Percy Joseph Russell

Percy Joseph Russell (16 December 1861 – 24 September 1946) was an Australian politician who served as the mayor of Hawthorn.

Percy Joseph Russell
29th, 41st & 51st Mayor of Hawthorn
In office 1894–1895
Preceded by	Robert Hooke
Succeeded by	Robert Barbour
In office 1905–1906
Preceded by	William Andrews
Succeeded by	Charles Dalley
In office 1915–1917
Preceded by	Edward Rigby
Succeeded by	Robert Lord
Personal details
Born	16 December 1861 Serpentine Station, Victoria, Australia
Died	24 September 1946(1946-09-24) (aged 84) Sassafras, Victoria, Australia

Russell's father was Robert Russell, an English-born pastoralist who worked on the Serpentine station, and his mother was Maria Ievers McDonough who was born in Ireland.^[1] He was born at Serpentine station in 1861 and educated at Hawthorn Grammar and Wesley College.^[2]

On 1 June 1887 Russell became a licensed attorney, solicitor and proctor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and he received a large amount of work associated with the Melbourne land boom. In March 1890 he was elected as a councillor for Hawthorn unopposed and he held the position until August 1919. He was elected Mayor of Hawthorn for three terms in 1893, 1905, 1915, and 1916, and served as President of the Municipal Association of Victoria from 1904 to 1919. In 1893 he married Delia Constance Law and they had a son.^[1] In 1917 he was nominated to run for the seat of East Yarra in the Victorian Legislative Council.^[3]

Russell died in Sassafras in 1946 and was buried in Boroondara Cemetery.^[1]