Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1868–1870
Introduction This is a list of '''members of the 4th Legislative Assembly of Queensland''' from 1868 to 1870, as elected at the 1868 colonial elections held between 14 September 1868 and 6 October 1868 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day). Name Electorate Term in office Archibald Archer  Rockhampton  1867–1869; 1878–1886;1888–1896 Robert Travers Atkin  ClermontEast Moreton  1868–1869; 1870–1872 Joshua Peter Bell  Northern Downs  1862–1879 John Robinson Benson  Clermont  1870–1870 Rt Hon John Bright  Kennedy  1869–1870 Archibald Berdmore Buchanan  Mitchell  1870; 1871–1873 Oscar de Satge  Clermont  1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 John Douglas  East Moreton  1863–1866; 1867–1868;1875–1880 George Edmondstone  Town of Brisbane  1860–1867; 1869–1877 Gilbert Eliott  Wide Bay  1860–1870 John Ferrett  West Moreton  1860–1863; 1870–1873 Thomas Henry FitzGerald  Kennedy  1867–1869; 1873–1875 Frederick Forbes  West Moreton  1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 Arthur Francis  East Moreton  1867–1870 Simon Fraser  Town of Brisbane  1868–1870; 1873–1878;1880–1888 Alexander Fyfe   Rockhampton  1870–1873 William Henry Groom  Drayton and Toowoomba  1862–1901 Charles Haly  Burnett  1860–1863; 1865–1867;1869–1871; 1876–1878 Hon Arthur Hodgson  Warrego  1868–1869 Samuel Hodgson  West Moreton  1868–1870 Henry Jordan  East Moreton  1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Edward Lamb  Mitchell  1867–1869 Charles Lilley  Hamlet of Fortitude Valley  1860–1873 Arthur Macalister  Eastern Downs  1860–1871; 1872–1876 Thomas McIlwraith  Warrego  1870–1871; 1873–1886;1888–1896 Robert Mackenzie  Burnett  1860–1869 William Miles  Maranoa  1864–1873; 1874–1875;1876–1887 Henry Milford   Rockhampton  1869–1870 John Murphy  Town of Ipswich  1867–1870 Kevin O'Doherty  Town of Brisbane  1867–1873 Hon Arthur Hunter Palmer  Port Curtis  1866–1881 Ratcliffe Pring  Burnett  1860–1862; 1863–1866;1867–1872; 1873–1874;1878–1879 Theophilus Parsons Pugh  Town of Brisbane  1863–1869 Robert Ramsay  Western Downs  1867–1873 Charles Royds  Leichhardt  1860–1864; 1868–1872 Gordon Sandeman  Leichhardt  1863–1870 Thomas Blacket Stephens  Town of South Brisbane  1863–1875 James Taylor  Western Downs  1860–1870 John Malbon Thompson  Town of Ipswich  1868–1881 George Thorn  West Moreton  1867–1874; 1876–1878;1879–1883; 1887–1888;1893–1902 Edmond Thornton  Warwick  1868–1870; 1871–1873 William Henry Walsh  Maryborough  1865–1878 Henry Williams  Town of Ipswich  1868–1870
See also *Premier:: Robert Mackenzie (1867–1868): Charles Lilley (1868–1870)
Notes : On 11 December 1868, John Douglas, member for East Moreton, resigned. Henry Jordan won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1868.: On 29 January 1869, Robert Travers Atkin, member for Clermont, resigned. Oscar de Satge won the resulting by-election on 4 March 1869.: On 30 January 1869, Theophilus Parsons Pugh, member for Town of Brisbane, resigned. George Edmondstone was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election on 10 February 1869.: On 6 April 1869, Robert Mackenzie, former Premier and member for Burnett, retired from politics and departed for Europe. Charles Haly won the resulting by-election on 21 April 1869.: On 11 June 1869, Thomas Henry FitzGerald, member for Kennedy, resigned. Rt Hon John Bright, an English Radical politician who was endorsed as a form of protest, won the resulting by-election on 10 July 1869.He never took his seat in the Queensland Parliament. : On 19 November 1869, Archibald Archer, member for Rockhampton, resigned. Henry Milford won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1869, although did not take his seat. : On 23 November 1869, Arthur Hodgson, the member for Warrego, resigned. Thomas McIlwraith won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1870.: On 3 December 1869, Edward Lamb, member for Mitchell, resigned. Archibald Berdmore Buchanan won the resulting by-election on 8 February 1870; however, it emerged he had not nominated as a candidate and had been elected against his own wishes, and he resigned two days later. : On 17 February 1870, Arthur Francis, member for East Moreton, resigned due to insolvency. After Robert Cribb withdrew his nomination, Robert Travers Atkin was elected unopposed on 17 February 1870.: On 4 April 1870, Oscar de Satge, member for the Clermont resigned. John Robinson Benson won the resulting by-election on 4 May 1870.: On 7 June 1870, Henry Milford, member for Rockhampton since a December 1869 by-election, resigned. He stood again at the resulting by-election on 20 June 1870, but was defeated by Alexander Fyfe. : On 13 June 1870, Samuel Hodgson, member for West Moreton, resigned. John Ferrett won the resulting by-election on 25 June 1870.
References * Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001. *  Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)