The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-21
WHO THEY ARE.
Brief Pen Picture of the Distinr-
uished Visitors.

u1Sned Visitors.
The Right Honorable Lord Russell. of
hlllowen, LID, grand commander of
the order of St Michael and st. Georee
etc, whether pleading for his down
trouden countrymen, or abusing the
harmless and necessary seal of Alaskan
waters, in the interest of diplomacy or.
defending woman accused of a great
CRIME Mrs Maybrick), or a weakltng
SCION SCION OF a noble house in a divorce case
Carl Russell, but no relative). has been
sucdl an interesting figure TO America ms
thal ms coming TO settle the arbitration
question before the American Bar asso-
cation naturally calls for a brief review
on ms life. which has been eventful in
the way of events of peace that are more
famous than those of war.
Lore russell was born at Newry. Ire
lana, IN 1858, and TO this day he is a true
son of the land of shamrocks. shillelahs
and shindys. From ireland he gets his
love of defending the weaker cause his
WI, has gift of eloquence and his suavity
u ,' uelfi lea. and yet force in action
winch mas upset many a SNUG witness.
and among others, brought Pigott. the
HarneIl case rorger, on his knees and
sent him a predes6ined suicide away
from Albion. Mr.. Russell, as he was I'M
I'll 1885, when he was kndghted by Mr.
Gladstone. and then Sir Charles Russell
as he was up to 1894 when he was an.
pointed in April to become one of the
11OANS III <AIpSdi aIlQ received a life
peerage from the Gladstone Rosebery adj
nllnistra1on, was educated in Trinity
college, Dublin, and began his profess
Slonal career as a solicitor in Belfast.
1 he was called to the bar in London in
1888, and became queens counsel, and
was elected beT1caler of Lincoln's Inn in
1872 He entered politics as a Home
Ruler and Liberal, and was in parliament
ney general in Mr.. Gladstone's cabinet.
being the first Catholic who filled that
post SINCE the Reformation and the sec
ond Irishman. Lord Cairns. being the
other; Such was his reputation at the
bar then that John Morley, in a speech.
called htn the greatest advocate in
England. When the Gladstone govern
ment returned to power in 1892 Sir
Charles was again appointed attorney
general. In the six years between the
two administrations his private practice
had been enormous, amounting in all
10 n income Of S125 900 a year, and
aside from several causes ceIebres, he
mad reached the greatest height of his
fame in his conduct of the fasal of Par
nell on the charges of the London
Times. In this case his power as a
oss-examiner, and his eloquence, shone
as never before and attracted as much
attention in The United States as in Eng
land. In 1893 he was counsel for Great
Britain before the Boring Sea Tribunal.
acting with Sir Richard Webster. who
had been his opponent as counsel for
the Times in the Parnell case HIS
speeches made in this case and his
speeches on the home rule bill, brought
him a peerage just as Mr.. Gladstone
decided to give up the burden of the
Liberal premiership and to turn it over
to Lord Russell in April of that year he
was appointed successor TO Lord Cole
ridge, the lord chief justice, who died
in July, and it is as Lord Chief Justice
of England that he comes to America
ApfODoS of his visit here the English
Journals have had number of notices