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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1875-1878
TABLE N (contd.)
Table showing the Electoral Districts for the House of Assembly, Names of the respective Representatives, etc. - contd.
EIGHTH PARLIAMENT
Assembled May 6, 1875. Dissolved March 13, 1878. Four Sessions.
No. of
Mem-
bers
(in-
creased
to 46)
Electoral Districts altered by
Act No. 27 of 1872
Date of
Election
Members Names
2
1.
East Adelaide................
Feb. 10, 1875
John Cox Bray
William Kay
2
2.
West Adelaide ..............
Feb. 10, 1875
William Knox Simms, succeeded by John Darling, sen.
(Resigned Jun. 13, 1876)
(Elected Jun. 21, 1876)
Thomas Johnson
1
3.
North Adelaide .............
Feb. 10, 1875
Hon. Arthur Blyth, succeeded by Neville Blyth
(Accepted office Feb. 21, 1877)
(Elected Mar. 14, 1877)
3
4.
Wallaroo.......................
Feb. 22, 1875
John James Duncan
John Richards
Matthew Henry Madge, succeeded by Robert Dalrymple Ross
(Unseated May 20, 1875)
(Elected Jun. 4, 1875)
2
5.
Port Adelaide................
Feb. 22, 1875
William Quin
David Bower
2
6.
West Torrens ................
Feb. 10, 1875
Benjamin Taylor, succeeded by John Mitchell Sinclair
(Resigned Sept. 19, 1876)
(Elected Sept. 27, 1876)
John Pickering
2
7.
Yatala ...........................
Feb. 10, 1875
Wentworth Cavenagh
(Resigned May 6, 1875; re-elected May 17, 1875)
Lavington Glyde, succeeded by Thomas Cowan
(Resigned May 6, 1875)
(Elected May 17, 1875)
2
8.
Gumeracha ...................
Feb. 12, 1875
Ebenezer Ward
Frederick Hannaford
2
9.
East Torrens..................
Feb. 10, 1875
Édwin Thomas Smith, succeeded by David Murray
(Resigned Mar. 1, 1877)
(Elected Mar. 27, 1877)
Thomas Playford
2
10. Sturt ..............................
Feb. 10, 1875
William Townsend
Samuel James Way, succeeded by Thomas King
(Resigned Mar. 20, 1876)
(Elected Apr. 10, 1876)
2
11. Noarlunga .....................
Feb. 16, 1875
John Carr
John Colton
2
12. Mount Barker ...............
Feb. 22, 1875
Albert Henry Landseer
William Alexander Erskine West-Erskine, succeeded by James
Garden Ramsay
(Resigned April 21, 1876)
(Elected May 1, 1876)
2
13. Onkaparinga .................
Feb. 22, 1875
William Henry Dunn
Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff
2
14. Encounter Bay..............
Feb. 22, 1875
James Penn Boucaut
Arthur Fydell Lindsay
2
15. Barossa .........................
Feb. 22, 1875
John
Howard
Angas,
succeeded
by
Martin
Peter
Friedrich
Basedow
(Resigned May 10, 1876)
(Elected May 20, 1876)
Johann Wilhelm Albrecht Sudholz, succeeded by John Dunn, jun.
(Unseated May 22, 1875)
(Elected Jun. 9, 1875)
3
16. Light .............................
Feb. 12, 1875
Randolph Isham Stow, succeeded by Jenkin Coles
(Resigned May 6, 1875)
(Elected May 17, 1875)
David Nock
James White
2
17. Victoria.........................
Feb. 22, 1875
George Charles Hawker
John Ingleby, succeeded by Hon. Lavington Glyde
(Resigned Apr. 11, 1877)
(Elected May 17, 1877)
2
18. Albert............................
Feb. 22, 1875
Mountifort Longfield Connor, succeeded by William Rodolph
Wigley
(Resigned Jun. 23, 1875)
(Elected Jul. 12, 1875;
Arthur Hardy
resigned Mar. 5, 1878;
no new writ issued)
2
19. Burra.............................
Feb. 16, 1875
Rowland Rees
William Benjamin Rounsevell
2
20. Stanley..........................
Feb. 12, 1875
Sir George Strickland Kingston
Charles Mann
2
21. Wooroora......................
Feb. 11, 1875
James Pearce, succeeded by John Bosworth
(Resigned Jul. 27, 1875)
(Elected Aug. 7, 1875)
Henry Edward Bright
3
22. Flinders.........................
Mar. 1, 1875
Ebenezer Cooke
Patrick Boyce Coglin
John Williams
46
Speaker - Sir George Strickland Kingston
Chairman of Committees - John Carr (May 12, 1875), who accepted office and was succeeded by
William Townsend elected June 22, 1876.
Clerk - George William de la Poer Beresford. Appointed February 16, 1857.
Clerk Assistant and Sergeant-at-Arms - Edwin Gordon Blackmore. Appointed December 24, 1869.