1007 (846 a) Thomas Russell

Constituency : Buteshire  1880, Glasgow  1885

One  that  I  missed  earlier, Thomas  was  a  Scottish  businessman, a  partner  in  the  Saracen  Foundry  making  ornamental  ironwork ( the  head  of  the  firm  Walter  McFarlane  was  his  brother-in-law )  and  a  housing  developer  in  Bute.

Thomas  was  declared  the  winner  of the  normally  Conservative  seat  of  Buteshire  but  his  election  was  voided  on  petition. He  was  then  returned  unopposed  at  the  by-election  caused  when  George  Anderson  resigned  his  Glasgow  seat  to  become  Master  of  the  Mint  in  Melbourne  in  1885.

Thomas  appears  not  to  have  contested  any  of  the  new  Glasgow  seats  in  1885.

He  died  in  1911  aged  77.