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 December 1890 until July 1894.

Prior to the passage of the Constitution Act 1889, Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 had a partly elected and partly nominated Legislative Council. The Act created a fully elective Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 as a separate house, and a 15-seat Council whose members were nominated by the Governor of Western Australia

Governor of Western Australia

The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia's Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The Governor performs important constitutional, ceremonial and community functions, including:* presiding over the Executive Council;...

. It was anticipated by Part III of the Constitution that the Council would remain purely nominative until the colony had reached a population of 60,000—seen as a distant goal with an 1888 population of 43,814 and the levelling off of earlier growth. However, due to the gold rush

Gold rush

A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.In the 19th and early...

 which saw thousands of people migrate from other Australian colonies and from overseas, the population reached 64,923 by 31 December 1893. The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1893 was passed to transform the Council into an elective house of 21 members on a restricted franchise, effective from the 1894 elections.

Name	Date appointed	Date ceased
Josceline Amherst	24 December 1890	16 July 1894
Harry Anstey Harry Anstey Harry Francis Anstey was a metallurgist and gold prospector who led the prospecting expedition that discovered gold in the Yilgarn, leading to the gold rush that established Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields....	23 August 1893	16 July 1894
Edmund Ralph Brockman	24 December 1890	9 December 1891 (resigned)
Thomas Burges	24 December 1890	7 August 1893 (died)
Robert Edwin Bush	24 December 1890	17 July 1893 (resigned)
Hon Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell Thomas Cockburn-Campbell Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, 4th Baronet was an English-born journalist and politician in Australia.-Early life:...	24 December 1890	27 September 1892 (died)
Daniel Congdon	8 March 1892	16 July 1894
George Glyde	8 March 1892	16 July 1894
McKenzie Grant	24 December 1890	17 July 1893 (resigned)
John Winthrop Hackett	29 December 1890	16 July 1894
Edward Hamersley Edward Hamersley (Jnr) Edward Hamersley was a Western Australian pastoralist, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for nearly ten years....	24 December 1890	16 July 1894
Richard Watson Hardey	31 December 1890	16 July 1894
John Hassell	3 August 1893	16 July 1984
Edward Hooley	12 December 1891	16 July 1894
George Walpole Leake George Walpole Leake George Walpole Leake was a Western Australian barrister and magistrate and nephew of George Leake...	24 December 1890	16 July 1894
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....	24 December 1890	23 February 1892 (died)
William Dalgety Moore	24 December 1890	4 February 1892 (resigned)
James Morrison	24 December 1890	16 July 1894
Stephen Henry Parker Stephen Henry Parker Sir Stephen Henry Parker KCMG was a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia from 1906 to 1914.-Early life:...	11 October 1892	16 July 1894
George Randell George Randell George Randell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873–1875 and 1880–1890, then when representative self-government was achieved in 1890, won the seat of Moore in the new Legislative Assembly...	17 July 1893	16 July 1894
Sir 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:...	24 December 1890	16 July 1894
John Arthur Wright	24 December 1890	16 July 1894