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Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet

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Name
  
Sir Russell,

Party
  
Conservative Party

Education
  
Eton College

Died
  
March 7, 1898

Role
  
Barrister


Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet

Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet (23 August 1828 – 7 March 1898) was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898.

Russell was the third son of Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet and his wife Marie Clotilde Mottet de la Fontaine. He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1853 and went the Oxford Circuit. In 1862 he became recorder of Wokingham. He was a County Court Judge of County Circuit No. 19 from 1866 to 1874, and of Circuit No. 49 from 1874 to February 1884. He succeeded his brother Charles as 4th baronet in 1883.

In the 1885 general election, Russell was elected the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham. He served until his death at the age of 69 in 1898.

Family

Russell married Constance Charlotte Lennox, daughter of Lord Arthur Lennox in 1871. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son George. They lived at Swallowfield Park in Berkshire. Their children were:

  • Marie Clothilde Russell (died 1953), married (Arthur) Ernest, second son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
  • Sir George Arthur Charles Russell, 5th Bt. (1868–1944)
  • Sir Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell, 6th Bt. (1878–1964)
  • References

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