Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1895–1898

This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 17th parliament of New South Wales from 1895 to 1898. They were elected at the 1895 colonial election on 24 July 1895. The Speaker was Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott.

Name	Party	Electorate	Term in office
Joseph Palmer Abbott	Prot	Wentworth	1880–1901
William Affleck	FT	Yass	1894–1904
George Anderson	FT	Waterloo	1894–1904
James Ashton	FT	Hay	1894–1907
Richard Ball	FT	Albury	1895–1898 1904–1937
John Barnes	Prot	Gundagai	1889–1904
Thomas Bavister	FT	Ashfield	1891–1898
George Black	Labor	Sydney-Gipps	1891–1898 1910–1917
Herbert Brown	Prot	Durham	1875–1898
Thomas Brown	Labor	Condobolin	1894–1901 1913–1917
James Brunker	FT	East Maitland	1880–1904
Charles Bull	FT	Camden	1895–1898
Angus Cameron ^3	FT	Waverley	1874–1889 1894–1896
Alexander Campbell	Prot	Kiama	1894–1904
Archibald Campbell	FT	Illawarra	1891–1903
John Cann	Labor	Broken Hill	1891–1916
James Carroll ^5	Prot	Lachlan	1894–1904
Joseph Carruthers	FT	St George	1887–1908
John Chanter	Prot	Deniliquin	1885–1901
Austin Chapman	Prot	Braidwood	1891–1901
Edward Clark	FT	St Leonards	1891–1904 1907–1910
Francis Clarke	Prot	Hastings and Macleay	1893–1898 1900–1901
Henry Clarke	Independent Protectionist	Bega	1869–1894, 1895–1904
Charles Collins ^6	FT	Narrabri	1885– 1887 1890–1898
Joseph Cook	FT	Hartley	1891–1901
Henry Copeland ^2	Prot	Sydney-Phillip	1877–1883, 1883–1895, 1895–1900
Francis Cotton	FT	Newtown-Camperdown	1891–1901
Paddy Crick	Prot	West Macquarie	1889–1906
George Cruickshank	Prot	Inverell	1889–1901
John Dacey	Labor	Botany	1895–1912
Thomas Davis	Labor	Sydney-Pyrmont	1891–1898
William Dick	FT	Newcastle East	1894–1907
Denis Donnelly ^4	Prot	Cowra	1891–1896
Alfred Edden	Labor	Kahibah	1891–1920
Thomas Ewing	Prot	Lismore	1885–1901
Frank Farnell	FT	Ryde	1887–1898 1901–1903
John Fegan	FT	Wickham	1891–1907 1920–1922
William Ferguson	Labor	Sturt	1894–1904
Robert Fitzgerald	Prot	Robertson	1885–1901
John Fitzpatrick ^1	FT	Rylstone	1895–1904 1907–1930
Thomas Fitzpatrick	Prot	Murrumbidgee	1894–1904
Jacob Garrard	FT	Sherbrooke	1880–1898
John Gillies	FT	West Maitland	1891–1911
Thomas Goodwin	Prot	Gunnedah	1887–1888, 1895–1901
James Gormly	Prot	Wagga Wagga	1885–1904
Albert Gould	FT	Singleton	1882–1898
James Graham	FT	Sydney-Belmore	1894–1901 1907–1910
George Greene	Independent Free Trade	Grenfell	1889–1891 1894 1895–1898
Arthur Hill Griffith	Labor	Waratah	1894–1903 1904–1920
Matthew Harris	FT	Sydney-Denison	1894–1901
James Harvey	FT	Sydney-Bligh	1895–1898
Thomas Hassall	Prot	Moree	1886–1901
John Hawthorne	FT	Leichhardt	1885–1891 1894–1904
James Hayes	Prot	Murray	1885–1904
John Haynes	FT	Wellington	1887–1904 1915–1917
James Hogue	FT	Glebe	1894–1910
Leslie Hollis	FT	Goulburn	1891–1898
George Howarth	FT	Willoughby	1895–1903
Billy Hughes	Labor	Sydney-Lang	1894–1901
William Hurley	Prot	Macquarie	1895–1904
Thomas Jessep ^3	FT	Waverley	1896–1907
Llewellyn Jones	FT	Petersham	1894–1898
Robert Jones	FT	Mudgee	1891–1998 1907–1910
Travers Jones	Prot	Tumut	1885–1891 1894–1898
Joseph Kelly	Prot	Tweed	1894–1898
Adrian Knox	FT	Woollahra	1894–1898
Sydney Law	Labor	Balmain South	1894–1907
Charles Lee	FT	Tenterfield	1884–1920
Robert Levien	Prot	Quirindi	1880–1913
Edmund Lonsdale	FT	Armidale	1891–1894 1895–1898 1901–1903 1907–1913
William Lyne	Prot	Hume	1880–1901
Hugh Macdonald	Labor	Coonamble	1894–1906
James Mackay	Prot	Boorowa	1895–1899
William Mahony	FT	Annandale	1894–1910
William McCourt	FT	Bowral	1882–1885 1887–1913
John McElhone ^7	Independent Free Trade	Sydney-Fitzroy	1875–1889 1895–1898
John McFarlane	Prot	Clarence	1887–1915
James McGowen	Labor	Redfern	1891–1917
John McLaughlin	Independent Protectionist	Raleigh	1880–1885 1895–1901
Francis McLean	FT	Marrickville	1894–1901
William McMillan	FT	Burwood	1887–1898
Richard Meagher ^2	Prot	Sydney-Phillip	1895 1898–1904 1907–1917
William Millard	FT	Moruya	1894–1920 1920–1921
Edward Millen	FT	Bourke	1894–1898
Gus Miller	Prot	Monaro	1889–1918
Edmund Molesworth	FT	Newtown-Erskine	1889–1901
Samuel Moore	FT	Bingara	1885–1910
William Morgan	FT	Hawkesbury	1894–1901
Philip Morton	Independent Free Trade	Shoalhaven	1889–1898
John Neild	Independent Free Trade	Paddington	1885–1889 1891–1894 1895–1901
Arthur Nelson	Prot	Sydney-Flinders	1895–1904
Henry Newman	FT	Orange	1891–1904
John Nicholson	Independent Labor	Woronora	1891–1917
John Norton ^7	Prot	Sydney-Fitzroy	1898–1906 1907–1910
Dowell O'Reilly	FT	Parramatta	1894–1898
Edward O'Sullivan	Prot	Queanbeyan	1885–1910
Varney Parkes	FT	Canterbury	1885–1888, 1891–1900 1907–1913
Hon John Perry	Prot	Ballina	1889–1920
Michael Phillips ^4	Prot	Cowra	1896–1898
Simeon Phillips	FT	Dubbo	1895–1904
Albert Piddington	FT	Tamworth	1895–1898
William Henry Piddington	FT	Uralla-Walcha	1894–1900
Richard Price	Prot	Gloucester	1894–1904 1907–1922
Robert Pyers	Prot	Richmond	1894–1904
George Reid	FT	Sydney-King	1880–1884 1885–1901
Joseph Reymond	Prot	Ashburnham	1895–1904
William Rigg	FT	Newtown-St Peters	1894–1901
Thomas Rose	Prot	Argyle	1891–1904
Andrew Ross	Prot	Molong	1880–1904
Hugh Ross ^6	Labor	Narrabri	1898–1901
William Schey	Prot	Darlington	1887–1898
John See	Prot	Grafton	1880–1904
Richard Sleath	Labor	Wilcannia	1894–1904
George Smailes	Labor	Granville	1895–1898
Sydney Smith	FT	Bathurst	1882–1898 1900
Thomas Smith	Prot	Nepean	1877–1887 1895–1898, 1901–1904
David Storey	FT	Randwick	1894–1920
Josiah Thomas	Labor	Alma	1894–1901
Dugald Thomson	FT	Warringah	1894–1901
James Thomson	Labor	Newcastle West	1895–1901
Thomas Waddell	Prot	Cobar	1897–1917
David Watkins	Labor	Wallsend	1894–1901
Chris Watson	Labor	Young	1894–1901
Henry Wheeler	FT	Northumberland	1895–1898
Samuel Whiddon	FT	Sydney-Cook	1894–1904
William Wilks	FT	Balmain North	1894–1901
William Willis	Prot	Barwon	1889–1904
William Wood	Prot	Eden-Bombala	1894–1913
Francis Wright	Prot	Glen Innes	1882–1885, 1889–1903
James Young	FT	Manning	1880–1901 1904–1907

By-elections

Under the constitution, ministers were required to resign to recontest their seats in a by-election when appointed. These by-elections are only noted when the minister was defeated; in general, he was elected unopposed.

#	Electorate	Departing Member	Party	Reason for By-election	Date of By-election	Winner of By-election	Party
1	Rylstone	John Fitzpatrick	FT	Election result voided on appeal	14/10/1895	John Fitzpatrick	FT
2	Sydney-Phillip	Richard Meagher	Prot	Disgraced during Dean Affair	17/10/1895	Henry Copeland	Prot
3	Waverley	Angus Cameron	FT	Death	18/02/1896	Thomas Jessep	FT
4	Cowra	Denis Donnelly	Prot	Death	27/03/1896	Michael Phillips	Prot
5	Lachlan	James Carroll	Prot	Financial difficulties	11/09/1896	James Carroll	Prot
6	Narrabri	Charles Collins	FT	Death	3/06/1898	Hugh Ross	Labor
7	Sydney-Fitzroy	John McElhone	Independent Free Trade	Death	3/06/1898	John Norton	Prot

See also

• Reid ministry

References

• "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
• Antony Green. "NSW Elections Analysis". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2009.

Members of the Parliament of New South Wales

Legislative Council 1894–1895 • 1895–1898 • 1898–1901

Legislative Assembly 1894–1895 • 1895–1898 • 1898–1901