Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1908–1909

This is a list of members of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from February 1908 to October 1909, as elected at the 1908 state election held on 5 February 1908.^[1]

The Philp Ministry did not command a majority on the floor of the Assembly during its short term of government, and the Assembly was dissolved, resulting in gains for both the Kidston Party and Labour, and the return of William Kidston as Premier. However, in late 1908, the two non-Labour parties merged into a new grouping known as the Ministerial party (a generic form referring to supporters of the Ministry). As not all members of the original parties supported the new Government, Kidston called another election — the third in 29 months — for 2 October 1909.

Name	Party (pre-1908)	Party (post-1908)	Electorate	Term in office
John Adamson	Labour	Labour	Maryborough	1907–1909; 1911–1917
Peter Airey	Kidston	Opposition	South Brisbane	1901–1907; 1908–1909
Frank Allen^[1]	N/A	Labour	Bulloo	1909–1912
John Appel	Conservative	Ministerial	Albert	1908–1929
William Armstrong	Conservative	Ministerial	Lockyer	1893–1904; 1907–1918
George Barber	Labour	Labour	Bundaberg	1901–1935
George Barnes	Farmers' Rep.	Ministerial	Warwick	1908–1935
Walter Barnes	Conservative	Ministerial	Bulimba	1901–1915; 1918–1933
Edward Barton	Kidston	Ministerial	Brisbane North	1908–1909
Joshua Thomas Bell	Kidston	Ministerial	Dalby	1893–1911
James Blair	Kidston	Opposition	Ipswich	1902–1915
David Bowman	Labour	Labour	Fortitude Valley	1899–1902; 1904–1916
James Brennan	Kidston	Ministerial	North Rockhampton	1907–1912
John Dunmore Campbell^[2]	Conservative	Ministerial	Moreton	1899–1909
Richard John Cottell	Kidston	Ministerial	Toowong	1908–1911
Henri Cowap	Kidston	Ministerial	Fitzroy	1902–1909
Harry Coyne	Labour	Labour	Warrego	1908–1923
James Cribb	Conservative	Ministerial	Bundamba	1893–1896; 1899–1915
Digby Denham	Conservative	Ministerial	Oxley	1902–1915
Henry Douglas	Kidston	Opposition	Cook	1907–1915
Edward Barrow Forrest	Conservative	Ministerial	Brisbane North	1899–1912
James Forsythe^[2]	N/A	Ministerial	Moreton	1899–1907; 1909–1918
George Fox	Conservative	Ministerial	Normanby	1877–1878; 1901–1914
Kenneth Grant	Kidston	Ministerial	Rockhampton	1902–1915
Francis Grayson	Conservative	Ministerial	Cunningham	1904–1920
Donald Gunn	Independent	Ministerial	Carnarvon	1907–1920
William Hamilton	Labour	Labour	Gregory	1899–1915
Patrick Hanran	Conservative	Ministerial	Townsville	1899–1909
Herbert Hardacre	Labour	Labour	Leichhardt	1893–1919
Arthur Hawthorn	Kidston	Ministerial	Enoggera	1902–1911
Robert Herbertson	Kidston	Opposition	Port Curtis	1904–1909
David Hunter	Kidston	Ministerial	Woolloongabba	1908–1912
John Hunter	Labour	Labour	Maranoa	1907–1919
John Huxham	Labour	Labour	South Brisbane	1908–1909, 1912–1924
George Jackson	Kidston	Ministerial	Kennedy	1893–1909
Charles Moffatt Jenkinson	Conservative	Opposition	Fassifern	1898–1902; 1903–1909
Alfred Jones	Labour	Labour	Burnett	1904–1909, 1915–1917, 1922–1932
Francis Kenna	Kidston	Opposition	Bowen	1902–1909
Denis Keogh	Conservative	Ministerial	Rosewood	1896–1902; 1904–1911
George Kerr	Kidston	Opposition	Barcoo	1893–1909
William Kidston	Kidston	Ministerial	Rockhampton	1896–1911
Edward Land	Labour	Labour	Balonne	1904–1927
John Leahy^[1]	Conservative	Ministerial	Bulloo	1893–1909
William Lennon	Labour	Labour	Herbert	1907–1920
Vincent Lesina	Labour	Labour	Clermont	1899–1912
Donald MacKintosh	Kidston	Ministerial	Cambooya	1899–1915
Peter McLachlan	Labour	Labour	Fortitude Valley	1908–1912, 1915–1920, 1923–1929
John Mann	Kidston	Opposition	Cairns	1904–1912
William Maxwell	Kidston	Ministerial	Burke	1899–1909
John May	Labour	Labour	Flinders	1907–1917
William Mitchell	Labour	Labour	Maryborough	1904–1909
William Moore	Conservative	Ministerial	Murilla	1898–1904; 1907–1909
Daniel Mulcahy	Labour	Labour	Gympie	1901–1912
John Mullan	Labour	Labour	Charters Towers	1908–1912, 1918–1941
William Murphy	Kidston	Opposition	Croydon	1904–1907; 1908–1918
Thomas Nevitt	Labour	Labour	Carpentaria	1907–1912
Walter Paget	Conservative	Ministerial	Mackay	1901–1915
John Payne	Labour	Labour	Mitchell	1905–1928
Andrew Lang Petrie	Conservative	Ministerial	Toombul	1893–1926
Robert Philp	Conservative	Ministerial	Townsville	1886–1915
Colin Rankin	Kidston	Ministerial	Burrum	1905–1918
Vernon Redwood	Kidston	Opposition	Drayton & Toowoomba	1907–1909
Robert Roberts	Kidston	Ministerial	Drayton & Toowoomba	1907–1934
George Ryland	Labour	Labour	Gympie	1899–1912
William Ryott Maughan	Labour	Labour	Ipswich	1898–1899; 1904–1912
Henry Plantagenet Somerset	Conservative	Ministerial	Stanley	1904–1920
James Stodart	Conservative	Ministerial	Logan	1896–1918
Richard Sumner	Kidston	Opposition	Nundah	1907–1909
Edward Swayne	Conservative	Ministerial	Mackay	1907–1935
William Thorn	Farmers' Rep.	Ministerial	Aubigny	1894–1904; 1908–1912
Harry Walker	Conservative	Ministerial	Wide Bay	1907–1947
John White	Conservative	Ministerial	Musgrave	1903–1904; 1907–1915
Vern Winstanley	Labour	Labour	Charters Towers	1908–1932
Michael Woods	Kidston	Opposition	Woothakata	1902–1909

¹ On 20 January 1909, John Leahy, the Ministerial member for Bulloo, died. Labour candidate Frank Allen won the resulting by-election on 27 March 1909.

² On 27 May 1909, John Dunmore Campbell, the Ministerial member for Moreton, died. Ministerial candidate James Forsythe won the resulting by-election on 19 June 1909.

See also

• Queensland state election, 1908
• Second Kidston Ministry (Kidston/Ministerial) (1908–1911)

References

1. "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

• Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
• Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.
• Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1968). A handbook of Australian government and politics, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0270-0.