7th Parliament of South Australia

Seventh Parliament of South Australia
← 6th 8th →
Old Parliament House (1872)
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of South Australia
Meeting place	Old Parliament House
Term	14 December 1871 – 14 January 1875
Election	14–27 December 1871
Legislative Council
Members	18
President	John Morphett (until 1873) William Milne (from 1873)
House of Assembly
Members	36
Speaker	George Strickland Kingston
Sessions
1st 19 January 1872 – 30 November 1872 2nd 25 July 1873 – 18 December 1873 3rd 30 April 1874 – 6 November 1874

The 7th Parliament of South Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the South Australian state government, composed of the South Australian Legislative Council and the South Australian House of Assembly.

Legislative Council

• President of the Legislative Council: John Morphett (until 1873), William Milne (from 1873)
• Clerk of the Legislative Council: Francis Corbet Singleton
• Clerk's assistant and Sergeant-at-arms: Joseph George Atkinson Branthwaite (until 1874), Frederick Halcomb (from 1874)

House of Assembly

• Speaker of the House of Assembly: George Strickland Kingston
• Clerk of the House of Assembly: George William de la Poer Beresford
• Clerk's assistant and Sargeant-at-arms: Edwin Gordon Blackmore

Members elected in 1869 are marked with an asterisk (*).

▌ Henry Ayers ▌ John Baker* ▌ John Crozier ▌ John Dunn, sen.* ▌ Thomas Elder* ▌ Thomas English* ▌ John Hodgkiss ▌ Thomas Hogarth ▌ Henry Mildred

▌ William Milne* ▌ William Morgan ▌ John Morphett ▌ Alexander Borthwick Murray* ▌ John Bentham Neales ▌ William Parkin ▌ Philip Santo ▌ William Storrie* ▌ William Wedd Tuxford

Legislative Council President John Morphett (until 1873)

7 of the 18 seats in the upper house were contested in the election on 3 April 1873. Members elected in 1873 are marked with an asterisk (*).

▌ Henry Ayers* ▌ John Crozier ▌ John Dunn, sen. ▌ Walter Duffield* ▌ Thomas Elder ▌ Thomas English ▌ William Edward Everard* ▌ Joseph Fisher* ▌ Alexander Hay*

▌ Thomas Hogarth* ▌ William Milne ▌ William Morgan ▌ Alexander Borthwick Murray ▌ William Parkin ▌ William Sandover ▌ Philip Santo ▌ William Storrie ▌ Robert Alfred Tarlton*

Legislative Council President William Milne (from 1873)

All 36 seats in the lower house were contested in the election on 14–27 December 1871.

Barossa ▌ John Howard Angas ▌ James Andrew Trehane Lake The Burra ▌ Charles Mann ▌ Rowland Rees East Adelaide ▌ John Cox Bray ▌ Robert Cottrell East Torrens ▌ Edwin Thomas Smith ▌ George Stevenson Encounter Bay ▌ Arthur Fydell Lindsay ▌ William Rogers Flinders ▌ William Ranson Mortlock ▌ Alfred Watts

Gumeracha ▌ Arthur Blyth ▌ Ebenezer Ward Light ▌ James Pearce ▌ Randolph Isham Stow Mount Barker ▌ James Garden Ramsay ▌ William West-Erskine Noarlunga ▌ John Carr ▌ Charles Myles Onkaparinga ▌ William Henry Bundey ▌ Friedrich Edouard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff Port Adelaide ▌ John Duncan ▌ Henry Kent Hughes

Stanley ▌ Henry Edward Bright ▌ George Strickland Kingston The Sturt ▌ William Mair ▌ William Townsend Victoria ▌ Thomas Wilde Boothby ▌ James Park Dawson Laurie West Adelaide ▌ William Knox Simms ▌ Judah Moss Solomon West Torrens ▌ James Boucaut ▌ John Pickering Yatala ▌ Wentworth Cavenagh ▌ Lavington Glyde

House of Assembly Speaker George Strickland Kingston

• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1869–1873
• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1873–1877
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1871–1875

• "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836–2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. 24 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011.