Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1870–1871

This is a list of members of the 5th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1870 to 1871, as elected at the 1870 colonial elections held between 27 July 1870 and 15 September 1870 (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
Robert Travers Atkin	East Moreton	1868–1869; 1870–1872
Joshua Peter Bell	Northern Downs	1862–1879
John Bramston^[1]	Burnett	1871–1873
Benjamin Cribb	Town of Ipswich	1861–1867; 1870–1873
Oscar de Satge	Clermont	1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882
George Edmondstone	Town of Brisbane	1860–1867; 1869–1877
John Ferrett	West Moreton	1860–1863; 1870–1873
Frederick Forbes	West Moreton	1860–1863; 1865–1867; 1868–1873
Alexander Fyfe	Rockhampton	1870–1873
William Henry Groom	Drayton and Toowoomba	1862–1901
Charles Robert Haly^[1]	Burnett	1860–1863; 1865–1867; 1869–1871; 1876–1878
John Handy	Mitchell	1870–1871; 1872–1873
John Johnston	Town of Ipswich	1870–1872
Henry Jordan	East Moreton	1860; 1868–1871; 1883–1890
Henry Edward King	Wide Bay	1870–1871; 1871–1873; 1874–1883
Charles Lilley	Hamlet of Fortitude Valley	1860–1873
Arthur Macalister	Eastern Downs	1860–1871; 1872–1876
Edward MacDevitt	Kennedy	1870–1874
Thomas McIlwraith	Warrego	1870–1871; 1873–1886; 1888–1896
William Miles	Maranoa	1864–1873; 1874–1875; 1876–1887
Berkeley Basil Moreton	Burnett	1870–1871; 1873–1875; 1883–1888
James Morgan	Warwick	1870–1871; 1873–1878
Kevin O'Doherty	Town of Brisbane	1867–1873
Arthur Hunter Palmer	Port Curtis	1866–1881
Ratcliffe Pring	Town of Brisbane	1860–1862; 1863–1866; 1867–1872; 1873–1874; 1878–1879
Robert Ramsay	Western Downs	1867–1873
Charles Royds	Leichhardt	1860–1864; 1868–1872
John Scott	Leichhardt	1868, 1870–1888
Thomas Blacket Stephens	Town of South Brisbane	1863–1875
John Malbon Thompson	Town of Ipswich	1868–1881
George Thorn	West Moreton	1867–1874; 1876–1878; 1879–1883; 1887–1888; 1893–1902
William Henry Walsh	Maryborough	1865–1878
Edward Wienholt	Western Downs	1870–1875

Notes

¹ On 23 March 1871, Charles Haly, member for Burnett, resigned. John Bramston won the resulting by-election on 3 April 1871.

References

^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)
Brisbane Courier variously over 1871–1873

[qed-1] "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

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Legislative Assembly	1860–1863 1863–1867 1867–1868 1868–1870 1870–1871 1871–1873 1873–1878 1878–1883 1883–1888 1888–1893 1893–1896 1896–1899 1899–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1908 1908–1909 1909–1912 1912–1915 1915–1918 1918–1920 1920–1923 1923–1926 1926–1929 1929–1932 1932–1935 1935–1938 1938–1941 1941–1944 1944–1947 1947–1950 1950–1953 1953–1956 1956–1957 1957–1960 1960–1963 1963–1966 1966–1969 1969–1972 1972–1974 1974–1977 1977–1980 1980–1983 1983–1986 1986–1989 1989–1992 1992–1995 1995–1998 1998–2001 2001–2004 2004–2006 2006–2009 2009–2012 2012–2015 2015–2017 2017–2020 2020–2024 2024–2028
Legislative Council	1860–1869 1870–1879 1880–1889 1890–1899 1900–1909 1910–1916 1917–1922

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