Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1890–1894


This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from December 1890 until July 1894.
Prior to the passage of the Constitution Act 1889, Western Australia had a partly elected and partly nominated Legislative Council. The Act created a fully elective Western Australian Legislative Assembly as a separate house, and a 15-seat Council whose members were nominated by the Governor of Western Australia. It was anticipated by Part III of the Constitution that the Council would remain purely nominative until the colony had reached a population of 60,000—seen as a distant goal with an 1888 population of 43,814 and the levelling off of earlier growth. However, due to the gold rush which saw thousands of people migrate from other Australian colonies and from overseas, the population reached 64,923 by 31 December 1893. The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1893 was passed to transform the Council into an elective house of 21 members on a restricted franchise, effective from the 1894 elections.
NameDate appointedDate ceased
Josceline Amherst24 December 189016 July 1894
Harry Anstey23 August 189316 July 1894
Edmund Ralph Brockman24 December 18909 December 1891
Thomas Burges24 December 18907 August 1893
Robert Edwin Bush24 December 189017 July 1893
Hon Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell24 December 189027 September 1892
Daniel Keen Congdon8 March 189216 July 1894
George Glyde8 March 189216 July 1894
McKenzie Grant24 December 189017 July 1893
John Winthrop Hackett29 December 189016 July 1894
Edward Hamersley24 December 189016 July 1894
Richard Watson Hardey31 December 189016 July 1894
John Hassell3 August 189316 July 1984
Edward Hooley12 December 189116 July 1894
George Walpole Leake24 December 189016 July 1894
John Monger24 December 189023 February 1892
William Dalgety Moore24 December 18904 February 1892
James Morrison24 December 189016 July 1894
Stephen Henry Parker11 October 189216 July 1894
George Randell17 July 189316 July 1894
Sir George Shenton24 December 189016 July 1894
John Arthur Wright24 December 189016 July 1894