Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1870–1871

This is a list of members of the 5th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1870 to 1871, as elected at the 1870 colonial elections held between 27 July 1870 and 15 September 1870 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).

Name Electorate Term in office Robert Travers Atkin East Moreton 1868–1869; 1870–1872 Joshua Peter Bell Northern Downs 1862–1879 John Bramston Burnett 1871–1873 Benjamin Cribb Town of Ipswich 1861–1867; 1870–1873 Oscar de Satge Clermont 1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 George Edmondstone Town of Brisbane 1860–1867; 1869–1877 John Ferrett West Moreton 1860–1863; 1870–1873 Frederick Forbes West Moreton 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 Alexander Fyfe Rockhampton 1870–1873 William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901 Charles Robert Haly Burnett 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1869–1871; 1876–1878 John Handy Mitchell 1870–1871; 1872–1873 John Johnston Town of Ipswich 1870–1872 Henry Jordan East Moreton 1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Henry Edward King Wide Bay 1870–1871; 1871–1873; 1874–1883 Charles Lilley Hamlet of Fortitude Valley 1860–1873 Arthur Macalister Eastern Downs 1860–1871; 1872–1876 Edward MacDevitt Kennedy 1870–1874 Thomas McIlwraith Warrego 1870–1871; 1873–1886;1888–1896 William Miles Maranoa 1864–1873; 1874–1875;1876–1887 Berkeley Basil Moreton Burnett 1870–1871; 1873–1875;1883–1888 James Morgan Warwick 1870–1871; 1873–1878 Kevin O'Doherty Town of Brisbane 1867–1873 Arthur Hunter Palmer Port Curtis 1866–1881 Ratcliffe Pring Town of Brisbane 1860–1862; 1863–1866;1867–1872; 1873–1874;1878–1879 Robert Ramsay Western Downs 1867–1873 Charles Royds Leichhardt 1860–1864; 1868–1872 John Scott Leichhardt 1868, 1870–1888 Thomas Blacket Stephens Town of South Brisbane 1863–1875 John Malbon Thompson Town of Ipswich 1868–1881 George Thorn West Moreton 1867–1874; 1876–1878;1879–1883; 1887–1888;1893–1902 William Henry Walsh Maryborough 1865–1878 Edward Wienholt Western Downs 1870–1875

See also Premier: Arthur Hunter Palmer (1870–1874)

Notes On 23 March 1871, Charles Haly, member for Burnett, resigned. John Bramston won the resulting by-election on 3 April 1871.

References

Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860–1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001. Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament) Brisbane Courier variously over 1871–1873