Electoral district of New England
New England was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the then colony of New South Wales.
| New England New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |
|---|---|
| State | New South Wales |
| Created | 1859 |
| Abolished | 1894 |
| Demographic | Rural |
Initially created in 1859 in the New England region of northern New South Wales, it partly replaced the Electoral district of New England and Macleay.
Originally electing one member, New England elected two members from 1880 to 1891 and three members from 1891 to 1894. With the introduction of single-member electorates in 1894, New England was replaced by Armidale, Uralla-Walcha and Bingara.[1]
Members for New England
| Single-member (1859–1880) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| James Hart | None | 1859–1860 | |
| George Markham | None | 1860–1862 | |
| Robert Forster | None | 1862–1864 | |
| Theophilus Cooper | None | 1864–1869 | |
| Charles Weaver | None | 1869–1871 | |
| Samuel Terry | None | 1871–1880 | |
| Two members (1880–1891) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Henry Copeland | None | 1880–1882 | William Proctor | None | 1880–1887 | ||
| James Farnell | None | 1882–1885 | |||||
| James Inglis | None | 1885–1887 | |||||
| Free Trade | 1887–1891 | Henry Copeland | Protectionist | 1887–1891 | |||
| Three members (1891–1894) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| James Inglis | Free Trade | 1891–1894 | Henry Copeland | Protectionist | 1891–1894 | Edmund Lonsdale | Free Trade | 1891–1894 | |||
References
- "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 29 September 2004. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
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