Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1897–1900


This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1897 election and the 1900 election.
Party affiliations were relatively loose during the period, although a Liberal grouping had formed over the 1890s around Sir Edward Braddon, the Premier of Tasmania until 12 October 1899, and Andrew Inglis Clark. A separate grouping, generally described as Ministerial, supported Elliott Lewis, who was Premier for the final five months of the parliamentary term. As was common at such changes in Tasmanian politics, several Liberal MHAs affiliated with the new government by the time of the 1900 election.
The 1897 election was the first to use a limited version of the Hare-Clark system within Hobart and Launceston, which were given 6 and 4 seats respectively, while still using first past the post single-member constituencies elsewhere in the state. It was renewed and adjusted periodically until the 1909 election, when the entire State was redivided into five electorates using the Hare-Clark system.
NamePartyDistrictYears in office
William AikenheadMinisterial/LiberalDevonport/Latrobe1898–1902
Frank ArcherLiberalSelby1893–1902
Jonathan BestMinisterialDeloraine1894–1897; 1899–1912; 1913
Stafford BirdIndependent/MinisterialFranklin1882–1903; 1904–1909
Sir Edward BraddonLiberalWest Devon1879–1888; 1893–1901
John BradleyLiberal/MinisterialHobart1893–1900
Nicholas John BrownIndependentCumberland1875–1903
William BrownIndependent/LiberalCampbell Town1882–1889; 1893–1903
William BurburyMinisterial/IndependentOatlands1899–1903
Daniel BurkeMinisterialCressy1893–1903
Norman CameronMinisterialDeloraine1893–1894; 1897–1899;
1912–1913; 1925–1928
Andrew Inglis ClarkLiberalHobart1878–1882; 1887–1898
Matthew ClarkeLiberalLaunceston1897–1900
Alfred CrispLiberalHobart1886–1900
Edward CrowtherLiberal/MinisterialKingborough1878–1912
John DaviesIndependent/MinisterialFingal1884–1913
Henry DobsonMinisterialBrighton1891–1900
Henry DumaresqLiberal/MinisterialLongford1886–1903
John EvansIndependentKingborough1897–1937
Alexander FowlerLiberal/IndependentLaunceston1893; 1897–1901
Sir Philip FyshLiberalHobart1873–1878; 1894–1898
James GaffneyLiberal/MinisterialLyell1899–1903
George GilmoreMinisterialGeorge Town1893–1900; 1903–1906
Charles HallIndependentWaratah1897–1903
John HamiltonLiberal/MinisterialGlenorchy1887–1903
William HartnollMinisterialLaunceston1884–1902
John HenryMinisterialDevonport1891–1897
Charles HogginsLiberalHobart1898–1900; 1900–1903;
1917–1919
George LeathamLiberal/MinisterialNew Norfolk1891–1903; 1906–1909
Elliott LewisMinisterialRichmond1886–1903; 1909–1922
Charles MackenzieMinisterialWellington1886–1909
William McWilliamsLiberal/IndependentRingarooma1893–1900
Edward MilesLiberalGlamorgan1883–1899; 1900
Edward MulcahyLiberalHobart1891–1903; 1910–1919
Henry MurrayMinisterial/IndependentLatrobe/Devonport1891–1900; 1902–1909
William PageIndependentHobart1897–1900
Alfred PillingerLiberalOatlands1876–1899
William PropstingLiberalHobart1899–1905
Thomas ReibeyLiberalWestbury1874–1903
Frederick ShawMinisterialGlamorgan1899–1903
Ronald SmithLiberalLaunceston1897–1900
John Charles von SteiglitzMinisterialEvandale1891–1903
Don UrquhartLiberal/IndependentMontagu1894–1903; 1906–1909
Joseph WoollnoughMinisterialSorell1893–1903