Hugh McDiarmid Russell (11 February 1873 – 6 May 1948) was a general importer and exporter and member of the

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Biography

Windsor was born in

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to parents George Dick Russell and his wife Mary (née McDiarmid). He was educated at Brisbane Normal School and Brisbane Grammar School and began work at Hower Bros. and then Queensland Agricultural Company. By 1901 he had his own business as a general importer and exporter. On 1 December 1904 Russell married Violet Bailey (died 1968)Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 31 March 2016. and they had no children. He died in May 1948 and his funeral proceeded from St Augustine's Church of England,

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to the

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Public career

Russell was an alderman in the Hamilton Town Council from 1910 until 1925 including its mayor in 1914-1915. He then joined the

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as an alderman in 1925-1926. At the 1926 Queensland state election, Russell, the CPNP candidate, won the seat of

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, holding it until it was abolished before the 1932 state election. He then won the new seat of

, holding it until he was defeated in 1941. For the last five years of his political career he was the state leader of the

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. He was one of the most talented speakers in parliament, especially when it came to taxation, local government and government finances. Russell was President of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce from 1931 until 1933, and a member of the State Stores Board, the Brisbane Tramways Trust, the Hamilton Red Cross Society and the Hamilton Patriotic Association.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Hugh McDiarmid Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1873 births 1948 deaths United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Queensland