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LEFT RUSSELL 150 RUSSELL of the organizers and the first superin- tendent of the National Anti-Saloon League in America. He was chairman of the executive committee of the League from 1903 to 1909, and served also in various executive capacities in that or- ganization. He founded the Lincoln-Lee Legion and was a founder and the first American president of the World League Against Alcoholism. He wrote "A Law- yer's Examination of the Bible" (1893), and many pamphlets and articles against liquor traffic. RUSSELL, ISAAC FRANKLIN, an American jurist and educator, born at Hamden, Conn., in 1857. He graduated from the New York University in 1875, and from 1881 was professor of political science at that university. He served as chief justice of the Court of Special Sessions in New York, from 1910 to 1916. He contributed many articles on law to law journals and to encyclopae- dias. RUSSELL, JOHN, EARL RUSSELL, K.G-., an English statesman, third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford; born in London, August 18, 1792. Educated at Edinburgh University, he entered Par- liament in 1813 before attaining his ma- jority. In 1819 he made his first motion in favor of parliamentary reform, of which through life he was the champion. Though temporarily unseated in 1826, owing to his advocacy of Catholic Eman- cipation, he carried a motion in 1828 against the Test Acts and thus led to their repeal. In 1831 he was paymaster- general in Lord Grey's administration, and introduced the first Reform Bill to the House of Commons. He was home secretary from 1835-1839, when he be- came colonial secretary. From 1841 till 1845 he led the opposition against Peel, with whom, however, he was in sympa- thy on the Corn Law question; and when Peel resigned in 1846 Russell formed a ministry and retained power till Febru- ary, 1852. He re-entered office in De- cember, 1852, as foreign secretary under Lord Aberdeen, and in 1855 became colo- nial secretary in Lord Palmerston's cab- inet. He represented Great Britain at the Vienna conference, but resigned of- fice in July of the same year. In 1859 he became foreign secretary, the Trent affair with the United States occurring while he was in office. In 1861 he was raised to the peerage, and in 1865 suc- ceeded Lord Palmerston in the leader- ship of the Liberal party; but when his new reform bill was rejected in 1866 he went out of office. He was the author of numerous books and pamphlets, in- cluding lives of Thomas Moore, Lord William Russell, and Charles Fox, and "Recollections and Suggestions" (1813*- 1873), published in 1875. He died in 1878. RUSSELL, LILLIAN (MRS. ALEX- ANDER P. MOORE), an American ac- tress, born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1861. She studied vocal and violin music in Chicago, and grand opera under Leopold Damrosch. Her first appearance on the stage was made in 1879 as a member of the chorus of a "Pinafore" company. Somewhat later she appeared as a bal- lad singer at Pastor's Theater, New York, at which time she first used the stage name of "Lillian Russell," her real name being Leonard. Until 1899 she sang at the Casino Theater, New York. For several seasons she was one of the most successful members of Weber & Field's Stock Company, joining later, as prima donna, the McCaull Opera Company, and organized, still later, her own company with which she appeared with great suc- cess both in England and the United States. She has also made frequent appearances on the vaudeville stage, where her lecture, "How to Live a Hun- dred Years," became well known. Dur- ing the World War she took an active interest in Red Cross and Liberty Loan campaigns. RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN, CHAS., BARON, a British jurist, born at Newry, Ireland, in 1832. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was admit- ted to the bar in 1859. He gained prominence as an advocate and was ap- pointed Attorney-General in the Glad- stone cabinet in 1886, and held that office again from 1892 to 1894. In 1893 he was counsel for the British claims before the Bering Sea Commission. In the following year he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made a life peer. In the same year he became Chief Justice. He served as a member of the Venezuelan Boundary Arbitration Tribunal in 1899. He died in 1900. RUSSELL, WILLIAM, LORD RUS- SELL, an English statesman, third son of the 5th Earl of Bedford; born Sept. 29, 1639. He entered Parliament imme- diately after the Restoration, and in 1669 married Rachel, Lady Vaughan, afterward known for her "Letters." He was a prominent leader of the Whigs, animated by a bitter distrust of the Roman Catholics and a strong love of political liberty. In 1679 he was a mem- ber of the new privy council appointed by Charles II. to ingratiate himself with the Whigs. Resigning in 1680, he be- came conspicuous in the efforts to ex- clude the king's brother, the Roman