title: Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1897–1900
text: # Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1897–1900
  
  This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 14 October 1897 to the elections of 1 November 1900. From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly.
  
  Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.
  
      Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
  
  17th Parliament :
  
  | Name | Electorate | Term in Office |
  | - | - | - |
  | John Anderson | Melbourne East | 1894–1901 |
  | William Anderson | Windermere | 1886–1889; 1894–1898 |
  | Edwin Austin | Ripon & Hampden | 1892–1900 |
  | Alfred Shrapnell Bailes | Sandhurst | 1886–1894; 1897–1907 |
  | William Beazley | Collingwood | 1889–1912 |
  | George Bennett | Richmond | 1889–1908 |
  | Robert Best | Fitzroy | 1889–1901 |
  | John Bowser | Wangaratta and Rutherglen | 1894–1929 |
  | James Hugh Brake | Horsham | 1894–1900 |
  | Frederick Bromley | Carlton | 1892–1908 |
  | Joseph Tilley Brown | Shepparton and Euroa | 1886–1889; 1897–1904 |
  | John Burton | Stawell | 1892–1902 |
  | Ewen Hugh Cameron | Evelyn | 1874–1914 |
  | Godfrey Carter | Melbourne | 1877–1883; 1885–1900 |
  | John Percy Chirnside | Grant | 1894–1904 |
  | James Hume Cook | East Bourke Boroughs | 1894–1900 |
  | Albert Craven | Benambra | 1889–1913 |
  | Alfred Deakin | Essendon & Flemington | 1879–1879; 1880–1900 |
  | Alfred Downward | Mornington | 1894–1929 |
  | John Gavan Duffy | Kilmore, Dalhousie & Lancefield | 1874–1886; 1887–1904 |
  | Daniel Duggan | Dunolly | 1894–1904 |
  | John Henry Dyer | Borung | 1892–1902 |
  | Theodore Fink | Jolimont & West Richmond | 1894–1904 |
  | Charles Forrest | Polwarth | 1886–1894; 1897–1911 |
  | Henry Foster | Gippsland East | 1889–1902 |
  | Mackay John Scobie Gair | Bourke East | 1897–1904 |
  | Duncan Gillies | Toorak | 1861–1868; 1870–1894; 1897–1903 |
  | George Graham | Numurkah and Nathalia | 1884–1914 |
  | James Graves | Delatite | 1877–1900; 1902–1904 |
  | Frederick Gray | Prahran | 1894–1900 |
  | Walter Grose | Creswick | 1894–1904 |
  | William Gurr | Geelong | 1894–1902; 1907–1908 |
  | Walter Hamilton | Sandhurst | 1894–1904 |
  | John Hancock | Footscray | 1891–1892; 1894–1899 |
  | Albert Harris | Gippsland Central | 1883–1910 |
  | Joseph Harris | South Yarra | 1880–1894; 1897–1904 |
  | H. B. Higgins | Geelong | 1894–1900 |
  | William Irvine | Lowan | 1894–1906 |
  | Isaac Isaacs | Bogong | 1892–1893; 1893–1901 |
  | John Alfred Isaacs | Ovens | 1894–1902 |
  | Thomas Kennedy | Benalla and Yarrawonga | 1894–1901 |
  | John Keys | Dandenong & Berwick | 1880–1894; 1897–1900 |
  | Joseph Kirton | Ballarat West | 1889–1894; 1894–1904; 1907–1908 |
  | Thomas Langdon | Korong | 1880–1889; 1892–1914 |
  | Jonas Levien | Barwon | 1871–1877; 1880–1906 |
  | John Neil McArthur | Villiers & Heytesbury | 1896–1900 |
  | Peter McBride | Kara Kara | 1897–1913 |
  | James Whiteside McCay | Castlemaine | 1895–1899 |
  | James McColl | Gunbower | 1886–1901 |
  | Robert McGregor | Ballarat East | 1894–1924 |
  | John McIntyre | Maldon | 1877–1880; 1881–1902 |
  | Malcolm McKenzie | Anglesey | 1892–1903; 1911–1920 |
  | Allan McLean | Gippsland North | 1880–1901 |
  | Donald Norman McLeod | Portland | 1894–1900 |
  | Frank Madden | Eastern Suburbs | 1894–1917 |
  | William Maloney | Melbourne West | 1889–1903 |
  | Francis Mason | Gippsland South | 1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902 |
  | John Mason | Rodney | 1897–1902; 1907–1908 |
  | David Methven | East Bourke Boroughs | 1889–1894; 1897–1902; 1903–1904 |
  | James Moloney | Carlton South | 1897–1900 |
  | John Morrissey | Rodney | 1897–1907 |
  | William Moule | Brighton | 1894–1900 |
  | Edward Murphy | Warrenheip | 1886–1900 |
  | John Murray | Warrnambool | 1884–1916 |
  | Bryan O'Loghlen | Port Fairy | 1878–1880; 1880–1883; 1888–1894; 1897–1900 |
  | Richard O'Neill | Mandurang | 1893–1902 |
  | Alfred Richard Outtrim | Maryborough | 1885–1902; 1904–1920 |
  | Alexander Peacock | Clunes & Allandale | 1889–1933 |
  | Hugh Rawson | Kyneton | 1892–1900 |
  | George Russell | Grenville | 1892–1900 |
  | Carty Salmon | Talbot and Avoca | 1894–1901 |
  | George Sangster | Port Melbourne | 1894–1915 |
  | William Shiels | Normanby | 1880–1904 |
  | Robert Smith | Hawthorn | 1873–1877; 1878–1882; 1894–1900 |
  | Thomas Smith | Emerald Hill | 1889–1904 |
  | Michael Stapleton | Grenville | 1897–1899 |
  | Samuel Staughton Sr. | Bourke West | 1880; 1883–1901 |
  | David Sterry | Sandhurst South | 1889–1904 |
  | James Styles | Williamstown | 1894–1900 |
  | John William Taverner | Donald & Swan Hill | 1889–1904 |
  | John Thomson | Dundas | 1892–1900; 1902–1914 |
  | Richard Toutcher | Ararat | 1897–1935 |
  | William Trenwith | Richmond | 1889–1903 |
  | Albert Tucker | Fitzroy | 1874–1900 |
  | John Tucker | Melbourne South | 1896–1904 |
  | George Turner | St Kilda | 1889–1901 |
  | George J. Turner | Gippsland West | 1892–1900 |
  | Richard Vale | Ballarat West | 1886–1889; 1892–1902 |
  | William Watt | North Melbourne | 1897–1900; 1902–1914 |
  | James Wheeler | Daylesford | 1864–1867; 1880–1900 |
  | John White | Albert Park | 1892–1902 |
  | Edgar Wilkins | Collingwood | 1892–1908 |
  | Edward David Williams | Castlemaine | 1894–1904 |
  | Henry Williams | Eaglehawk | 1877–1883; 1889–1902 |
  | Ephraim Zox | Melbourne East | 1877–1899 |
  
      Francis Mason was Speaker. William Beazley was Chairman of Committees.
      Anderson died 3 May 1898; replaced by John Pollock Spiers, sworn-in June 1898.
      Hancock died 22 November 1899; replaced by Samuel Mauger, sworn-in January 1900.
      McCay lost a by-election on 20 December 1899 after accepting the position of Minister for Education; replaced by Harry Lawson.
      E. Murphy died 12 April 1900; replaced by George Holden, sworn-in June 1900.
      Stapleton died 9 November 1899; replaced by David Kerr, sworn-in December 1899.
      Zox died 23 October 1899; replaced by Samuel Gillott, sworn-in November 1899.
  