title: Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1861–1862
text: # Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1861–1862
  
  This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1861 elections and the 1862 elections.
  
  | Name | District | Years in office |
  | - | - | - |
  | Edward Abbott | Clarence | 1856–1864 |
  | Robert Adams | Hobart Town | 1859–1866 |
  | William Race Allison | Campbell Town | 1856–1865 |
  | William Archer | Devon | 1860–1862; 1866–1868 |
  | John Balfe | Franklin | 1857–1872; 1874–1880 |
  | Henry Butler | Brighton | 1856–1862; 1866–1885 |
  | Thomas Chapman | Queenborough | 1856–1864; 1866–1873 |
  | John Crookes | Launceston | 1857–1862; 1866 |
  | John Davies | Hobart Town Devon | 1861; 1862–1871 |
  | William Lambert Dobson | Hobart Town | 1861–1862; 1864–1870 |
  | William Dodery | Norfolk Plains | 1861–1870 |
  | Adye Douglas | Westbury | 1856–1857; 1862–1884 |
  | Henry Dowling | Launceston | 1861–1862 |
  | Thomas Field | Westbury | 1856–1862 |
  | James Grant | Fingal | 1861–1863 |
  | Thomas Gregson | Richmond | 1856–1872 |
  | Charles Henty | George Town | 1856–1862 |
  | Samuel Hill | Hobart Town | 1861 |
  | William Hodgson | Sorell | 1861–1881 |
  | Thomas Horne | Hobart Town | 1861–1866 |
  | Frederick Innes | Morven | 1856–1862; 1872–1877 |
  | Robert Kermode | Ringwood | 1857–1859; 1861–1862 |
  | Douglas Kilburn | Hobart Town | 1861–1862 |
  | James MacLanachan | Oatlands | 1859–1862 |
  | Charles Meredith | Hobart Town | 1856–1879 |
  | John Meredith | Glamorgan | 1861–1863; 1865–1871 |
  | Maxwell Miller | Hobart Town | 1856–1861; 1862–1864 |
  | Robert Miller | Launceston | 1861–1867 |
  | Sir Robert Officer | Glenorchy | 1856–1877 |
  | John Perkins | Kingborough | 1861–1866 |
  | Adolphus Rooke | Deloraine | 1856–1862; 1868–1869; 1871–1872 |
  | William Sharland | New Norfolk | 1861–1872 |
  | Isaac Sherwin | Selby | 1860–1866 |
  | Frederick Synnott | Cumberland | 1861–1862 |
  
      $^1$ In October 1861, John Davies, one of the five members for Hobart Town, resigned. Charles Meredith won the resulting by-election on 28 October 1861.
      $^2$ On 23 October 1861, Samuel Hill, one of the five members for Hobart Town, died. Robert Adams won the resulting by-election on 4 November 1861.
      $^3$ In April 1862, Douglas Kilburn, one of the five members for Hobart Town, resigned. Maxwell Miller won the resulting by-election on 28 May 1862.
      $^4$ In April 1862, Thomas Field, the member for Westbury, resigned. Adye Douglas was elected unopposed on 30 May 1862.
      $^5$ In May 1862, William Archer, the member for Devon, resigned. John Davies was elected unopposed on 25 June 1862.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Newman, Terry (1994). Representation of the Tasmanian People. Tasmanian Parliamentary Library. ISBN 0-7246-4147-5.
  * Parliament of Tasmania (2020). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
  