ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1881 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Following the resignation of James W Agnew -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 2 March 1881 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Thomas C SMART Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Christie Smart (1842-96): Elected 1881 Born 1816, Scotland Career: Educated University of Edinburgh. To VDL 1842. Surgeon at convict stations and various hospitals and asylums. Smart retired at the 1886 election. Died 26 March 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobart Mercury, 3 March 1881 MEANDER ==================================================================== Following the death of Thomas W Field -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations, polling 19 February 1881 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick W GRUBB 95 69.9 William C Sleigh 41 30.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 136 19.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Grubb was MLC for Tamar 1879-80. 2. Sleigh was MHA for Deloraine 1880-82. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Frederick Grubb (1844-1923): Elected 1879. Seat vacated 1880. Elected 1881 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tasmanian, 19 February 1881 PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 13 June, polling 19 June 1881 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Gray 55 45.8 William HODGSON 65 54.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 120 04.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gray was MHA for West Hobart 1872-77. Sorell 1882-89. 2. Hodgson was MLA for Sorell 1861-72, for Richmond 1872-81. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Hodgson (1814-91): Elected 1861, 1862, 1866, 1871, 1872, 1 877. Resigned 1881. Elected 1881 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hobart Mercury, 20 June 1881