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 contemporary, "he left the studye of the law, and betooke himself to travell, and, getting into the good opinion of the Erl of Pembroke and other noblemen, was put into the place of Surveyor of the Court of Wards, and afterwards knighted" (1618). He had before this obtained a reputation as a poet and a critic, and was an associate of Ben Jonson, (q.v.), and other literary celebrities of the time. In 1620 he entered Parliament, in which he sat till 1648, taking an active and enlightened part in its debates. Many of his speeches published during his life, and reprinted in Rushworth's Collections, may be found in the Middle Temple collection of Tracts. His Poems were published in 1660, and also Le Prince d' Amour, an Account of the Revels at the Middle Temple in 1599. Memoirs of his Life, by J. A. Manning, were published in 1841.

Admitted 6 July, 1761.

Son and heir of James Ruffhead of St. George's, Hanover Square, in which parish he was born in the year 1723. He was admitted ad eundem from the Inner Temple, where he entered 2 Dec. 1742, and was called to the Bar 28 June, 1754. The circumstances attending his entrance are peculiar. His father, the king's baker in Piccadilly, bought a lottery ticket for him, which, being drawn a prize of £500, was applied to the purpose of the son's education. After his call to the Bar, whilst waiting for opportunities of practice, he wrote a variety of pamphlets, and edited a periodical called the Con-Test. In 1767 he undertook to edit the works of Alexander Pope, with a life of the poet, the result of which appeared in 1769. He also assisted in an edition of Jacob's Law Dictionary, and at the time of his death (25 Oct. 1769) was engaged in editing a new edition of Chamber's Encyclopædia; but he is best known as the editor of an edition of the Statutes, known as the Statutes at Large. His published literary works bear the following titles: The Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to 1765; Index to the Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to George III.; Considerations on the present Dangerous Crisis (1763); Life of Alexander Pope (1769).

Admitted 19 June, 1879.

Eldest son of Arthur Russell, brewer, of Newry, where he was born 10 Nov. 1832. His admission to the Middle Temple was ad eundem from Lincoln's Inn, where he had entered in 1856, after matriculating at Trinity College, Dublin, and where he had been called to the Bar in 1859, and had been a Bencher since 1872, in which year he had also taken silk. In 1880 he entered Parliament for Dundalk, and in 1885 for South Hackney, becoming in the same year Attorney-General. In 1894 he became a Lord of Appeal, and was raised to the Peerage as Lord Russell of Killowen, and in the same year, on the death of Lord Coleridge (q.v.), was appointed Lord Chief Justice, which office he held till his death on the 10th Aug. 1900.

At the Bar Lord Russell attained a great reputation as a powerful advocate, and was engaged in many cases of celebrity, particularly in the action against the Times newspaper in 1888 for libel, in which he was counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Parnell, and was successful in exposing the forgeries of Richard Pigott and in extorting an apology from the defendants. His speech before the Commission on this occasion lasted six days, and was pronounced by Lord Hannen, the President of the Court, "a great one, worthy of the occasion." He also won great distinction as the representative of the English Government in the court