Hugh Macdonald (c. 1850 – 18 October 1906) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Duntulm in

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to Alexander Macdonald and Eliza Cartwright. He arrived in Australia in 1876 and worked on his uncle's station at

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. An early organiser of the Shearers Union, he was also elected an alderman at

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several times. On 19 December 1898 he married Mary Davidson Hewitt, with whom he had a son. He was elected to the

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in 1894 as the

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member for

. He transferred to Castlereagh in 1904, but died in

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in 1906.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonald, Hugh 1850s births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians British emigrants to Australia