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About Russell Stokes
- Russell Newton Stokes (26 August 1903 – 6 July 1974) was an Australian politician. Born in Ivanhoe to manufacturer Henry Richmond Stokes and Emma Rowdon Wippell, he attended Melbourne Grammar School and became a manufacturer with the family firm Stokes & Sons, based in Brunswick.
- He was the managing director and chairman of the company from 1932 to 1974.
- Stokes also owned a 600-acre dairy and Angus property at Yarra Glen and further property at Yea.
- He married Margaret Black, with whom he had three children, on 16 November 1935.
- In 1944 he was the co-author of Political Rehabilitation in Australia, in which year he was also a foundation member of the Liberal Party.
- He sat on the member qualifications committee from 1954 to 1956 and in 1958 was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Evelyn.
- He served until his retirement in 1973 and died in 1974 at Cairns; he is buried at Warringal Cemetery at Heidelberg.
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