Henry Stuart Russell

[2] Russell was born in Halliford, Middlesex, England, the son of an East India Company officer.

[3] He migrated to Sydney, Australia in 1840, where he stayed at a New England station belonging to Arthur Hodgson, his second cousin.

[1] In May 1842, Russell joined an exploration party in search of sheep country in Wide Bay.

Also in 1888, he published a book, The Genesis of Queensland, detailing the early settlement and the growth of the pastoral industry in the area.

His first marriage was in 1851 to Charlotte, sister of Philip Pinnock, a senior police magistrate and sheriff of Queensland.