in Auckland in October 1918, and was blamed for the resulting Spanish flu epidemic which killed at least 8,000 New Zealanders. As a result, he lost his electorate in the 1919 election. He unsuccessfully contested the 1921 by-election for Auckland East, and Avon again in the 1922 general election, but was never again elected to Parliament. In 1935, Russell was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. Death Russell died on 28 June 1937 in Eastbourne, Wellington. He was buried at Holy Trinity Avonside in Christchurch. Notes References |- |- |- |- |- 1854 births 1937 deaths New Zealand Liberal Party MPs Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates Chancellors of the University of Canterbury People from Foxton, New Zealand Unsuccessful candidates in the 1881 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1887 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1896 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1902 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1919 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1922 New Zealand general election Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives English emigrants to Australia English emigrants to New Zealand Burials at Holy Trinity Avonside New Zealand journalists 19th-century New Zealand politicians