This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as appointed to the Council of 1853 or elected at the 1853 election (main table). Members added in 1855 are noted in a separate section below.
From 1851 to 1856 the original Legislative Council was unicameral (a single chamber) and consisted of Electoral districts.[1] From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house).[2]
Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that electorate.
| Name | Type | Electoral district (or Office) | Term in Office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominee | 1852–1856; 1858–1878 | |||
| nominee | 1853 | |||
| nominee | 1852–1856 | |||
| elected | 1853–1855 | |||
| elected | 1853–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1854; 1862–1882 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Collector of Customs) | 1853 | ||
| office-bearing nominee | (Auditor-General 1852–1853) | 1852–1856 | ||
| office-bearing nominee | (Surveyor General) | 1853–1856 | ||
| elected | 1853–1855; 1859–1879 | |||
| elected | 1853–1854; 1856–1858 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Solicitor-General) | 1852–1854 | ||
| elected | 1853–1854 | |||
| nominee | 1853 | |||
| elected | 1851–1869 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Colonial Secretary) | 1853–1854 | ||
| elected | 1851–1853 | |||
| elected | 1853–1856 | |||
| nominee | 1853–1854; 1867–1886 | |||
| elected | 1853–1856 | |||
| elected (nom. 1851–52) | 1851–1852; 1853–1856 | |||
| elected (nom. 1851–52) | 1851–1852; 1853–1856; 1865–1866 | |||
| elected | 1853–1882 | |||
| elected | 1853–1865 | |||
| nominee | 1853–1856; 1857–1880 | |||
| elected | 1853–1860 | |||
| elected | 1853 | |||
| elected | 1851–1866 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Chief Commissioner of Police) | 1853; 1856–1858; 1859–1884 | ||
| elected | 1853–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1853; 1853–1856; 1872–1876 | |||
| elected | 1853–1855 | |||
| elected | 1852–1856 | |||
| elected | 1853–1854 | |||
| elected | 1852–1856 | |||
| elected | 1853–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1856; 1868–1874 | |||
| elected | 1851–1870 | |||
| nominee | 1853–1854 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Master in Equity) | 1851–1854; 1855–1856 | ||
| nominee | 1852–1856 | |||
| nominee | 1851–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1854 | |||
| elected | 1851–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1856 | |||
| elected | 1851–1854 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Attorney-General) | 1851–1856 | ||
| elected | 1853–1854 | |||
| elected | 1851–1866; 1866–1874 | |||
| elected | 1852–1854 | |||
| elected | 1853–1854 | |||
| elected | 1851–1856 | |||
| elected | 1853–1854 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Chief Commissioner of Gold Fields) | 1853–1856 |
Aldcorn resigned 24 November 1853; replaced by James McCulloch (non-office-bearing nominee) from 1 August 1854
Annand resigned July 1855; replaced by Thomas Embling, by-election Sep. 1855
Campbell resigned May 1854; replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows, by-election Sep. 1854
Childers was Auditor-General until 5 December 1853[3] replaced by Edward Grimes from 8 December 1853.[4] Childers was Collector of Customs from 5 December 1853
Cole resigned May 1855; replaced by John King by-election Nov. 1855
Cowie resigned May 1854, replaced by James Harrison, by-election Nov. 1854
Croke resigned January 1854, replaced by Robert Molesworth from 4 January 1854[5]
Dane resigned November 1854; replaced by Henry Samuel Chapman, by-election Feb. 1855
Emmett resigned September 1853; replaced by Andrew Knight on 6 September 1853; Knight resigned 8 March 1854; replaced by Charles Bradshaw on 1 August 1854
Foster resigned December 1854, replaced by William Haines as Colonial Secretary on 12 December 1854[6]
Goldsmith resigned November 1853, replaced by John Thompson Charlton
Graham resigned July 1854, replaced by Donald Kennedy from September 1854[7]
Haines resigned Dec. 1854; replaced by Horatio Wills, January 1855
Langlands was unseated; replaced by successful appealer Frederick James Sargood, Oct. 1853
Mitchell resigned November 1853, replaced by Charles MacMahon
James Murphy resigned Sep. 1855; replaced by Thomas Rae by-election Nov. 1855
Nicholson resigned May 1854; replaced by George Horne, by-election Sep. 1854
Parker resigned August 1854; replaced by Alfred Ross 12 August 1854[8]
Pohlman resigned as nominee October 1854, elected for Ripon and Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth, January 1855.
Pohlman replaced by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the council on 16 October 1854[8]
Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855
Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854
Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854
Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854
James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Colin Campbell, by-election 1854
Winter resigned Aug. 1854; replaced by William Forlonge, by-election, Oct. 1854
In 1855, five new electorates were created, a total of eight elected members and one non-office bearing nominee were added to the council.[9] Nominations took place on 10 November 1855, Humffray and Lalor were elected unopposed.[10] An office-bearing nominee (Treasurer) was added 28 November 1855.[11]
| Name | Type | Electoral district[12] / Position | Term in Office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Benson | elected | Sandhurst | 1855–1856 | |
| Daniel Cameron | elected | Ovens | 1855–1856 | |
| James Macpherson Grant | elected | Sandhurst | 1855–1856 | |
| John Basson Humffray | elected | Ballaarat | 1855–1856 | |
| Peter Lalor | elected | Ballaarat | 1855–1856 | |
| Duncan Longden | elected | Avoca | 1855–1856 | |
| John D. Owens | nominee | 1855–1856 | ||
| elected | 1855–1856 | |||
| office-bearing nominee | (Treasurer) | 1855–1856 | ||
| elected | 1855–1856 |