Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1870–1871
Introduction This is a list of '''members of the 5th Legislative Assembly of Queensland''' from 1870 to 1871, as elected at the 1870 colonial elections held between 27 July 1870 and 15 September 1870 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day). Name Electorate Term in office Robert Travers Atkin  East Moreton  1868–1869; 1870–1872 Joshua Peter Bell  Northern Downs  1862–1879 John Bramston  Burnett  1871–1873 Benjamin Cribb  Town of Ipswich  1861–1867; 1870–1873 Oscar de Satge  Clermont  1869–1870; 1870–1872; 1873–1877; 1881–1882 George Edmondstone  Town of Brisbane  1860–1867; 1869–1877 John Ferrett  West Moreton  1860–1863; 1870–1873 Frederick Forbes  West Moreton  1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 Alexander Fyfe  Rockhampton  1870–1873 William Henry Groom  Drayton and Toowoomba  1862–1901 Charles Robert Haly  Burnett  1860–1863; 1865–1867;1869–1871; 1876–1878 John Handy  Mitchell  1870–1871; 1872–1873 John Johnston  Town of Ipswich  1870–1872 Henry Jordan  East Moreton  1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Henry Edward King  Wide Bay  1870–1871; 1871–1873; 1874–1883 Charles Lilley  Hamlet of Fortitude Valley  1860–1873 Arthur Macalister  Eastern Downs  1860–1871; 1872–1876 Edward MacDevitt  Kennedy  1870–1874 Thomas McIlwraith  Warrego  1870–1871; 1873–1886;1888–1896 William Miles  Maranoa  1864–1873; 1874–1875;1876–1887 Berkeley Basil Moreton  Burnett  1870–1871; 1873–1875;1883–1888 James Morgan  Warwick  1870–1871; 1873–1878 Kevin O'Doherty  Town of Brisbane  1867–1873 Arthur Hunter Palmer  Port Curtis  1866–1881 Ratcliffe Pring  Town of Brisbane  1860–1862; 1863–1866;1867–1872; 1873–1874;1878–1879 Robert Ramsay  Western Downs  1867–1873 Charles Royds  Leichhardt  1860–1864; 1868–1872 John Scott  Leichhardt  1868, 1870–1888 Thomas Blacket Stephens  Town of South Brisbane  1863–1875 John Malbon Thompson  Town of Ipswich  1868–1881 George Thorn  West Moreton  1867–1874; 1876–1878;1879–1883; 1887–1888;1893–1902 William Henry Walsh  Maryborough  1865–1878 Edward Wienholt  Western Downs  1870–1875
See also *Premier:: Arthur Hunter Palmer (1870–1874)
Notes : On 23 March 1871, Charles Haly, member for Burnett, resigned. John Bramston won the resulting by-election on 3 April 1871.
References * Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001. *  Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)* ''Brisbane Courier'' variously over 1871–1873