This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Council

Queensland Legislative Council

The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which first took office on 1 May 1860. It was abolished by the Constitution Amendment Act 1921, which took effect on 23 March 1922.Consequently, the...

from its creation on 1 May 1860 to 31 December 1869. Appointments, made by the Governor of Queensland, were for life, although many members for one reason or another resigned. Prior to 1860, Queensland was part of the colony of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

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Starting with 11 members, by 26 April 1861, the council had increased to 21 members. From then until the end of the decade, the mean membership was slightly over 20, ranging from 16–17 for a period from July 1865 to February 1866, to 23-24 for a period from July 1863 to April 1864.

Office bearers

President of the Legislative Council:

• Charles Nicholson
  Charles Nicholson
  Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet was a British-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist...
  
   (22 May 1860—26 August 1860)
• Maurice Charles O'Connell
  Maurice Charles O'Connell (Australian politician)
  Maurice Charles O'Connell , was a Queensland pioneer and president of the legislative council.O'Connell was born at Sydney in 1812. His father was Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, his mother was a daughter of Governor Bligh. He was educated at the high school, Edinburgh, and entered the army as an...
  
   (26 August 1860—23 March 1879)

Chairman of Committees:

• Daniel Foley Roberts (30 May 1860—26 July 1889)

Members

Name	Date appointed	Date left	Reason for leaving
John Balfour	1860-05-01	1864-04-23	Resignation
William Barker	1861-04-26	1863-07-22	Resignation
John Alexander Bell	1866-09-26	1872-11-21
Francis Bigge	1860-05-01	1873-05-16
John Bramston	1863-07-03	1869-11-17	Resignation
Alfred Henry Brown	1861-04-26	1863-05-13	Resignation
Irwin Browne	1863-07-03	1882-08-14
Alfred Compigne Alfred Compigne Alfred William Compigne was a settler of Queensland, Australia. He was born at Gosford, Hampshire on 2 February 1818 and came to Sydney, Australia on 30 June, 1839. He was appointed to be on the first Queensland Legislative Council in 1860, and died in Brisbane on 4 July 1909.-References:...	1860-05-01	1864-04-23	Resignation
John Douglas John Douglas (Queensland politician) John Douglas CMG was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwarth...	1866-02-22	1866-07-25	Elected to Assembly
John Douglas John Douglas (Queensland politician) John Douglas CMG was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwarth...	1868-12-11	1869-11-13	Resignation
Henry Fitz	1860-05-23	1873-05-16
George Fullerton	1860-05-01	1864-05-22	Seat vacated
John Galloway	1860-05-01	1865-05-01	Resignation
John Galloway	1869-11-13	1872-04-17
James Garrick	1869-11-13	1870-12-08
James Gibbon	1866-02-22	1887-02-19
St. George Richard Gore	1863-07-03	1871-08-16
Henry Harden	1868-06-10	1870-06-01
George Harris	1860-05-23	1876-08-31
Johann Heussler	1866-09-26	1870-10-08
William Hobbs	1861-04-26	1880-10-18
Louis Hope	1862-04-24	1882-11-01
Frederick Isaac	1864-08-25	1865-07-12	Death
James Laidley	1860-05-01	1864-08-16	Resignation
William Landsborough	1862-12-20	1865-09-23	Resignation
John McConnel	1861-04-26	1868-07-16	Resignation
John McDougall	1860-05-01	1895-09-13
Robert Massie	1860-05-01	1862-05-14	Resignation
Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior	1866-02-22	1892-12-31
Charles Nicholson Charles Nicholson Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet was a British-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist...	1860-05-01	1863-06-23	Unknown
Francis North	1863-07-03	1864-12-09	Death
Albert Norton Albert Norton Albert Norton was a Queensland politician and pastoralist.Norton was the sixth son of James Norton, born at the family home, "Elswick" now Leichhardt, New South Wales. He was educated at the Rev. F. Wilkinson's school at Sydney, and from 1852 to 1857 was gaining experience on stations in the New...	1867-09-11	1868-05-29	Resignation
Maurice Charles O'Connell Maurice Charles O'Connell (Australian politician) Maurice Charles O'Connell , was a Queensland pioneer and president of the legislative council.O'Connell was born at Sydney in 1812. His father was Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, his mother was a daughter of Governor Bligh. He was educated at the high school, Edinburgh, and entered the army as an...	1860-05-01	1879-03-23
John Panton	1866-02-22	1866-10-02	Death
Ratcliffe Pring	1862-04-24	1863-05-26	Elected to Assembly
Daniel Foley Roberts	1860-05-23	1889-07-26
Henry Simpson	1868-07-29	1882-04-29
Stephen Simpson	1860-05-23	1865-02-03	Resignation
Richard Joseph Smith	1863-07-03	1866-06-12	Resignation
William Thornton	1866-09-26	1879-09-08
John Watts	1864-04-08	1864-10-31	Elected to Assembly
William Duckett White	1861-04-26	1880-08-05
Western Wood	1861-04-26	1868-03-20	Resignation
William Yaldwyn	1868-06-10	1877-05-15
William Henry Yaldwyn	1860-05-01	1863-06-13	Resignation
William Henry Yaldwyn	1865-05-01	1866-08-28	Death