Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1928–1931
# Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1928–1931

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council between 1928 and 1931. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931, while the other half were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934.

| Name | Party | Province | Term expires | Term of office |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| William Angliss | Nationalist | Southern | 1934 | 1912–1952 |
| Edwin Bath | Nationalist | Nelson | 1931 | 1922–1937 |
| William Beckett | Labor | Melbourne North | 1931 | 1914–1931; 1934–1952 |
| Alexander Bell | Nationalist | Wellington | 1931 | 1917–1931 |
| Frederick Brawn | Nationalist | Wellington | 1934 | 1907–1934 |
| Alfred Chandler | Nationalist | South Eastern | 1931 | 1919–1935 |
| Hon. Sir Frank Clarke | Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1931 | 1913–1955 |
| Russell Clarke | Nationalist | Southern | 1931 | 1910–1937 |
| Harold Cohen | Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1934 | 1929–1935 |
| Hon. Henry Cohen | Nationalist | Melbourne | 1931 | 1921–1937 |
| Alan Currie | Nationalist | Nelson | 1934 | 1928–1940 |
| George Martley Davis | Nationalist | Gippsland | 1931 | 1917–1937 |
| Arthur Disney | Labor | Melbourne West | 1931 | 1916–1943 |
| Clifden Eager | Nationalist | East Yarra | 1934 | 1930–1958 |
| Hon. William Edgar | Nationalist | East Yarra | 1931 | 1904–1913; 1917–1948 |
| Norman Falkiner | Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1934 | 1928–1929 |
| Hon. George Goudie | Country | North Western | 1931 | 1919–1949 |
| John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1934 | 1920–1946 |
| Howard Hitchcock | Nationalist | South Western | 1931 | 1925–1931 |
| Hon. John Percy Jones | Labor | Melbourne East | 1934 | 1910–1940 |
| Herbert Keck | Nationalist | Bendigo | 1931 | 1921–1937 |
| Esmond Kiernan | Labor | Melbourne North | 1934 | 1919–1940 |
| Richard Kilpatrick | Country | Northern | 1934 | 1928–1946 |
| Lt. Col. George Lansell | Nationalist | Bendigo | 1934 | 1928–1952 |
| William McCann | Country Progressive | North Western | 1934 | 1928–1931 |
| Martin McGregor | Nationalist | Gippsland | 1934 | 1922–1936 |
| Daniel McNamara | Labor | Melbourne East | 1931 | 1916; 1917–1947 |
| Robert Menzies | Nationalist | East Yarra | 1934 | 1928–1929 |
| Horace Richardson | Nationalist | South Western | 1934 | 1912–1934 |
| Marcus Saltau | Nationalist | Western | 1934 | 1924–1940 |
| Herbert Smith | Nationalist | Melbourne | 1934 | 1921–1935 |
| George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1931 | 1925–1955 |
| William Tyner | Nationalist | South Eastern | 1934 | 1922–1940 |
| Edward White | Nationalist | Western | 1931 | 1907–1931 |
| Hon. Robert Williams | Labor | Melbourne West | 1934 | 1922–1938 |
| Albert Zwar | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1922–1935 |

    $^1$ In October 1928, Robert Menzies, Nationalist MLC for East Yarra Province, resigned to contest Nunawading at the 1929 Assembly election. Nationalist candidate Clifden Eager won the resulting by-election in February 1930.
    $^2$ On 11 May 1929, Norman Falkiner, Nationalist MLC for Melbourne South Province, died. Nationalist candidate Harold Cohen won the resulting by-election in June 1929.

## Sources

* Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.
* Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Second Session 1929 (PDF). Vol. 181. Melbourne: H. J. Green. 1930.
