This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council

Victorian Legislative Council

The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...

between 1946 and 1949. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1943 triennial election with terms expiring in 1949, while the other half were elected at the 1946 triennial election with terms expiring in 1952.

Name	Party	Province	Term expires	Term of office
Sir William Angliss	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	Southern	1952	1912–1952
Sir Frank Beaurepaire Frank Beaurepaire Sir Francis "Frank" Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire was an Australian distance freestyle swimmer from the 1900s to the 1920s, who won three silver and three bronze medals, from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting 15 world records.He was also a decorated...	Liberal	Monash Monash Province Monash Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Monash Province:-References:...	1952	1942–1952
William Beckett William Beckett (Australian politician) William James Beckett CBE was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Melbourne	1952	1914–1931; 1934–1952
Percy Byrnes	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	North Western	1952	1942–1969
Ewen Paul Cameron	Liberal	East Yarra East Yarra Province East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...	1949	1948–1960
Gilbert Chandler Gilbert Chandler Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....	Liberal	Southern	1949	1935–1973
Percy Clarey Percy Clarey Percy James Clarey was an Australian trade union leader and politician.-Early life:Clarey was born at Bairnsdale, Victoria, the fifth child of general agent Francis William Clarey and Jessie Littlejohn Clarey, née Lawson. The family soon moved to Melbourne, and Percy attended South Yarra State...	Labor	Doutta Galla Doutta Galla Province Doutta Galla Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Doutta Galla Province:...	1949	1937–1949
Hon Sir Frank Clarke	Liberal	Monash	1949	1913–1955
Patrick Coleman	Labor	Melbourne West Melbourne West Province Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...	1949	1943–1955
Clifden Eager	Liberal	East Yarra	1952	1930–1958
Hon William Edgar William Edgar William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....	Liberal	East Yarra	1949	1904–1913; 1917–1948
Archibald Fraser	Labor	Melbourne North Melbourne North Province Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:...	1952	1940–1954
Charles Gartside	Liberal	South Eastern	1949	1937–1955
Hon Sir George Goudie	Country	North Western	1949	1919–1949
Trevor Harvey	Country	Gippsland	1952	1943–1952
Percival Inchbold	Country	North Eastern	1949	1935–1953
Cyril Isaac	Liberal	South Eastern	1952	1940–1952
Paul Jones Paul Jones (Australian politician) Paul Jones was an Australian politician. Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher. He also studied at the University of Melbourne for an MA. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in bizarre...	Labor	Doutta Galla	1952	1938–1958
James Kennedy James Kennedy (Australian politician) The Honourable Sir James Arthur "Jim" Kennedy Kt was an Australian politician and sportsman. Kennedy served as a minister in the Dunstan and Hollway Victorian state governments in the 1940s. He played Australian rules football for Essendon and Carlton during the early 1900s...	Liberal	Higinbotham Higinbotham Province Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia throughout its history, though it was won by...	1949	1937–1954
Pat Kennelly	Labor	Melbourne West	1952	1938–1952
James Kittson	Liberal	Ballarat	1952	1946–1952
Lieut-Col. George Lansell	Liberal	Bendigo	1952	1928–1952
John Lienhop	Country/Liberal	Bendigo	1949	1937–1951
Gordon McArthur	Liberal	South Western	1949	1931–1965
William MacAulay	Country	Gippsland	1949	1937–1957
Allan McDonald Allan McDonald Allan McKenzie McDonald, DFC was an Australian politician.-Early life:McDonald was born at Winchelsea, Victoria, the fourth child of contractor Allan McDonald and Elizabeth, née McKenzie. He attended Winchelsea State School and subsequently worked as a farm labourer and then farmer...	Country/Ind./Liberal	South Western	1952	1940–1952
Hugh MacLeod	Ind. Liberal	Western	1949	1946–1955
Daniel McNamara	Labor	Melbourne	1949	1916; 1917–1947
Likely McBrien Likely McBrien Likely Herman "Like" McBrien OBE was a leading Australian rules football administrator in the Victorian Football League and a Victorian politician....	Independent	Melbourne North	1949	1943–1949
Alfred Pittard	Liberal	Ballarat	1949	1931–1949
Robert Rankin Robert Rankin (Australian politician) Robert Chisholm Rankin was an Australian politician.Born in Malvern to Indian-born bootmaker William Rankin and Elizabeth Chisholm, he served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, attaining the rank of captain. He married Ethel Josephine Bennetts around 1918...	Country/Ind./Liberal	Western	1952	1940–1952
Leonard Rodda Leonard Rodda Leonard Roy Rodda was an Australian politician.Born in Tarranyurk to farmer Frederick Rodda and Elizabeth Mary Curnow, he attended Tarranyurk State School before working on the family farm...	Country	Western	1949	1937–1946
Ivan Swinburne	Country	North Eastern	1952	1946–1976
Fred Thomas	Labor	Melbourne	1949	1948–1960
Hon George Tuckett	Country	Northern	1949	1925–1955
Dudley Walters	Country	Northern	1952	1946–1964
Arthur Warner	Liberal	Higinbotham	1952	1946–1964

In August 1946, Leonard Rodda

Leonard Rodda

Leonard Roy Rodda was an Australian politician.Born in Tarranyurk to farmer Frederick Rodda and Elizabeth Mary Curnow, he attended Tarranyurk State School before working on the family farm...

, Country MLC for Western, resigned. Independent Liberal candidate Hugh MacLeod won the resulting by-election on 30 November 1946.

On 28 December 1947, Daniel McNamara, Labor MLC for Melbourne Province, died. Labor candidate Fred Thomas won the resulting by-election on 20 March 1948.

On 6 June 1948, William Edgar

William Edgar

William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....

, Liberal MLC for East Yarra Province

East Yarra Province

East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...

, died. Liberal candidate Ewen Paul Cameron won the resulting by-election on 7 August 1948.

On 30 April 1949, Sir George Goudie, Country MLC for North Western Province, died. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1949 triennial election.

Sources

• Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
  Parliament of Victoria
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• Victorian Year Book 1943–44