title: Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859
text: # Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859
  
  This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from the elections of 23 September – 24 October 1856 to those of 26 August – 26 September 1859. The Assembly was created in 1856.
  
      Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
  
  | Name | Electorate | Term in Office |
  | - | - | - |
  | Travers Adamson | The Murray | 1856–1859 |
  | William Anderson | Evelyn and Mornington | 1886–1889; 1894–1898 |
  | Butler Aspinall | Talbot | 1856–1864; 1866–1870 |
  | John Baragwanath | Rodney | 1856–1857 |
  | Francis Beaver | Belfast | 1856–1859 |
  | Robert Bennett | East Bourke | 1856–1857; 1859–1864 |
  | David Blair | Talbot | 1856–1859; 1868–1871 |
  | John Brooke | Geelong | 1856–1864 |
  | Daniel Cameron | Ovens | 1856–1857 |
  | Colin Campbell | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden & South Grenville | 1856–1859; 1874–1877 |
  | Daniel Campbell | Richmond | 1856–1859 |
  | Hugh Childers | Portland | 1856–1857 |
  | Andrew Clarke | South Melbourne | 1856–1858 |
  | James Davis | Alberton | 1856–1859 |
  | Charles Gavan Duffy | Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880 |
  | Thomas Embling | Collingwood | 1856–1861; 1866–1867 |
  | George Evans | Richmond | 1856–1864 |
  | Thomas Fellows | St Kilda | 1856–1858; 1868–1872 |
  | John Foster | Williamstown | 1856–1857 |
  | Alexander Fyfe | Geelong | 1856–1857 |
  | John Goodman | The Murray | 1856–1858 |
  | James Grant | Sandhurst Boroughs | 1856–1870; 1871–1885 |
  | Augustus Greeves | East Bourke | 1856–1857; 1857–1859; 1860–1861; 1864–1865 |
  | Charles Griffith | Dundas and Follett | 1856–1858 |
  | William Haines | South Grant | 1856–1858; 1860–1864 |
  | William Hammill | Wimmera | 1856–1857 |
  | George Harker | Collingwood | 1856–1860; 1864–1865; 1871–1874 |
  | Edward Henty | Normanby | 1856–1861 |
  | George Horne | Warrnambool | 1856–1861 |
  | Daniel Hughes | Portland | 1856–1859 |
  | John Humffray | North Grant | 1856–1864; 1868–1871 |
  | George Johnson | Kyneton Boroughs | 1856–1859 |
  | John King | Gippsland | 1856–1857 |
  | Peter Lalor | North Grenville | 1856–1871; 1874–1889 |
  | Henry Langlands / (John O'Shanassy) | Melbourne | 1857–1859 |
  | James McCulloch | Wimmera | 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878 |
  | Robert McDougall | West Bourke | 1856–1857 |
  | Archibald Michie | Melbourne | 1856–1861; 1863–1865; 1870–1871 |
  | David Moore | Melbourne | 1856–1859; 1864–1867 |
  | Francis Murphy | Murray Boroughs | 1856–1865; 1866–1871 |
  | John Myles | South Grant | 1856–1861 |
  | Patrick O'Brien | South Bourke | 1856–1859 |
  | John O'Shanassy | Kilmore | 1856–1865; 1877–1883 |
  | John Owens | Loddon | 1856–1859; 1861–1863 |
  | Alexander Palmer | Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856–1857 |
  | Charles Pasley | South Bourke | 1856–1857 |
  | Patrick Phelan | West Bourke | 1856–1860 |
  | Vincent Pyke | Castlemaine Boroughs | 1856–1857; 1859–1862 |
  | Charles Read | Geelong | 1856–1858 |
  | Andrew Rutherford | Colac | 1856–1857 |
  | William Rutledge | Villiers and Heytesbury | 1856–1859 |
  | Frederick Sargood | St Kilda | 1856–1857 |
  | Charles Sladen | Geelong | 1856–1857 |
  | John Smith | Melbourne | 1856–1879 |
  | Peter Snodgrass | Anglesey | 1856–1867 |
  | William Stawell | Melbourne | 1856–1857 |
  | Ebenezer Syme | Loddon | 1856–1859 |
  | Jeremiah Ware | Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden & South Grenville | 1856–1859 |
  | Jonathan Binns Were | Brighton | 1856–1857 |
  | Horatio Wills | South Grant | 1856–1859 |
  