Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1883–1886

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 23 February 1883 to the elections of 5 March 1886. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

 Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.

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Name	Electorate	Term in Office
William Anderson	Villiers & Heytesbury	1880–1892
Richard Baker	Wimmera	1883–1894
Henry Bell	Ballarat West	1877–1886
Thomas Bent	Brighton	1871–1894; 1900–1909
Graham Berry	Geelong	1861–1865; 1869–1886; 1892–1897
George Billson	Ovens	1877–1880; 1883–1886
Henry Bolton [a]	Moira	1880–1884
Joseph Bosisto	Richmond	1874–1889; 1892–1894
Robert Bowman [b]	Maryborough & Talbot	1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893
Robert Burrowes	Sandhurst	1866–1877; 1880–1893
Ewen Cameron	Evelyn	1874–1914
Alfred Clark	Williamstown	1871–1887
William Clark	Footscray	1879–1894
Joseph Connor	Geelong	1864–1871; 1874–1877; 1882–1886
Thomas Cooper	Creswick	1877–1889
George Selth Coppin	East Melbourne	1874–1877; 1883–1889
George Cunningham	Geelong	1864–1874; 1881–1886
David Davies	Grenville	1877–1894
Matthew Davies	St Kilda	1883–1892
Alfred Deakin	West Bourke	1879–1879; 1880–1900
Frederick Derham	Sandridge	1883–1892
John Dow	Kara Kara	1877–1893
John Gavan Duffy	Dalhousie	1874–1886; 1887–1904
George Fincham	Ballarat West	1875–1886
Benjamin Fink	Maryborough & Talbot	1883–1889
James Francis [c]	Warrnambool	1859–1874; 1878–1884
John Gardiner	Carlton	1880–1891
James Gibb	Mornington	1880–1886
Duncan Gillies	Rodney	1861–1868; 1870–1894; 1897–1903
James Macpherson Grant [g]	Avoca	1856–1870; 1871–1885
James Graves	Delatite	1877–1900; 1902–1904
George Hall	Moira	1880–1891
Robert Harper	East Bourke	1879–1880; 1882–1889; 1891–1897
Albert Harris	North Gippsland	1883–1910
Joseph Harris	St Kilda	1880–1894; 1897–1904
Thomas Hunt	Kilmore and Anglesey	1874–1892; 1903–1908
John James	Ballarat East	1869–1870; 1871–1886
George Kerferd	Ovens	1864–1886
John Keys	South Bourke	1880–1894; 1897–1900
Peter Lalor	Grant	1856–1871; 1874–1889
Thomas Langdon	Avoca	1880–1889; 1892–1914
George Langridge	Collingwood	1874–1891
John Laurens	North Melbourne	1877–1892
Jonas Levien	Barwon	1871–1877; 1880–1906
Hugh McColl [d]	Mandurang	1880–1885
Robert MacGregor [e]	Emerald Hill	1877–1879; 1880–1883
John McIntyre	Maldon	1877–1880; 1881–1902
Angus Mackay	Sandhurst	1868–1880; 1883–1886
Allan McLean	North Gippsland	1880–1901
William McLellan	Ararat	1859–1877; 1883–1897
Charles MacMahon	West Melbourne	1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
John Madden	Belfast	1883–1888
Walter Madden	Wimmera	1880–1894
Francis Mason	South Gippsland	1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902
James Mirams	Collingwood	1876–1886; 1887–1889
Thompson Moore	Mandurang	1871–1880; 1883–1886
John Nimmo	Emerald Hill	1877–1892
Charles Myles Officer	Dundas	1880–1892
James Orkney [f]	West Melbourne	1861–1864; 1880–1885
James Patterson	Castlemaine	1870–1895
Charles Henry Pearson	East Bourke Boroughs	1878–1892
John Quick	Sandhurst	1880–1889
John Rees	Grant	1877–1889
Robert Dyce Reid	Fitzroy	1883–1889; 1894–1897
Richard Richardson	Creswick	1874–1886; 1889–1894
William Robertson	Polwarth & South Grenville	1871–1874; 1880; 1881–1886
James Rose	North Melbourne	1883–1889
James Russell	Ballarat East	1880; 1883–1889
James Service	Castlemaine	1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
James Shackell	Rodney	1883–1892
William Shiels	Normanby	1880–1904
Charles Smith	Richmond	1883–1892
William Collard Smith	Ballarat West	1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
James Toohey	Villiers & Heytesbury	1880–1889
Albert Tucker	Fitzroy	1874–1900
William Uren	Ripon & Hampden	1883–1892
William Walker	Boroondara	1880; 1882–1889
Peter Wallace	Benambra	1880–1886
James Wheeler	Creswick	1864–1867; 1880–1900
John Woods	Stawell	1859–1864; 1871–1892
Henry Wrixon	Portland	1868–1877; 1880–1894
Charles Yeo	Mandurang	1883–1886
Alexander Young	Grenville	1880–1894
Charles Young	Kyneton Boroughs	1874–1892
Ephraim Zox	East Melbourne	1877–1899

^[a] Bolton resigned in April 1884; replaced by George Graham, sworn-in June 1884.

^[b] Bowman resigned in December 1885; replaced by Alfred Richard Outtrim the same month.

^[c] Francis died 25 January 1884; replaced by John Murray, sworn-in June 1884.

^[d] McColl died 2 April 1885; replaced by John Moore Highett, sworn-in July 1885.

^[e] MacGregor died 18 September 1883; replaced by David Gaunson, sworn-in October 1883.

^[f] Orkney resigned October 1885; replaced by Godfrey Carter, sworn-in November 1885

^[g] Grant died 1 April 1885; replaced by George Enright Bourchier, sworn-in June 1885.

References

• Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. pp. 182–183. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
• "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
• Victorian Hansard, Session 1883 (PDF). Vol. 42. John Ferres, Melb. 1883.