Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1861–1865

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This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1861 to 1865.

This was the second Legislative Council to be elected under the Constitution of 1856, which provided for a house consisting of eighteen members to be elected from the whole State acting as one Electoral District; that six members, selected by lot, should be replaced at General Elections after four years, another six to be replaced four years later and thenceforth each member should have a term of twelve years.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49764446 |title=Colonial Constitutions |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=16 March 1857 |accessdate=28 August 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49768334 |title=The New Parliament |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=26 March 1857 |accessdate=27 August 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73791414 |title=Our First Parliament |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=8 March 1930 |accessdate=28 August 2014 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}

class="wikitable sortable"
Name ! Time in office ! Term expires ! Previously represented ! Notes
| George Fife Angas	1851–1866	Feb. 1865	Barossa
| Henry Ayers	1857–1869	Feb. 1869
| Charles Hervey Bagot	1851–1853 1857–1861 1865–1869	Feb. 1861	Light
| John Baker	1851–1861 1863–1872	Feb. 1861	Mount Barker	Elected to vacant seat August 1863
| John Henry Barrow	1861–	Feb. 1873
| Samuel Davenport	1855–1866	Feb. 1873	Non-Official nominee
| Charles Davies MD	1857–	Feb. 1865
| Thomas Elder	1863–			elected to vacant seat August 1863
| Charles G. Everard	1857–	Feb. 1869
| James Hurtle Fisher	1855–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
| Anthony Forster	1855–1864	Feb. 1873	West Adelaide	retired December 1864
| Arthur Henry Freeling	1855–1859	Feb 1861	Official nominee (Surveyor-General)	resigned August 1859
| Edward Castres Gwynne	1851–1859	Feb. 1861	Non-Official nominee	vacated seat August 1859 to take Supreme Court judge post
| George Hall	1851–1867	Feb. 1869	Port Adelaide
| Edward McEllister	1863–1866			elected to vacant seat August 1863
| John Morphett	1851–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
| Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran	1857–1863	Feb. 1865		retired June 1863
| William Peacock	1861–	Feb. 1873
| Abraham Scott	1857–1867	Feb. 1873		resigned 1867
| William Scott	1855–1863	Feb. 1869	Port Adelaide	Resigned 1863
| Judah Moss Solomon	1861–1866	Feb. 1873
| Edward Stirling	1855–	Feb. 1865	Non-Official nominee
| George Tinline	1860–1863	Feb. 1869		elected April 1860 to fill vacancy Seat declared vacant June 1863
| George Waterhouse	1860–1864	Feb. 1869		elected April 1860 to fill vacancy Resigned December 1864
| William Younghusband	1851–1861	Feb. 1861	Stanley