Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1900–1902

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1900 to 1902.

This was the sixth Legislative Council to be affected by the amendments to the Constitution in 1881, which provided for the Colony to be divided into four districts: (1) Central; (2) Southern; (3) North-Eastern and (4) Northern, with six members in each division; one third of each to be replaced in rotation every three years. (Previously, the whole colony acted as one electoral district "The Province" with one third replaced at General Elections every four years.)

It was the first Legislative Council to be affected by provisions of the (State) Constitution Act 779 of 1901, which provided for, inter alia, a reduction in the number of seats from 24 to 18, realignment of District borders to encompass Assembly electorates, six-year terms (one half of the Council retiring every three years), and elections held jointly with the House.[1] As a result of this Act, brought in to realise some of the savings promised by Federation, a number of members had their expected terms cut short.

Name District Party Time in office Notes
Henry AdamsCentralLabor1894–1902vacated by Act 1902
Arthur AddisonNorthern1888–1915
Richard BakerSouthern1877–1901
John George BiceNorthern1894–1923
George BrookmanCentral1901–1910
David CharlestonCentral1897–1901
John DuncanNorth-EasternANL1891–1896
1900–1913
Kossuth William DuncanNorthern1900–1902vacated by Act 1902
John Hannah GordonSouthern1888–1892
1893–1903
resigned Dec. 1903
Robert GuthrieCentralLabor1891–1902
1902–1903
James Henderson HoweNorthern1897–1918
Charles KingstonCentral1900resigned Dec. 1900
Andrew KirkpatrickCentral1891–1897
1900–1909
1918–1928
John LewisNorth-Eastern
Northern
1898–1902
1902–1923
vacated by Act 1902
Edward LucasNorth-EasternANL1900–1918
Gregor McGregorSouthernLabor1894–1901
James O'LoghlinNorthernLabor1888–1902vacated by Act 1902
John Langdon ParsonsCentralANL1901–1903
Thomas PascoeNorth-Eastern1900–1933
George RiddochSouthernANL1901–1910
Alexander Wallace SandfordSouthern1897–1902vacated by Act 1902
Sir Edwin Thomas SmithSouthern1894–1902vacated by Act 1902
Lancelot StirlingSouthern1891–1932
Andrew TennantNorthern1898–1902vacated by Act 1902
Samuel TomkinsonSouthern
Central
1885–1894
1897–1900
died Aug.1900
Joseph VardonCentral1900–1906
Alfred von DoussaSouthern1901–1921
John WarrenNorth-Eastern1888–1912
Charles WillcoxNorth-Eastern1897–1902vacated by Act 1902

References

  1. "The New Constitution Act". The Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 March 1902. p. 15. Retrieved 25 October 2014. This article clearly lays out changes brought about by the Act, includes voter statistics and certain criticisms.
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