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 October 1870 to June 1872. 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".

Of the 12 elected representatives, two members each represented Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 and Fremantle

Fremantle, Western Australia

Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

, while the remainder represented the rural districts. Franchise

Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply the franchise, distinct from mere voting rights, is the civil right to vote gained through the democratic process...

 was limited to free men who owned £100 of freehold property or paid £10 per annum rent. An amendment proclaimed on 17 August 1871 allowed former prisoners who had been granted a conditional pardon and who met the above conditions to vote.

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
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...	Nominee	1870–1872; 1874–1876
John Bussell John Bussell John Garrett Bussell was an early settler in Western Australia.John Garrett Bussell was born at Portsea, Hampshire in England on 16 August 1803. He was educated at Winchester College in England, but after the death of his father the family decided to emigrate to Western Australia...	Vasse	1870–1872
Julien Carr	Perth	1868–1873
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
Thomas Gull	Swan	1870–1872
Albert Hassell	Albany	1871–1874
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
John McKail	Albany	1870–1871
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	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
William Moore	Fremantle	1870–1872
Edward Newman	Fremantle	1870–1872
Samuel Phillips	Nominee	1857–1872
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