This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council

Western Australian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

from June 1872 to September 1874. The chamber had 18 members, as specified by the Legislative Council Act 1870 (33 Vict, No. 13). Section 1 of this Act specified that a minimum of one-third of the Council would be appointed by the Crown. Three of these were official nominees who were part of the Continuous Ministry—namely the Colonial Secretary

Colonial Secretary of Western Australia

The Colonial Secretary of Western Australia was one of the most important and powerful public offices in Western Australia, in the time when Western Australia was a British colony. The Colonial Secretary was the representative of the British Colonial Office in Western Australia, and was usually...

, Attorney-General

Attorney-General of Western Australia

The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia...

 and the Surveyor-General—while the remaining three were "non-official nominees". All other positions were elected.

An amendment proclaimed on 15 January 1874 expanded the Council from 18 to 21 seats, adding two elected and one nominee member.

Name	Province	Years in office
Sir Frederick Barlee Frederick Barlee Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee KCMG was Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1855 to 1875; Lieutenant-Governor of the British Honduras from 1877 to 1882; and Administrator of Trinidad in 1884....	Colonial Secretary Colonial Secretary of Western Australia The Colonial Secretary of Western Australia was one of the most important and powerful public offices in Western Australia, in the time when Western Australia was a British colony. The Colonial Secretary was the representative of the British Colonial Office in Western Australia, and was usually...	1855–1875
Wallace Bickley Wallace Bickley Wallace Alexander Bickley was an early settler in colonial Western Australia, who became a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council....	Nominee	1872–1876
Maitland Brown Maitland Brown Maitland Brown was an explorer, politician and pastoralist in colonial Western Australia. He is best remembered as the leader of the La Grange expedition, which searched for and recovered the bodies of three white settlers murdered by Indigenous Australians, and subsequently killed a number of...	North	1870–1872; 1874–1886
Alfred Bussell Alfred Bussell Alfred Pickmore Bussell was an early settler in Western Australia.Alfred Bussell was born at Portsea, Hampshire in England on 21 June 1816. He was educated at Winchester College in England, but after the death of his father the family decided to emigrate to Western Australia...	Nominee	1872–1874
Thomas Carey	Vasse	1872–1874; 1878–1884
Julien Carr	Perth	1868–1873
Thomas Cockburn-Campbell Thomas Cockburn-Campbell Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, 4th Baronet was an English-born journalist and politician in Australia.-Early life:...	Nominee/Albany	1872–1889; 1890–1892
Charles Crowther Charles Crowther Charles Crowther was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1887.Born in Lincoln, England, in 1834, nothing is known of his ancestry or early life. In December 1850 he arrived in Western Australia on board the Mary, obtaining employment in the firm of George Shenton Sr...	Greenough	1873–1886
Charles Dempster Charles Dempster Charles Stewart 'Stewie' Dempster was a former New Zealand cricketer and coach...	Toodyay	1873–1874; 1894–1907
James Drummond James Drummond (Australian politician) James Drummond was an early settler in Western Australia, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1870 to 1873.Born in 1814, most probably in Cork, Ireland, James Drummond was the son of botanist James Drummond...	Toodyay	1870–1873
Malcolm Fraser Malcolm Fraser (surveyor) Sir Malcolm Fraser KCMG was a powerful public servant in colonial Western Australia in the 1870s and 1880s.Malcolm Fraser was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1834. Nothing is known of his early life, except that he must have qualified as a surveyor at some stage, and that he emigrated to New...	Surveyor-General	1870–1886; 1887–1890
George Glyde	nominee	1874–1879; 1882–1885
William Locke Brockman William Locke Brockman William Locke Brockman was an early settler in Western Australia, who became a leading pastoralist and stock breeder, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council....	Swan	1839–1840; 1868–1870; 1872
Albert Hassell	Albany	1871–1874
Sir Henry Hocking	Attorney-General Attorney-General of Western Australia The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia...	1873–1874; 1875–1879
George Walpole Leake George Walpole Leake George Walpole Leake was a Western Australian barrister and magistrate and nephew of George Leake...	Attorney-General Attorney-General of Western Australia The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia...	1872–1873; 1874–1875; 1879; 1880–1881; 1883
Luke Leake	Perth	1870–1886
James George Lee-Steere James George Lee-Steere Sir James George Lee Steere KCMG was a Western Australian politician and a prominent member of the six hungry families....	Wellington	1868–1880; 1885–1890
Major Logue	Geraldton	1870–1874
William Marmion William Marmion William Edward Marmion was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1870 to 1890, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1890 to 1896....	Nominee/Fremantle	1870–1890
John Monger John Monger John Henry Monger was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1870 to 1875, and again from 1890 to 1992....	York	1870–1875
Edward Newman	Fremantle	1870–1872
Walter Padbury Walter Padbury Walter Padbury was an Australian pioneer and philanthropist.Padbury was born at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in the English county of Oxfordshire. He arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in the Protector with his father on 25 February 1830, but in the following July his father died...	Swan	1872–1877
William Silas Pearse	Fremantle	1872–1880; 1884–1890
George Shenton George Shenton Sir George Shenton was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.-Early and family life:...	Greenough	1870–1873, 1875–1906
Robert Walcott	Attorney-General Attorney-General of Western Australia The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia...	1870–1872