Background
He was born at Woodbridge in Suffolk to soldier Andrew Hamilton Russell and Sarah Blundell.
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William Russell
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He settled in New South Wales in 1836, possibly after a naval career, and became a pastoralist based in the hunter River district. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Patrick"s Plains in 1859, but he was defeated in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until 1865.
Russell died at Tarban Creek in 1866.
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English