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About Russell Clarke
- William Lionel Russell Clarke (31 March 1876 – 14 May 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born in South Yarra to grazier William John Clarke (later a baronet) and Janet Marion Snodgrass.
- He attended Melbourne Grammar School, Scotch College, the University of Melbourne and finally Oxford University, where he received a Master of Arts in 1902.
- He had inherited part of his father's Ballarat estate in 1897.
- On 23 September 1908 he married Florence Douglas Mackenzie, with whom he had three children.
- In 1910 he purchased the Rupertswood estate from his brother Sir Rupert Clarke; he sold the Ballarat property in 1912 and Rupertswood in 1922, and farmed near Albury from 1912 to 1919 and at Hume Weir from 1919 to 1922.
- In 1922 he moved to South Yarra, where he was a member of the Melbourne University Council and the Melbourne Club.
- In 1910 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Council's Southern Province.
- A non-Labor member, he was successively a member of the Nationalist and United Australia parties.
- He lost his seat in 1937, and died at South Yarra in 1954.
- His son Michael was also a member of the Legislative Council.
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