12th Parliament of South Australia

Twelfth Parliament of South Australia
← 11th 13th →
Old Parliament House (1872)
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of South Australia
Meeting place	Old Parliament House
Term	2 June 1887 – 19 March 1890
Election	19 March – 21 April 1887
Legislative Council
Members	24
President	Henry Ayers
House of Assembly
Members	52
Speaker	Robert Dalrymple Ross (until 31 May 1888) John Cox Bray (from 31 May 1888)
Sessions
1st 2 June 1887 – 9 December 1887 2nd 13 December 1887 – 17 December 1887 3rd 31 May 1888 – 8 December 1888 4th 6 June 1889 – 6 December 1889

The 12th 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: Edwin Gordon Blackmore
• Clerk's assistant and Sergeant-at-arms: Albert Egerton Wilby (until 18 April 1888), John Cummins Morphett (from 18 April 1888)

House of Assembly

• Speaker of the House of Assembly: Robert Dalrymple Ross (until 31 May 1888), John Cox Bray (from 31 May 1888)
• Chairman of Committees: Ebenezer Ward
• Clerk of the House of Assembly: Frederick Halcomb
• Clerk's assistant and Sargeant-at-arms: John Cummins Morphett (until 18 May 1888), Albert Egerton Wilby (from 18 April 1888)

Members elected in 1885 are marked with an asterisk (*).

9 of the 24 seats in the upper house were contested in the elections in May 1888. Members elected in 1888 are marked with an asterisk (*).

Albert ▌ Andrew Dods Handyside ▌ Beaumont Arnold Moulden Barossa ▌ Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow ▌ John William Downer Burra ▌ Frederick William Holder ▌ William Benjamin Rounsevell East Adelaide ▌ John Cox Bray ▌ Johann Theodor Scherk East Torrens ▌ Edwin Thomas Smith ▌ Saul Solomon Encounter Bay ▌ Henry Edward Downer ▌ Charles Henry Hussey Flinders ▌ William Austin Horn ▌ John Moule Frome ▌ Clement Giles ▌ Ebenezer Ward Gladstone ▌ Alfred Catt ▌ James Henderson Howe

Gumeracha ▌ Robert Homburg ▌ John Lancelot Stirling Light ▌ Jenkin Coles ▌ Paddy Glynn Mount Barker ▌ John Alexander Cockburn ▌ Albert Henry Landseer Newcastle ▌ Thomas Burgoyne ▌ Thomas Playford Noarlunga ▌ Charles James Dashwood ▌ Alexander McDonald North Adelaide ▌ Lewis Cohen ▌ George Charles Hawker Onkaparinga ▌ Joseph Colin Francis Johnson ▌ Rowland Rees Port Adelaide ▌ George Feltham Hopkins ▌ William Edward Mattinson Stanley ▌ Peter Paul Gillen ▌ Charles Kimber

Sturt ▌ John Greeley Jenkins ▌ William Frederick Stock Victoria ▌ Friedrich Edouard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff ▌ John James Osman Wallaroo ▌ David Bews ▌ Luke Lidiard Furner West Adelaide ▌ Lawrence Grayson ▌ Charles Cameron Kingston West Torrens ▌ Benjamin Gould ▌ Benjamin Nash Wooroora ▌ John William Castine ▌ John James Duncan Yatala ▌ Josiah Howell Bagster ▌ William Gilbert Yorke Peninsula ▌ Harry Bartlett ▌ Robert Caldwell

House of Assembly Speaker John Cox Bray (from 1888)

• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1885–1888
• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1888–1891
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1887–1890

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