Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1857-1860

This is a list of members of the first parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...

, which sat from 22 April 1857 until 1 March 1860. The members were elected at the inaugural 1857 election.

Next Assembly: 1860–1862

Name	Electorate South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts Since 1970, the South Australian House of Assembly has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters...	Terms
²		1857–1860, 1862–1870
⁶		1857
		1857–1865
¹		1857–1860, 1862–1864
⁸		1858–1860, 1871–1874
		1857–1868, 1870–1877
⁸		1857–1858
¹⁴		1857–1859
		1857–1860
¹³		1858–1860
⁴		1857
¹	Barossa	1857, 1857
¹	Barossa	1857, 1857
	Barossa	1857–1868, 1870–1871
		1857–1868, 1868
		1857–1862, 1862–1865
		1857–1862
³	East Torrens	1857–1875, 1877–1884
		1857–1862
		1857–1861
²	Yatala	1857, 1878–1881
¹⁵	Port Adelaide	1857–1859, 1862–1866, 1868–1873
	Yatala	1857–1860
⁵		1858–1865, 1875–1883, 1884–1895
	Gumeracha	1857–1861, 1867–1871
¹³	Port Adelaide	1857–1858
		1857–1860, 1861–1880
⁹	Mount Barker	1857–1858, 1870–1882, 1884–1890
⁵	Victoria	1857
	Encounter Bay	1857–1860, 1870–1871, 1873–1878
¹⁶		1857–1859
¹²		1857–1858
^{7, 10}	Light	1858
¹²		1858–1862
		1857–1865
	Onkaparinga	1857–1868
		1857–1860, 1862–1870
¹⁴		1857–1860, 1859–1862
¹⁷		1857–1859
		1857–1862, 1862, 1864–1870, 1871–1872, 1872–1873
⁹	Mount Barker	1858–1860, 1864–1865, 1868, 1868–1870, 1872–1875
	West Torrens	1857–1860
¹⁰	Light	1858–1860
⁷	Light	1857
¹¹		1858–1860, 1871–1875
⁶	Encounter Bay	1858–1871
¹¹		1857–1858
⁴	Onkaparinga	1857–1882
		1857–1862
³	East Torrens	1857
	Noarlunga	1857–1860

Notes

Note	District	Outgoing	Incoming
¹	Barossa	Horace Dean Horace Dean Horace Dean was an American, who practiced as a doctor in Australia and was a journalist and political candidate at elections in South Australia and New South Wales.Dean was born in Chicago... was initially declared elected, but the result was overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns on 7 May 1857.	Dean won the resulting by-election on 1 June 1857
		Dean was again unseated by the Court on 13 June 1857.	On 13 June 1857 the court declared William Bakewell duly elected.
		(Dean was subsequently elected as member for Hastings Electoral district of Hastings (New South Wales) Hastings was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1859 to 1880. It was replaced by Hastings and Manning from 1880 to 1894, which elected two members with voters casting two votes and the two leading candidates being elected. In 1894 it... , New South Wales in December 1869 and July 1870, but was disqualified both times.)
²	Yatala	Charles Simeon Hare resigned on 12 May 1857.	Richard Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews Richard Bullock Andrews was an Australian politician and judge.Richard Bullock Andrews was born in Epping, Essex, England the eldest child of Richard Bullock Andrews, an attorney, and his wife Emma Ann. From December 1839 Bullock worked in his father's solicitors business... won the resulting by-election on 5 June 1857.
³	East Torrens	George Waterhouse George Marsden Waterhouse George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh Premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.-Early life:... resigned on 8 September 1857.	Lavington Glyde won the resulting by-election on 6 October 1857.
⁴	Onkaparinga	William Dawes resigned on 24 November 1857.	William Townsend won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1857.
⁵	Victoria	Robert Leake Robert Leake Robert Leake was a British Liberal politician.Leake was the eldest son of Robert Leake of Manchester and Mary Lockett of Salford, Lancashire... resigned on 8 December 1857.	George Charles Hawker George Charles Hawker George Charles Hawker was an Australian settler and South Australian politician.-Early life:Hawker was born in London, the second son of Admiral Edward Hawker and his first wife Joanna Naomi, née Poore. He was educated partly on the continent, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1836 George... won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1858.
⁶	Encounter Bay	Benjamin Babbage Benjamin Babbage Benjamin Herschel Babbage was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B... resigned on 17 December 1857.	Henry Strangways Henry Strangways Henry Bull Templar Strangways was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.Strangways was the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways of Shapwick, Somerset, England. He visited South Australia as a boy. Returning to England he entered at the Middle Temple in November 1851 and was called... won the resulting by-election on 15 January 1858.
⁷	Light	Carrington Smedley resigned on 23 December 1857.	William Maturin won the resulting by-election on 8 February 1858.
⁸	East Torrens	Charles Bonney Charles Bonney Charles Bonney was a pioneer and politician in Australia.-Early life:Bonney was the youngest son of the Rev. George Bonney, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and his wife Susanna, née Knight. He was born at Sandon, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England... resigned on 26 January 1858.	John Henry Barrow John Henry Barrow John Henry Barrow was a Congregational minister, journalist and South Australian politician.-Early life:Barrow was born in England, son of John Barrow. After he studied for the Congregational ministry at Hackney College, he took charge of the Congregational Church at Market Drayton in Shropshire,... won the resulting by-election on 6 April 1858.
⁹	Mount Barker	Friedrich Krichauff resigned on 12 March 1858.	William Rogers won the resulting by-election on 16 September 1858.
¹⁰	Light	William Maturin resigned on 1 July 1858.	David Shannon won the resulting by-election on 9 September 1858.
¹¹	City of Adelaide	Robert Torrens Robert Torrens Sir Robert Richard Torrens, GCMG was the third Premier of South Australia and a pioneer and author of simplified system of transferring land.-Early life:... resigned on 1 July 1858.	Judah Solomon won the resulting by-election on 16 September 1858.
¹²	The Burra and Clare	Morris Marks resigned on 2 August 1858.	Edward McEllister won the resulting by-election on 9 September 1858.
¹³	Port Adelaide	John Hughes John Bristow Hughes J. B. Hughes was a grazier, developer and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.-Life:... resigned on 24September 1858.	Edward Collinson won the resulting by-election on 11 October 1858.
¹⁴	City of Adelaide	William Henville Burford resigned on 29 April 1859.	William Owen won the resulting by-election on 13 May 1859.
¹⁵	Port Adelaide	Seat declared vacant 23 August 1859 - John Hart John Hart, senior Captain John Hart was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.-Early life:The son of journalist/newspaper publisher John Harriott Hart & Mary nee Glanville, John was born on 25 February 1809 probably at 23 Warwick Lane off Newgate Street, London. At Christ Church, Greyfriars... absent without leave.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.
¹⁶	Flinders	Marshall MacDermott accepted the office of special magistrate on 1 September 1859.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.
¹⁷	The Burra and Clare	Edward Peake accepted the office of state manager of railways on 1 October 1859.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.

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