Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen. Irish statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England 1894-1900.
Born Ireland. His three sisters all became nuns and his brother Matthew Russell was ordained as a Jesuit priest. He took up a legal profession, became a Liberal MP with a constituency in Ireland and then Hackney South, advocated Home Rule. Died London.
This drawing shows him in 1894.
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Sir Charles Russell
Hampstead Liberal Club Foundation stone laid by Sir Charles Russell, QC, MP, ...
Born Chancery Lane. An unpopular Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Supported Charles I against Parliament and so the Long Parliament impeached him and he was beheaded on Tower Hill.
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1923. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
United States ambassador to Great Britain 1941-46. Born New York City. Succeeded the pro-appeasement ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, Winant was with Churchill when news arrived of the attack on Pearl H...
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
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