10th Parliament of South Australia

Tenth Parliament of South Australia
← 9th 11th →
Old Parliament House (1872)
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of South Australia
Meeting place	Old Parliament House
Term	2 June 1881 – 19 March 1884
Election	8–27 April 1881
Legislative Council
Members	18 (until 29 May 1882) 24 (from 29 May 1882)
President	Henry Ayers
House of Assembly
Members	46
Speaker	Robert Dalrymple Ross
Sessions
1st 2 June 1881 – 18 November 1881 2nd 1 June 1882 – 17 November 1882 3rd 31 May 1883 – 28 February 1884

The 10th Parliament of South Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the South Australian state government, composed of the South Australian Legislative Council and the South Australian House of Assembly.

Legislative Council

• President of the Legislative Council: Henry Ayers
• Clerk of the Legislative Council: Francis Corbet Singleton
• Clerk's assistant and Sergeant-at-arms: Frederick Halcomb

House of Assembly

• Speaker of the House of Assembly: Robert Dalrymple Ross
• Chairman of Committees: William Townsend (until 31 October 1882), Luke Lidiard Furner (from 31 October 1882)
• Clerk of the House of Assembly: George William de la Poer Beresford
• Clerk's assistant and Sargeant-at-arms: Edwin Gordon Blackmore

6 of the 18 seats in the upper house were contested in the election on 20 April 1881. Members elected in 1881 are marked with an asterisk (*).

▌ Henry Ayers* ▌ Richard Chaffey Baker ▌ William Christie Buik* ▌ Allan Campbell ▌ John Crozier ▌ John Dunn, jun. ▌ Thomas Hogarth ▌ John Hodgkiss ▌ William Morgan

▌ Alexander Borthwick Murray ▌ James Pearce ▌ John Pickering* ▌ James Garden Ramsay ▌ James Rankine* ▌ William Sandover ▌ Henry Scott ▌ John Brodie Spence* ▌ Robert Alfred Tarlton*

Legislative Council President Henry Ayres

A special election was held on 29 May 1882 as the Legislative Council expanded to 24 members. Members elected in 1882 are marked with an asterisk (*).

Albert ▌ Arthur Hardy ▌ Rudolph Henning Barossa ▌ Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow ▌ John Downer Burra ▌ Ben Rounsevell ▌ Ebenezer Ward East Adelaide ▌ John Cox Bray ▌ Thomas Johnson East Torrens ▌ Thomas Playford ▌ Edwin Thomas Smith Encounter Bay ▌ Henry Edward Downer ▌ Simpson Newland Flinders ▌ Patrick Boyce Coglin ▌ William Ranson Mortlock ▌ Andrew Tennant Gumeracha ▌ William Haines ▌ Samuel Tomkinson

Light ▌ Jenkin Coles ▌ Robert Dixson ▌ Henry Vivian Moyle Mount Barker ▌ Albert Henry Landseer ▌ John Lancelot Stirling Noarlunga ▌ Thomas Atkinson ▌ John Colton North Adelaide ▌ John Langdon Parsons Onkaparinga ▌ John Carr ▌ Rowland Rees Port Adelaide ▌ David Bower ▌ William Mattinson Stanley ▌ Alfred Catt ▌ James Henderson Howe Sturt ▌ Thomas King ▌ Josiah Symon

Victoria ▌ Lavington Glyde ▌ William Whinham Wallaroo ▌ William Henry Beaglehole ▌ Luke Furner ▌ Robert Dalrymple Ross West Adelaide ▌ Hugh Fraser ▌ Charles Cameron Kingston West Torrens ▌ William Henry Bean ▌ Frederick Estcourt Bucknall Wooroora ▌ John Bosworth ▌ Henry Edward Bright Yatala ▌ Josiah Howell Bagster ▌ William Gilbert

House of Assembly Speaker Robert Dalrymple Ross

• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1881–1885
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1881–1884

• "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836–2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. 24 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011.