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his meals at his own table (ii, 451). Sir Edward concludes, in fact, that he had &quot;no precise dogmas,&quot; and particularly resented the idea that morality depended on religion (p. 453). He was thus never more than a strong Theist, with an ethical and sentimental regard for Christianity. In his later years his mind lost its vigour, and at times he had brain trouble. D. Jan. 20, 1900.

RUSSELL, the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William, M.A., F.E.S., writer, second son of Viscount Amberley and brother of Earl Eussell. B. May 18, 1872. Ed. Cam bridge (Trinity College). He took first class in mathematics and moral science, and was for some years lecturer and fellow of Trinity College. Mr. Eussell is an able mathematician, and has considerable repute as a philosophical writer (chiefly for his Philosophical Essays, 1910 ; Problems of Philosophy, 1911 ; and articles in the Hib- bert Journal and elsewhere). He early took an interest in advanced politics, and published his German Social Democracy in 1896. He was admitted to the Eoyal Society in 1908. His Eationalist views are given in a chapter on &quot; Eeligion and the Churches &quot; in his Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916), and in an article in the Hibbert for October, 1912, on &quot;The Essence of Eeligion.&quot; He believes in a god who is a sort of world-soul, but rejects the idea of immortality and all dogmas.

RUSSELL, John, Viscount Amberley, eldest son of first Earl Eussell, writer. B. Dec. 10, 1842. ^. Harrow, Edinburgh, and Cambridge (Trinity College). From 1866 to 1868 he was Liberal member for Nottingham, and J. S. Mill described him in a letter to Carlyle in 1867 as &quot; one of the best of our rising politicians &quot; (Letters, ii, 87). He, however, retired from politics in 1868. In 1876 he published an Analysis of Religious Belief (2 vols.), in which he discarded all the creeds. A Spencerian Agnostic, he admitted an &quot; Unknowable Cause,&quot; but he urged that &quot; we should 693

seek that love in one another which we have hitherto been required to seek in God &quot; (ii, 494). He gave his son, the present Earl Eussell, a tutor of advanced views, and the appointment was cancelled after an appeal to the Court of Chancery. D. Jan. 9, 1876.

RUSSELL, John, M.A., educationist. B. 1855. Ed. Cranleigh, St. Germain-en- Laye, and Cambridge (St. John s College). Mr. Eussell was Foundation Scholar at his college, and took the Theological Tripos. He had prepared for the Church, but he found himself unable to sign the Thirty-nine Articles, and adopted teaching. He was assistant master at, in succession, the Islington High School, the Lycee de St. Omer, Whitgift Grammar School, and University College School (1888 to 1901). From 1892 to 1896 he was Eesident Warden of University Hall, and from 1901 to 1920 (when he retired) he was well known among progressive educationists as Head Master of the Hampstead King Alfred School. He is a member of the Teachers Guild, the Moral Education League, and the Eugenics Education Society ; and for many years he was foreign editor of the Journal of Education. He has written a number of educational w T orks and pamphlets, and in 1910 he delivered the Conway Memorial Lecture, The Task of Rationalism, which gives his views.

RUSSELL, second Earl, John Francis Stanley Eussell, son of Viscount Amberley, lawyer and writer. B. Aug. 12, 1865. Ed. Winchester and Oxford (Balliol). Earl Eussell has learned electrical engineering, and has qualified and practised as a barrister ; and he was a member of the London County Council from 1895 to 1904. He has written Lay Sermons (1902) and Divorce (1912). So far from departing from the views in which his father educated him, he is the only man in Who s Who ? to describe himself in that volume as &quot;Agnostic.&quot; He is also a Fabian Socialist. 694