Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1873–1877

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1877.

This was the fifth 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]

Seven seats were contested - six by the "effluxion of time" (Ayers, Hodgkiss, Hogarth, Mildred, Morphett and Tuxford) and one to replace John Baker, who died the previous May.^[4]

Name	Time in office	Term expires	Notes
Henry Ayers	1857–1888 1888–1893	Feb. 1881
John Crozier	1867–1887	Feb. 1877
Walter Duffield	1873–1880		elected Feb. 1873
John Dunn	1869–1877	Feb. 1877
Thomas Elder	1863–1869 1871–1878
Thomas English	1865–1878 1882–1885
William Everard	1873–1878		elected Feb. 1873
Joseph Fisher	1873–1881	Feb. 1881
Alexander Hay	1873–1881	Feb. 1881	elected Feb. 1873
John Hodgkiss	1866–1872 1878–1884	Feb. 1877
Thomas Hogarth	1866–1885
William Milne	1869–1881	Feb. 1881
William Morgan	1867–1884	Feb. 1877
John Bentham Neales	1872–1873		died 1873
Alexander Borthwick Murray	1869–1877	Feb. 1877
William Parkin	1866–1877	Feb. 1877
William Sandover	1873–1885		elected Sep. 1873
Philip Santo	1871–1881	Feb. 1881
William Storrie	1871–1878
Robert Alfred Tarlton	1873–1881	Feb. 1881	elected Feb. 1873

References

• Parliament of South Australia — Statistical Record of the Legislature

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.
4. "The Elections". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 22 April 1873. p. 1 Supplement: Supplement to the South Australian Register. Retrieved 15 September 2014.

Members of the Parliament of South Australia

Legislative Council 1869–1873 • 1873–1877 • 1877–1881

House of Assembly 1871–1875 • 1875–1878 • 1878–1881