Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1843–1851
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This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1843 to 1851.{{cite web |title=Former Members |work=Members of Parliament |publisher=Parliament of New South Wales |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/pages/former-members-index.aspx |access-date=2020-10-22}}{{NSW Parliamentary Record |part=3 |accessdate=2020-10-22}} The 1843 Electoral Act prescribed 36 members, 24 to be elected, 6 appointed by virtue of their office (Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor-General, Attorney General, Commander of the forces and Collector of Customs){{cite book |last1=Flanagan |first1=Roderick |author-link=Roderick Flanagan |title=The History of New South Wales |date=1862 |publisher=Sampson Low, Son & Company |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSIPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60 |access-date=23 April 2019}} and 6 nominated. The appointments and elections were for five year terms and thus occurred in 1843,{{refn|
{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230125687 |title=Elected members of the Legislative Council |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=58 |date=11 July 1843 |access-date=27 April 2019 |page=893 |via=Trove}}
{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230125936 |title=Proclamation: appointed members of the Legislative Council |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=62 |date=25 July 1843 |access-date=23 April 2019 |page=952 |via=Trove}}
{{efn|Outside of the general elections and appointments in 1843 and 1848, the members elected or appointed, in chronological order, were
Plunkett,{{efn|name=Barney}}
Lowe,{{efn|name=Jones}}
Robinson, {{efn|name=Condell}}
Young & Mitchell,{{efn|name=Ebden & Thomson}}
Darvall,{{efn|name=Elwin}}
B Boyd,{{efn|name=Mitchell}}
Lamb,{{efn|name=Lowe}}
Wild,{{efn|name=Therry}}
Lowe,{{efn|name=Coghill}}
Allen,{{efn|name=Blaxland}}
Parker,{{efn|name=Hamilton1}}
O'Connell,{{efn|name=Walker}}
T Boyd,{{efn|name=Young}}
Grant,{{efn|name=Wentworth}}
Curr,{{efn|name=B Boyd}}
Dangar,{{efn|name=W Foster}}
Brewster,{{efn|name=T Boyd}}
J Forster,{{efn|name=Curr}}
Faithfull,{{efn|name=Bradley}}
Airey,{{efn|name=Lang}}
Donaldson,{{efn|name=Windeyer}}
Ebden,{{efn|name=Brewster}}
N/A,{{efn|name=Macleay}}
Macarthur,{{efn|name=Williamson}}
Fitzgerald,{{efn|name=Lawson}}
J Foster,{{efn|name=Curr}}
Cooper,{{efn|name=Hill}}
Moor,{{efn|name=Palmer}}
Bland,{{efn|name=Lowe2}}
Byrnes,{{efn|name=Cowper}}
King,{{efn|name=Hamilton2}}
Ebden & Mercer,{{efn|name=Foster & Mackinnon}}
Lang,{{efn|name=Bland}}
Jones,{{efn|name=Snodgrass}} and
Westgarth.{{efn|name=Grey}}
{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230149291 |title=Elected members of the Legislative Council |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=86 |date=11 August 1848 |access-date=27 April 2019 |page=982 |via=Trove}}
{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230151325 |title=Proclamation: appointed members of the Legislative Council |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=140 |date=15 December 1848 |access-date=23 April 2019 |page=1804 |via=Trove}} The Speaker was Alexander Macleay until 19 May 1846 and then Charles Nicholson.{{refn|name=President|{{NSW Parliamentary Record |part=10 |access-date=2020-11-26}}}} The parliament was dissolved on 30 June 1851 as a result of the 1851 Electoral Act which increased the number of members in the Council to 54 (18 to be appointed and 36 elected).
{{cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|teao1851n4179|The Electoral Act of 1851 No 4}}
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