Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858
# Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council from the elections on 5 August 1856 to the elections of 31 August to 2 October 1858.

The old unicameral, partly nominated Legislative Council was abolished on 20 March 1856. On 7 November 1856 the members of the now bicameral and fully elected Victorian Parliament were published in the Government Gazette. The new Council first met in November 1856.

There were six Electoral Provinces and five members elected to each Province.

    Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province.

| Name | Province | Term in Office |
| - | - | - |
| John Allan | North-Western | 1856–1858 |
| John Barter Bennett | South | 1856–1863 |
| William J. T. Clarke | South | 1856–1861; 1863–1870 |
| James Cowie | South-Western | 1853–1854; 1856–1858 |
| Andrew Cruikshank | Western | 1856–1858 |
| John Pascoe Fawkner | Central | 1851–1869 |
| Nehemiah Guthridge | Central | 1856–1858 |
| James Henty | South-Western | 1853–1882 |
| Stephen Henty | Western | 1856–1870 |
| Matthew Hervey | Eastern | 1853–1865 |
| John Hodgson | Central | 1853–1860 |
| John Hood | Central | 1856–1859 |
| Robert Hope | South-Western | 1856–1864; 1867–1874 |
| William Kaye | Eastern | 1856–1857 |
| Donald Kennedy | South | 1854–1864 |
| Dennis Keogh | North-Western | 1856–1860 |
| Thomas McCombie | South | 1856–1859 |
| Henry Miller | Central | 1851–1866 |
| William Mitchell | North-Western | 1853; 1856–1858; 1859–1884 |
| James Palmer | Western | 1851–1870 |
| John Patterson | North-Western | 1856–1859 |
| Thomas Power | South | 1856–1864 |
| William Roope | South-Western | 1856–1860 |
| James Stewart | Eastern | 1856–1863 |
| James Strachan | South-Western | 1851–1866; 1866–1874 |
| Robert Thomson | Eastern | 1856–1863 |
| Daniel Tierney | Western | 1856–1859 |
| George Urquhart | North-Western | 1856–1860 |
| Charles Vaughan | Western | 1856–1864 |
| Benjamin Williams | Eastern | 1856–1874 |

    $^a$ Cruikshank resigned March 1858; replaced by Henry Miller in a by-election May 1858
    $^b$ Kaye was disqualified for bribery February 1857, replaced by William Highett in a by-election May 1857
    $^c$ Miller resigned April 1858, replaced by Thomas Howard Fellows in a by-election May 1858
    $^p$ Previous member of an old district of unicameral Council when it was abolished in March 1856
