Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1877–1881

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1877 to 1881.

This was the sixth Legislative Council to be elected under the Constitution of 1856, which provided for a house consisting of eighteen members to be elected from the whole colony acting as one electoral district "The Province"; that six members, selected by lot, should be replaced at General Elections after four years, another six to be replaced four years later and thenceforth each member should have a term of twelve years.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Six seats were declared vacant by rotation in 1877, filled by Morgan, Crozier, Baker, English, Pearce and Hughes.

Name	Time in office	Term expires	Notes
Henry Ayers	1857–1888 1888–1893	Feb. 1881
Richard Chaffey Baker	1877–1901		elected Apr. 1877
Allan Campbell	1878–		elected Sep. 1878
John Crozier	1867–1887		returned 1877
Walter Duffield	1873–1880
John Dunn Jr.	1880–1888		elected Jul 1880
Thomas Elder	1863–1869 1871–1878
Thomas English	1865–1878 1882–1885		returned 1877
William Everard	1873–1878
Joseph Fisher	1873–1881	Feb. 1881
Alexander Hay	1873–1881	Feb. 1881
Thomas Hogarth	1866–1885
Henry Kent Hughes	1877–1880		elected Apr. 1877, resigned 1880
William Milne	1869–1881	Feb. 1881
William Morgan	1867–1884		returned 1877
Alexander Borthwick Murray	1880–1888		elected Jul. 1880
James Pearce	1877–1885		elected April 1877
James Garden Ramsay	1880–1890		elected Jul. 1880
William Sandover	1873–1885
Philip Santo	1871–1881	Feb. 1881
Henry Scott	1878–1891		elected Sep. 1878
William Storrie	1871–1878
Robert Alfred Tarlton	1873–1888	Feb. 1881
Charles Burney Young	1878–1880		resigned 1880

References

Parliament of South Australia — Statistical Record of the Legislature

^ "Colonial Constitutions". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 16 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "The New Parliament". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 26 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Our First Parliament". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 8 March 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.

[1] "Colonial Constitutions". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 16 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] "The New Parliament". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 26 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.

[3] "Our First Parliament". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 8 March 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 28 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.

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