Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1928–1931
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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 1928 and 1931. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931, while the other half were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934.
Name Party Province Term expires Term of office
William Angliss  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

 
Southern  1934 1912–1952
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 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:...

 
1931 1914–1931; 1934–1952
Alexander Bell  Nationalist Wellington  1931 1917–1931
Frederick Brawn  Nationalist Wellington 1934 1907–1934
Alfred Chandler  Nationalist South Eastern  1931 1919–1935
Hon Sir Frank Clarke  Nationalist Melbourne South  1931 1913–1955
Russell Clarke  Nationalist Southern 1931 1910–1937
Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen (politician)
Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....

Nationalist Melbourne South 1934 1929–1935
Hon Henry Cohen  Nationalist Melbourne  1931 1921–1937
George Martley Davis  Nationalist Gippsland  1931 1917–1937
James Herbert Disney  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:...

 
1931 1916–1943
Clifden Eager Nationalist 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:...

 
1934 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....

 
Nationalist East Yarra 1931 1904–1913; 1917–1948
Norman Falkiner Nationalist Melbourne South 1934 1928–1929
Hon George Goudie  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  1931 1919–1949
John Harris  Country North Eastern  1934 1920–1946
Howard Hitchcock
Howard Hitchcock
For the painter see D. Howard HitchcockHoward Hitchcock was mayor of the City of Geelong in Victoria, Australia from 1917 to 1922, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1925 until 1931...

 
Nationalist South Western  1931 1925–1931
Hon John Percy Jones  Labor Melbourne East  1934 1910–1940
Herbert Keck  Nationalist Bendigo  1931 1921–1937
Esmond Kiernan  Labor Melbourne North 1934 1919–1940
Richard Kilpatrick  Country Northern  1934 1928–1946
Lt Col George Lansell  Nationalist Bendigo 1934 1928–1952
William McCann
William McCann (politician)
William John McCann was an Australian politician.Born in Kerang to farmer David James and Isabella McCurdy, both Irish-born, he became a dairy farmer at Lake Charm, where he helped to establish an aged care home to which he later retired...

 
Country North Western 1934 1928–1931
Martin McGregor  Nationalist Gippsland 1934 1922–1936
Daniel McNamara  Labor Melbourne East 1931 1916; 1917–1947
Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....

Nationalist East Yarra 1934 1928–1929
Horace Richardson  Nationalist South Western 1934 1912–1934
Marcus Saltau  Nationalist Western  1934 1924–1940
Herbert Henry Smith  Nationalist Melbourne 1934 1921–1935
George Tuckett  Country Northern 1931 1925–1955
William Tyner  Nationalist South Eastern 1934 1922–1940
Edward James White  Nationalist Western 1931 1907–1931
Hon Robert Henry Williams  Labor Melbourne West 1934 1922–1938
Albert Zwar  Country North Eastern 1937 1922–1935

In October 1928, Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....

, Nationalist 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:...

, resigned to contest Nunawading
Electoral district of Nunawading
The electoral district of Nunawading was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Nunawading:...

 at the 1929 Assembly election. Nationalist candidate Clifden Eager won the resulting by-election in February 1930.
On 11 May 1929, Norman Falkiner, Nationalist MLC for Melbourne South Province, died. Nationalist candidate Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen (politician)
Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....

 won the resulting by-election in June 1929.

Sources

  • Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
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