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 The reorganization of the Judicial and Forest Departments, the introduction of Railways, the reduction of the State debt, and the organization of the Representative Assembly of notables occupied his attention, but he did not live long enough to see his reforms completed, He died in 1883.

RUSSELL, SIR DAVID (1809–1884)

Son of Col. James Russell: born 1809: educated at Edinburgh and Dresden: entered the Army, 1828: commanded the 5th Brigade at the relief of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell: and a Brigade at the assaults on the Alambagh, and at the capture of Lucknow: C.B.: K.C.B. in 1871: Lt-General, 1871: General, 1877: commanded the S.E. District, 1868–72: died Jan. 16, 1884.

RUSSELL, SIR EDWARD LECHMERE (1818–1904)

Son of Maj-General L. C. S. Russell, C.B.: born in 1818: educated at Trinity College, Cambridge: joined the 12th Bombay N.I. in 1837, and served in the Afghan and Sind campaigns of 1842–3: was Adjutant of the Sind Irregular Horse at Miani, Hyderabad, Oomercote: Military Secretary in 1856 to Lord Elphinstone. Governor of Bombay: in command at the base in the Abyssinian expedition of 1868, and was made a K.C.S.I, for his services: Political Resident and Commandant at Aden, 1868–71: commanded the Northern Division of the Bombay Army, 1872–6, and then retired: General, 1877: died at Bath, Jan. 1904.

RUSSELL, GEORGE EDWARD (1787–1863)

I.C.S.: son of Claud Russell, M.C.S.: educated at Eton: went out to Madras in the Civil Service, 1802: Member of the Board of Revenue, Madras, 1822: First Member, 1824: acting Resident at Mysore, 1832: Special Commissioner, 1832, to inquire into the causes of disturbances in Ganjam and Vizagapatam: restored tranquillity in 1834: on the occurrence of disturbances in Gumsur, 1835, Russell was sent on a special mission and quelled the insurrection there and among the Khonds: Member of Council, Madras, Sep. 1834, to Jan. 1838: retired: died Oct. 20, 1863.

RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM ERSKINE (1853–)

Born Feb. 3, 1853: son of Lord Charles Russell: educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford: Scholar: M.P. for Aylesbury, 1880–5, and for N. Bedfordshire, 1892–5: Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, 1883–5: Under Secretary for India, 1892–4: and for the Home Department, 1894–5: on the London County Council, 1889–95: wrote a life of W. E. Gladstone, and of Sydney Smith: Collections and Recollections, and edited Matthew Arnold's letters.

RUSSELL, SIR HENRY, BARONET (1751–1836)

Son of Michael Russell: born Aug. 8, 1751: educated at Charterhouse and Queen's College, Cambridge: called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1783: Commissioner in Bankruptcy, 1775: Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta, 1708: knighted: made Chief Justice, 1807: Baronet, 1812: retired, 1813: Privy Councillor, 1816: died Jan. 18, 1836.

RUSSELL, SIR HENRY, BARONET (1783–1852)

Born May 27, 1783: son of Sir, Bart. (q.v.), Chief Justice of Bengal, 1807–13: went to Calcutta with his father. May, 1798: appointed a writer, Nov. 1798: Assistant Secretary to the Resident at Hyderabad, 1800: Secretary. 1802: Third Member of the Commission appointed to investigate the claims of the Nawab of the Carnatic, 1807: officiating Resident at Poona, 1809: Resident at Hyderabad, 1811–20, during the Mahratta-Pindari war, in which the Nizam's Army proved of much service, Lord Wellesley spoke of Russell, when Resident, as the most promising young man he knew: proceeded to Europe, Dec. 27, 1820: was out of service in 1826, having exceeded 5 years' absence from India: he wrote (1842–9) letters to the Times, signed "Civis," which were reprinted: died April 19, 1852.

RUSSELL, SIR JAMES (1781–1859)

Son of Col. William Russell: born at Madras, 1781: entered the E. I. Co.'s military service, Madras, 1795: engaged in the principal military affairs in India, 1799–1825: Colonel of the 2nd Madras Cavalry, 1824: General, 1854: commanded<section end="Russell, Sir James" />