Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, PC( 12 January 1908 – 23 June 1986) was a British judge and law lord.
Russell was born in London, the son of Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen and the grandson of Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, both Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.
His maternal grandfather was the Scottish politician Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee.
Following his father, he was educated at Beaumont College and Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a Third in Jurisprudence.
He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1931.
During the Second World War, Russell was commissioner into the Royal Artillery, and flew into France on D- Day by glider.
Wounded in action, he was mentioned in dispatches and received the French Croix de Guerre.
Returning to the bar after the war, he took silk in 1948 at the age of forty, like his father and grandfather.
He was Attorney General of the Duchy of Cornwall from 1951 to 1960.
A leading Chancery counsel, he was appointed to the Chancery Division of the High Court in 1960, receiving the customary knighthood.
He was promoted Lord Justice of Appeal in 1962, and was sworn of the Privy Council.
In 1960 he pled guilty to a charge of drunk driving, which was thought to have delayed his promotion.
Nevertheless, on 30 September 1975, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made a life peer with the title Baron Russell of Killowen, of Killowen in the County Down, the same title that his grandfather and father had held.
Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen,( 10 November 1832 – 10 August 1900) was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England.
He was the first Roman Catholic to serve as Lord Chief Justice since the Reformation.
Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Simon Gordon
Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool( born 30 August 1952), is a British crossbench peer.
The paternal grandson of Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, he was educated at Charterhouse School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and INSEAD.
His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Sir Arthur Howard.
Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he returned as an elected hereditary peer at a by-election in December 2014.
He sits as a crossbencher.
Edward Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool
Edward Richard Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool( 9 August 1834 – 20 February 1920), was a British journalist and Liberal politician.
Russell was a newspaper man who also involved himself in politics.
Born in London, he was largely self- made, rising to become Editor of the" Liverpool Daily Post", a position he held for almost fifty years.
He is reputed to have been a man of great ability, with high religious and moral standards.
Well- travelled, an advocate of Temperance, and regarded as able public speaker, he supported the Liberal Party and was a founder of the Liverpool Parliamentary Debating Society.
He corresponded with leading figures of the day, for example Annie Besant and H. H. Asquith.
In 1865 he left Liverpool for London where he worked for the" Morning Star" and other newspapers.
In writing parliamentary reports, he came to know members of government and was a friend of William Ewart Gladstone.
When Russell returned to Liverpool in 1869, it was as editor of the Daily Post which, under his leadership, became known as a leading provincial newspaper.
From 1885 to 1887 Russell was Liberal MP for the constituency of Glasgow Bridgeton, then in 1893 he was knighted.
In 1919, the year before his death, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Russell of Liverpool, of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool CBE, MC( 10 April 1895 – 8 April 1981), known as Langley Russell, was a British soldier, lawyer, historian and writer.
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, KG (c. 1527 – 28 July 1585) of Chenies in Buckinghamshire and of Bedford House in Exeter, Devon, was an English nobleman, soldier, and politician.
He was a godfather to the Devon-born sailor Sir Francis Drake.
He served as Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1584-5).
William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh
William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died August 9, 1613) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and knight.
He was the younger son of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and his first wife Margaret St. John.
His birthdate is uncertain, with some records showing that he was born as early as 1553, some as late as 1563.
He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and in September 1581 he was knighted.
Russell began his active military career in the Netherlands, and was noted for maintaining an effective fighting force in difficult circumstances.
He was appointed to the office of Governor of Flushing (1587-8), and in 1594 to the office of Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he served with flamboyance.
At the time, Ireland was on the point of rebellion, and there were two opinions in government on how to preserve the peace.
One faction sought negotiation with the Irish rebels, while the other - including Russell - favoured military force.
Russell's faction prevailed, and the rebellion grew into a general revolt, which lasted through the Nine Years War and ended with the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603.
He successfully relieved the northern town of Enniskillen, which had been under siege for several months.
During his time in Ireland, Russell fell into dispute with his chief military commander, Sir John Norris.
The dispute proved harmful to the crown government, and Russell was recalled to England in 1597, but only after he had defeated and killed the rebel Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne.
In 1599, Russell was named as leader of the forces defending western England in anticipation of a Spanish invasion.
However, the invasion plans were thwarted.
Russell built the mansion of Woburn.
In the 1590s, he consulted with three Dutchmen as to the potential for draining his manor of Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire; his son, Francis Russell, famously continued the family interest in drainage and led the undertakers in the first attempt to drain the Great Level of the Fens, later known as the Bedford Level.
Russell was created 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in 1603 by the new king James I, but he lost influence at court and retired to his estates, where he died on 9 August 1613.
Russell married on 13 February 1585 at Watford, London,
Elizabeth Long, only daughter and sole heiress of Henry Long of Shingay, Cambridgeshire, and granddaughter of Sir Richard Long.
They had one son, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.
The church registers of St Mary's Church Watford record that the child was baptized in 1587.
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Charlton Park
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Charlton Park( 29 May 1773 – 26 September 1839) was a Scottish physician.
Meredith Hanmer
Meredith Hanmer( 1543 – 1604) was a Welsh clergyman, known as a controversialist, historian, and translator.
He was considered embittered, by the Lord- Deputy William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh; but he appears now as a shrewd observer of the Protestant and nonconformist life of Ireland as founded around Trinity College, Dublin.
Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
Francis Xavier Joseph Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, PC, known as Frank Russell( 2 July 1867 – 20 December 1946) was a British judge.

Question: When did William Russell, 1St Baron Russell Of Thornhaugh's father die?
Answer: 28 July 1585