Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1857–1861

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1857 to February 1861.

This was the first Legislative Council to be elected under the new Constitution, which provided for a house consisting of eighteen members to be elected from the whole State acting as one Electoral District; 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]

Name	Time in office	Term expires	Previously represented / Notes
George Fife Angas	1851–	Feb. 1865	Barossa
Henry Ayers	1857–	Feb. 1869
Charles Hervey Bagot	1851–1853 1857–1861 1865–1869	Feb. 1861	Light
John Baker	1851–1861 1863–1872	Feb. 1861	Mount Barker
Samuel Davenport	1855–	Feb. 1873	Non-Official nominee
Charles Davies MD	1857–	Feb. 1865
Charles G. Everard	1857–	Feb. 1869
James Hurtle Fisher	1855–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
Anthony Forster	1855–	Feb. 1873	West Adelaide
Arthur Henry Freeling	1855–1859	Feb 1861	Official nominee (Surveyor-General). Resigned August 1859
Edward Castres Gwynne	1851–1859	Feb. 1861	Non-Official nominee. Vacated seat August 1859 to take position of Supreme Court judge.
George Hall	1851–	Feb. 1869	Port Adelaide
John Morphett	1851–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran	1857–1863	Feb. 1865
Abraham Scott	1857–1867	Feb. 1873
William Scott	1855–	Feb. 1869	Port Adelaide
Edward Stirling	1855–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
George Tinline	1860–1863	Feb. 1869	elected April 1860 to fill vacancy; seat declared vacant June 1863
George Waterhouse	1860–	Feb. 1869	elected April 1860 to fill vacancy
William Younghusband	1851–1861	Feb. 1861	Stanley

References

1. "Colonial Constitutions". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 16 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
2. "The New Parliament". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 26 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
3. "Our First Parliament". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 8 March 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

Members of the Parliament of South Australia

Legislative Council 1855–1857 • 1857–1861 • 1861–1865

House of Assembly 1857–1860 • 1860–1862 • 1862–1865