page_title: Peter Nicol Russell
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Nicol Russell / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of listed building number 1188637.
context_page_description: Sir Peter Nicol Russell was an Australian foundry owner, manufacturing engineer, philanthropist and university benefactor.
context_section_description: Russell died childless in London on 10 July 1905, aged 89. He married in 1859 Charlotte, daughter of Dr Alexander Lorimer. Russell was knighted in 1904. Under his will a total sum of £16,000 was left to various institutions and charities in Sydney. The engineering school at the University of Sydney is known as the 'Peter Nicol Russell School of Engineering', and there are three Peter Nicol Russell scholarships for mechanical engineering, and a medal for research work. His portrait by W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., is in the great hall, and there is a memorial group by Edgar Bertram Mackennal in the university grounds.
  Peter Nicol Russell's company, P. N. Russell and Company, constructed the heritage listed Denison Bridge at Bathurst.
  Russell's monument at East Finchley Cemetery is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
caption: Russell's monument in East Finchley Cemetery in 2016.
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