Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1893–1896

This is a list of members of the 11th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1893 to 1896, as elected at the 1893 colonial election held between 18 April 1893 and 25 May 1893 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).[1]

Name	Party	Electorate	Term in office
George Agnew	Ministerialist	Nundah	1888–1896
William Allan	Ministerialist	Cunningham	1881–1883; 1887–1896
John Annear	Ministerialist	Maryborough	1884–1902
Archibald Archer	Independent	Rockhampton	1867–1869; 1878–1886; 1888–1896
William Drayton Armstrong	Ministerialist	Lockyer	1893–1904; 1907–1918
Andrew Henry Barlow	Ministerialist	Ipswich	1888–1896
Matthew Battersby	Ministerialist	Moreton	1888–1899
Joshua Thomas Bell	Ministerialist	Dalby	1893–1911
Jason Boles	Opposition	Port Curtis	1893–1904
William Browne	Labour	Croydon	1893–1904
George Burns^[1]	Ministerialist	Townsville	1893–1893
Thomas Joseph Byrnes	Ministerialist	Cairns	1893–1898
James Cadell	Independent	Burnett	1891–1896
Albert Callan	Ind./Min.	Fitzroy	1889–1902
John Cameron	Opp./Min.	Mitchell	1893–1896; 1901–1908
James Chataway	Ministerialist	Mackay	1893–1901
William Henry Corfield	Ministerialist	Gregory	1888–1899
Alfred Cowley	Ministerialist	Herbert	1888–1907
James Cribb	Ministerialist	Rosewood	1893–1896; 1899–1915
James Crombie	Ministerialist	Warrego	1888–1898
John Cross	Labour	Clermont	1893–1899
George Curtis	Ind./Opp.	Rockhampton	1893–1902
David Dalrymple	Ministerialist	Mackay	1888–1904
Henry Daniels	Farmers/Labour	Cambooya	1893–1899
Anderson Dawson	Labour	Charters Towers	1893–1901
James Dickson	Min./Ind.	Bulimba	1873–1888; 1892–1901
James Drake	Opposition	Enoggera	1888–1899
Michael Duffy	Ministerialist	Bundaberg	1893–1896
John Dunsford	Labour	Charters Towers	1893–1905
Andrew Fisher	Labour	Gympie	1893–1896; 1899–1901
John Fogarty	Labour/Opp.	Drayton and Toowoomba	1893–1904
Justin Foxton	Ministerialist	Carnarvon	1883–1904
Thomas Glassey^[3]	Labour	Burke	1888–1893; 1894–1901
Samuel Grimes	Ministerialist	Oxley	1878–1902
William Henry Groom	Opposition	Drayton and Toowoomba	1862–1901
John Hamilton	Ministerialist	Cook	1878–1904
Herbert Hardacre	Labour	Leichhardt	1893–1919
William Harding	Ind./Opp.	North Rockhampton	1893–1896
John Hoolan^[3]	Labour	Burke	1890–1894; 1896–1899
George Jackson	Labour	Kennedy	1893–1909
George Kerr	Labour	Barcoo	1893–1909
Robert King	Labour	Maranoa	1893–1899
John James Kingsbury	Ministerialist	North Brisbane	1893–1896
John Leahy	Independent	Bulloo	1893–1909
Frederick Lord	Ministerialist	Stanley	1893–1902
William Lovejoy^[4]	Opposition	Aubigny	1893–1894
Charles McDonald	Labour	Flinders	1893–1901
John MacFarlane^[2]	Ministerialist	Ipswich	1878–1894
Thomas McIlwraith	Ministerialist	North Brisbane	1870–1871; 1873–1886; 1888–1896
John McMaster	Ministerialist	Fortitude Valley	1885–1899; 1901–1904; 1907–1908
Charles Midson	Ministerialist	South Brisbane	1893–1896
Boyd Dunlop Morehead	Ministerialist	Balonne	1871–1880; 1883–1896
Arthur Morgan	Opposition	Warwick	1887–1896; 1898–1906
John Murray	Ministerialist	Normanby	1888–1901
Hugh Nelson	Ministerialist	Murilla	1883–1898
William O'Connell	Ministerialist	Musgrave	1888–1903
Anthony Ogden^[1]	Labour	Townsville	1894–1896
Andrew Lang Petrie^[5]	Ministerialist	Toombul	1893–1926
George Phillips	Ministerialist	Carpentaria	1893–1896
Robert Philp	Ministerialist	Townsville	1886–1915
Thomas Plunkett	Ministerialist	Albert	1888–1896; 1899–1908
Charles Powers	Opposition	Maryborough	1888–1896
William Rawlings	Labour	Woothakata	1893–1896
Matthew Reid	Labour	Toowong	1893–1896; 1899–1902
Robert Harrison Smith	Ministerialist	Bowen	1888–1902
William Smyth	Ministerialist	Gympie	1883–1899
William Stephens	Ministerialist	Woolloongabba	1888–1904; 1907–1908
Ernest James Stevens	Independent	Logan	1878–1896
Lewis Thomas	Ministerialist	Bundamba	1893–1899
George Thorn	Ministerialist	Fassifern	1867–1874; 1876–1878; 1879–1883; 1887–1888; 1893–1902
William Thorn^[4]	Opposition	Aubigny	1894–1904; 1908–1912
Nicholas Tooth	Ministerialist	Burrum	1893–1902
Horace Tozer	Ministerialist	Wide Bay	1871; 1888–1898
Henry Turley	Labour	South Brisbane	1893–1902
John Watson	Ministerialist	Fortitude Valley	1888–1896
James Wilkinson^[2]	Labour	Ipswich	1894–1896

See also

• Premier:

Thomas McIlwraith (Ministerialist) (1893)

Hugh Nelson (Ministerialist) (1893–1898)

Notes

¹ On 5 November 1893, George Burns, one of the two Ministerialist members for Townsville, died. Labour candidate Anthony Ogden won the resulting by-election held on 20 January 1894.

² On 7 March 1894, John MacFarlane, one of the two Ministerialist members for Ipswich, died. Labour candidate James Wilkinson won the resulting by-election on 31 March 1894.

³ On 12 March 1894, John Hoolan, the Labour member for Burke, resigned in order that party leader Thomas Glassey, who had lost his seat at the 1893 election, could re-enter Parliament. Glassey did so at the resulting by-election on 16 June 1894.

⁴ On 17 July 1894, the seat of Aubigny was declared vacant due to the insolvency of sitting Opposition member William Lovejoy.[2] However, following an arrangement with his creditors, he was again eligible to be a member of parliament and stood for re-election at the resulting by-election on 4 August 1894.[3] However, Opposition candidate William Thorn won the resulting by-election by a narrow margin of 8 votes.[4]

⁵ On 17 July 1894, the seat of Toombul was declared vacant due to the insolvency of sitting Ministerialist member Andrew Lang Petrie.[2] However, following an arrangement with his creditors, he was again eligible to be a member of parliament and was re-elected at the resulting by-election on 4 August 1894.[5]

References

1. "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
2. "POLITICAL POINTS". Warwick Argus. Qld. 21 July 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 24 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "POLITICAL PARS". Warwick Examiner and Times. Qld. 4 August 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 24 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "QUEENSLAND". Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate. NSW. 7 August 1894. p. 5. Retrieved 24 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "QUEENSLAND NEWS". The Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Qld. 6 August 1894. p. 5. Retrieved 24 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

• Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860–1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
• Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.