Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served from 1874 to 1877 were appointed for life by the Governor on the advice of the Premier . This list includes members between the beginning of the 1874–75 colonial election on 8 December 1874 and the beginning of the 1877 colonial election on 24 October 1877.[ 1] The President was John Hay .[ 5]
Name
Years in office
Office
George Allen
1856–1861, 1861–1877
John Blaxland
1863–1884
William Busby
1867–1887
William Byrnes
1858–1861, 1861–1891
Alexander Campbell
1864–1890
Charles Campbell
1870–1888
John Campbell
1856, 1861–1886
James Chisholm
1865–1888
Edward Cox
1874–1883
George Cox
1863–1901
William Dalley [ b]
1870–1873, 1875–1880, 1883–1888
Attorney General (9 February 1875 – 21 March 1877) (17 August 1877 – 17 December 1877)
Frederick Darley
1868–1886
Leopold De Salis
1874–1898
Joseph Docker
1856–1861, 1863–1884
Chairman of Committees (15 January 1873 – 9 February 1875) Minister of Justice and Public Instruction and Representative of the Government (9 February 1875 – 21 March 1877)Representative of the Government and Vice-President of the Executive Council (17 August 1877 – 17 December 1877)
John Fairfax [ e]
1874–1877
John Frazer
1874–1884
Samuel Gordon
1861–1882
William Grahame [ a]
1875–1889
John Hay
1867–1892
President
Thomas Holt
1868–1883
Sir Joseph Innes
1873–1881
Representative of the Government (13 September 1873 – 8 February 1875) Attorney General (20 November 1873 – 8 February 1875) Chairman of Committees (9 February 1875 – 16 December 1880)
Francis Lord
1856–1861, 1864–1893
Sir William Macarthur
1864–1882
Sir William Manning [ d]
1861–1876, 1888–1895
Jacob Montefiore [ f]
1856–1860, 1874–1877
Henry Moore
1868–1888
Edward Ogilvie
1863–1889
Robert Owen
1868–1878
John Richardson
1868–1887
Bourn Russell
1858–1861, 1861–1880
Saul Samuel
1872–1880
Postmaster-General and Vice-President of the Executive Council (3 December 1872 – 8 February 1875) (22 March 1877 – 16 August 1877)
Thomas Smart
1870–1881
John Smith
1874–1885
Sir Alfred Stephen [ c]
1856–1858, 1875–1879, 1879–1885, 1886–1890
Sir Edward Deas Thomson
1856–1861, 1861–1879
John Watt
1861–1866, 1874–1890
Elias Weekes
1865–1880
James White
1874–1890
See also
Notes
References
^ The changes to the composition of the council, in chronological order, were:
Grahame appointed,[ a]
Dalley appointed,[ b]
Stephen appointed,[ c]
Manning resigned,[ d]
Fairfax died,[ e]
Montefiore resigned,[ f]