Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1851–1856

This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856.^[1][2] The 1851 Electoral Act increased the number of members in the Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected.^[3]

Name	Appointed or District	Years in office
George Allen	Appointed	1845–1856
Thomas Barker	Appointed	1853–1856
George Barney	Appointed	1843–1856
Alexander Berry	Appointed	1843–1856
James Bettington	Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh	1851–1853
Francis Bigge	Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa	1851–1852
James Bligh	County of Bathurst	1851–1856
George Bowman	Counties of Northumberland and Hunter	1851–1856
William Bowman	Cumberland Boroughs	1843–1851; 1853–1856
William Bradley	County of Argyle	1843–1846; 1851–1856
Edward Broadhurst	Appointed	1851–1856
Robert Campbell	City of Sydney	1851–1856
James Chisholm	Counties of King and Georgiana	1851–1856; 1865–1888
William Christie	Appointed	1852–1856
Daniel Cooper	Counties of Murray and St Vincent	1849–1851; 1855–1856
Charles Cowper	County of Durham	1843–1850; 1851–1856; 1860
Edward Cox	Appointed	1851–1855
John Darvall	County of Cumberland	1844–1856
Alfred Denison	Appointed	1851–1851
John Dobie	Appointed	1851–1855
Stuart Donaldson	County of Durham; Sydney Hamlets	1848–1853; 1855–1856
Henry Douglass	Counties of Northumberland and Hunter	1851–1856; 1856–1861
William Dumaresq	Counties of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh	1843–1848; 1851–1856
Daniel Egan	Pastoral District of Maneroo	1854–1856
Charles Finch	Pastoral Districts of Wellington and Bligh	1853–1856
Robert Fitzgerald	County of Cumberland	1849–1856; 1856–1865
Edward Flood	North Eastern Boroughs	1851–1856; 1879–1888
John Gibbes	Appointed	1843–1855
Arthur Hodgson	County of Stanley	1854
John Holden	Cumberland Boroughs; Appointed	1851–1853; 1853–1856
Arthur Holroyd	Western Boroughs	1851–1856
Thomas Hood	Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs	1855–1856; 1856–1861
Henry Hughes	Appointed	1851–1853
Thomas Icely	Appointed	1843–1856
Arthur Jeffreys	Pastoral District of Maneroo	1851–1854
Richard Jones	Stanley Boroughs	1829–1843; 1850–1852
Phillip King	Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie	1839; 1850–1851; 1851–1856
John Lamb	City of Sydney	1844–1851; 1851–1853
John Lang	County of Stanley	1843–1847; 1850–1851; 1854–1856
George Leslie	Pastoral Districts of Clarence and Darling Downs	1851–1855
Alexander Longmore	Appointed	1851
James Macarthur	County of Camden, Western Division	1839–1843; 1848–1856; 1866–1867
William Macarthur	Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling	1849–1855; 1864–1882
George Macleay	Pastoral District of Murrumbidgee	1851–1856
William Macleay	Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling	1855–1856
William Manning	Appointed	1851–1856
Matthew Marsh	Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay	1851–1855
James Martin	Counties of Cook and Westmoreland	1848–1856
Robert Massie	Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay	1855
William Mayne	Appointed	1852–1856
Francis Merewether	Appointed	1851–1856
James Mitchell	Appointed	1855–1856
Augustus Morris	Pastoral Districts of Liverpool Plains and Gwydir	1851–1856
Terence Murray	Southern Boroughs	1843–1856
George Nichols	Northumberland Boroughs	1848–1856
Charles Nicholson	County of Argyle	1843–1856
George Oakes	Town of Parramatta	1848–1856; 1879–1881
Alick Osborne	Counties of Murray and St. Vincent	1851–1855
Henry Osborne	County of Camden, Eastern Division	1851–1856
Alexander Park	County of Durham	1853–1856
Henry Parker	Appointed	1846–1856
Henry Parkes	City of Sydney	1854–1856
John Plunkett	Appointed	1836–1841; 1843–1856; 1857–1858; 1861–1869
John Richardson	County of Stanley; Stanley Boroughs	1851–1854; 1855–1856
Campbell Riddell	Appointed	1843–1858
Thomas Rusden	Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay	1855–1856
Henry Russell	Stanley Boroughs	1853–1855
Saul Samuel	Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington	1854–1856; 1872–1880
Thomas Smart	Sydney Hamlets	1851–1855; 1870–1881
Richard Smith	Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa	1853–1856
William Spain	Appointed	1851–1852; 1856–1858
John Stirling	Appointed	1854–1856
William Suttor Sr.	Counties of Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington, Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington	1843–1854
Edward Thomson	Appointed	1837–1854; 1856–1879
William Thurlow	City of Sydney	1853–1855
Edward Ward	Appointed	1855–1856; 1861–1865
William Wentworth	City of Sydney	1843–1854; 1861–1862
James Wilshire	City of Sydney	1855–1856

References

1. "Former Members Index A-Z". Parliament of New South Wales.
2. "Appointed Prior to the Date of Responsible Government in 1856" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record: Part Three – Members of the Legislative Council (Parliament of New South Wales): 1–3. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
3. An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales after the separation of the District of Port Phillip therefrom into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council., Act No. 48 of 2 May 1851. Retrieved on 9 September 2014.

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