-1900
Francis Wright	Prot	Glen Innes	1882–1885, 1889–1903
Thomas York	Prot	Wellington	1889-1891
James Young	FT	Hastings and Manning	1880-1901 1904-1907

By-elections

Under the constitution, ministers were required to resign to recontest their seats in a by-election when appointed. These by-elections are only noted when the minister was defeated; in general, he was elected unopposed.

#	Electorate	Departing Member	Party	Reason for By-election	Date of By-election	Winner of By-election	Party
1	Central Cumberland	Robert Ritchie	FT	Death	29/08/1891	Jacob Garrard	FT
2	Canterbury	John Wheeler	FT	Previous result overturned on appeal	02/09/1891	James Eve	FT
3	Illawarra	John Nicholson	Labor	Previous result voided on appeal	03/10/1891	John Nicholson	Labor
3	Illawarra	Andrew Lysaght	Labor	Previous result voided on appeal	03/10/1891	Archibald Campbell	Prot
4	Bourke	James Howe	Prot	Unknown resignation	04/12/1891	Thomas Waddell	Prot
5	Bogan	George Cass	Prot	Death	31/05/1892	William A'Beckett	FT
6	Hawkesbury	Alexander Bowman	FT	Death	23/07/1892	Sydney Burdekin	FT
7	East Macquarie	James Tonkin	FT	Financial Difficulty	13/08/1892	James Tonkin	FT
8	South Sydney	James Toohey	Prot	Unknown Resignation	13/02/1893	William Manning	Prot
9	Murrumbidgee	George Dibbs	Prot	Financial Difficulty	06/04/1893	George Dibbs	Prot
10	Central Cumberland	John Nobbs	FT	Financial Difficulty	06/05/1893	George McCredie	FT
11	Macleay	Otho Dangar	Prot	Financial Difficulty	29/05/1893	Francis Clarke	Prot

¶ The 35 Labor candidates elected at this election were the first Labor candidates elected in the Australasian colonies. Due to poor party organisation and disputes over the meaning of the solidarity pledge and the fiscal question, the party caucus split almost from the day of its first meeting. The membership of caucus was extremely fluid with some members (here indicated as Independent Labor) accepting a modified pledge that bound them to vote for the party platform. The second party designations are those for which the member stood at the 1894 election.

See also

• Third Dibbs ministry

References

• "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856-2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
• Antony Green. "NSW Elections Analysis". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2009.

Members of the Parliament of New South Wales

Legislative Council 1889–1891 • 1891–1894 • 1894–1895

Legislative Assembly 1889–1891 • 1891–1894 • 1894–1895