Claude Hilton Bushell (25 June 1873 – 6 December 1930) was an Australian politician. He was born in Wilberforce to farmer David Bushell and Izeppa Winton. He attended

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Public School and became a commercial traveller. He was then a storekeeper first at

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and then at Mandurama. Around 1900 he married Mary Pellett at

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; they had four daughters. In 1917 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Lyndhurst, but he retired in 1920. Around 1928 he married his second wife, Janet Baker. He died in

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in 1930.

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1873 births 1930 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub