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First Council Speakers and Officers

The offices of Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of the Executive Council were held concurrently from 1825 until 1 July 1843.

SPEAKERS
Alexander Macleay (1767 - 1848)1.8.1843 - 19.5.1846
Sir Charles Nicholson (1808 - 1903)20.5.1846 - 29.2.1856

CLERKS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Francis Stephen ( ? - 1837)1824-25
Henry Grattan Douglass (1790 - 1865)1825-27
Thomas de la Condamine (1797 - 1873)1827-28
Edward Deas Thomson (1800 - 1879)1828-36
William Macpherson (1785 - 1866)1837-42
Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether (1811 - 1899)1842-43
William Macpherson (1785 - 1866)1843-56

SERJEANTS-AT-ARMS
John Stirling1844-46
William Harvie Christie (1808 - 1873)1847-52
Edmund Lockyer (1784 - 1860)1852-56


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