Former Presidents

There have been 20 Presidents of the Legislative Council since the establishment of responsible government in 1856. A list is provided below.

Name	From	To
The Hon. Sir Alfred Stephen	20 May 1856	28 Jan 1857
The Hon. John Hubert Plunkett	29 Jan 1857	6 Feb 1858
The Hon. Sir William Westbrooke Burton	9 Feb 1858	10 May 1861
The Hon. William Charles Wentworth	24 June 1861	10 Oct 1862
The Hon. Sir Terence Aubrey Murray	14 Oct 1862	22 June 1873
The Hon. John Hay	8 July 1873	20 Jan 1892
The Hon. John Lackey	26 Jan 1892	23 May 1903
The Hon. Francis Bathurst Suttor	23 May 1903	4 April 1915
The Hon. Frederick Flowers	27 April 1915	14 Dec 1928
The Hon. John Beverley Peden	5 Feb 1929	22 April 1934
The Hon. John Beverley Peden	24 April 1934	22 April 1946
The Hon. Ernest Henry Farrar (Acting)	27 July 1938	22 April 1946
The Hon. Ernest Henry Farrar	30 April 1946	16 June 1952
The Hon. William Edward Dickson	18 August 1952	22 April 1964
	23 April 1964	22 May 1966
The Hon. Ernest Gerard Wright (Acting)	23 May 1956	5 Dec 1956
The Hon. Harry Vincent Budd	9 Aug 1952	22 April 1970
The Hon. Sir Harry Vincent Budd	23 April 1970	5 Nov 2009
The Hon. John Richard Johnson	7 Nov 1978	5 March 1984
	1 May 1984	3 July 1991
The Hon. Max Frederick Willis	3 July 1991	29 June 1998
The Hon. Virginia Anne Chadwick	29 June 1998	5 March 1999
The Hon. Dr Meredith Anne Burgmann	11 May 1999	2 March 2007
The Hon. Peter Thomas Primrose	8 May 2007	17 Nov 2009
The Hon. Amanda Fazio	24 November 2009	3 May 2011