Wilfred Adams Russell [SEP] date of death
Wilfred Adams Russell
Wilfred Adams Russell (1874 – 8 January 1932), was an Australian member of parliament in the Queensland Parliament
Early life and education.
Russell was born in Queensland in 1874 and educated in New South Wales, where he later acquired pastoral and agricultural interests.
Pastoralism.
In 1909 he acquired an interest in Dalmally Station near Roma and took up residence there in 1910. He further extended his pastoral interests with the acquisition of properties at Cunnamulla and Jimbour Station. Jimbour was purchased from Charles
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Russell was born at Willambi, Manilla, near Tamworth in New South Wales. He was the fourth of five children, and the only surviving son, born to grazier Wilfred Adams Russell (who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 1926–32) and his wife Millicent, daughter of pastoralist Charles Baldwin. The family moved to Queensland in 1910, settling at Dalmally station near Roma. In 1923, Wilfred acquired Jimbour Station, a property in the Darling Downs built by Sir Joshua Bell. Charles was educated at Cranbrook School