Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1878–1881


This is a list of members of the eighth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 1878 until April 1881. The members were elected at the 1878 election in May 1878.
NameElectorateTerm in Office
Thomas Atkinson Noarlunga1878–1887
M. P. F. BasedowBarossa1876–1890
William Henry BeanWest Torrens1870–1871, 1878–1884
Neville Blyth North Adelaide1860–1867, 1868–1870, 1871, 1877–1878
John BosworthWooroora1875–1884
James Boucaut Encounter Bay1861–1862, 1865–1870, 1871–1878
David BowerPort Adelaide1865–1870, 1875–1887
John Cox BrayEast Adelaide1871–1892
Henry Edward BrightWooroora1875–1884
William Henry BundeyOnkaparinga1871–1875, 1878–1881
John Carr Noarlunga1865–1879, 1881–1884
Frank Skeffington Carroll Light1878
Wentworth CavenaghYatala1862–1875, 1875–1881
Patrick Boyce CoglinFlinders1860–1868, 1870–1871, 1875–1881, 1882–1887
John Colton Noarlunga1862–1870, 1875–1878, 1878, 1880–1887
Ebenezer CookeFlinders1875–1882
John DarlingYatala1870–1871, 1876–1881, 1885–1887
John DownerBarossa1878–1901
George FowlerEast Adelaide1878–1881
Hugh FraserWest Adelaide1868–1870, 1871–1876, 1878–1881
Luke FurnerWallaroo1878–1890
Lavington GlydeVictoria1857–1875, 1877–1884
William HainesGumeracha1878–1884
Arthur HardyAlbert1875–1886, 1886–1887
Charles Simeon HareWallaroo1857, 1878–1881
John Hart, junior Port Adelaide1880–1881
George Charles HawkerVictoria1858–1865, 1875–1883, 1884–1895
Rudolph HenningAlbert1878–1885
Thomas KingSturt1875–1881, 1882–1885
George Strickland Kingston Stanley1862–1881
Friedrich KrichauffOnkaparinga1857–1858, 1870–1882, 1884–1890
Albert Henry LandseerMount Barker1875–1899
William James MagareyWest Torrens1878–1881
Charles MannStanley1870–1881
David Moody Light1878–1881, 1884–1887, 1896–1899
William Ranson MortlockFlinders1878–1884
John Langdon ParsonsEncounter Bay1878–1884, 1890–1893
Caleb Peacock North Adelaide1878–1881
Thomas PlayfordEast Torrens1868–1871, 1875–1887,
1887–1890, 1899–1901
Rowland ReesBurra1873–1881, 1882–1890
John Rounsevell Gumeracha1865–1868, 1880–1881
Ben RounsevellBurra1875–1890
James ShannonLight1878–1881
Francis William StokesMount Barker1878–1881
William Quin Port Adelaide1870–1871, 1875–1880
Robert Dalrymple RossWallaroo1875–1887
William Knox SimmsWest Adelaide1868–1870, 1871–1876, 1878–1881
Edwin Thomas SmithEast Torrens1871–1877, 1878–1893
William TownsendSturt1857–1882
Ebenezer Ward Gumeracha1870–1880, 1881–1890
William West-Erskine Encounter Bay1878–1881
James WhiteLight1871, 1875–1881