Edric Claud Hamilton-Russell (24 November 1904 – 1984) was a British

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and mining engineer who was director of pre-nationalisation collieries. Hamilton-Russell was the son of Hon. Claud Eustace Hamilton-Russell and Maria Lindsay Wood. He was educated at

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and at

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. At Cambridge, he was a member of the

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. In 1925, rowing for Third Trinity, Cambridge, he won

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, partnering Robert Morrison. They beat Guy Oliver Nickalls and Richard Lucas in the final. In 1926 he was a member of the

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crew in the

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. He also won Silver Goblets again partnering H R Carver, when they beat Nickalls and A D B Pearson in the final. Hamilton-Russell became a chartered surveyor and mining engineer. In 1940 he was general manager of Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd. and a director of the Netherton Coal Company of Newcastle. He lived at Badsworth Grange. In 1950, after the

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, he was a senior partner in William Armstrong & Sons of Newcastle upon Tyne who were consulting mining engineers and mineral valuers. He was mineral adviser to the

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for England and chairman of the Netherton Coal Company. He was living at Acomb House,

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, Northumberland.Durham Mining Museum Who's Who
/ref> Hamilton-Russell died in 1984 Hamilton-Russell married Helen Rosa Humble, daughter of William Humble, on 11 April 1932.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton-Russell, Edric Claud 1904 births 1984 deaths British male rowers British mining engineers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

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