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  Sermon,’ &c., Cambridge, 1837, 8vo. 3. ‘Apology … translated from the … Latin of Bishop Jewell,’ &c. (with notes), 1834 ; 1839, 8vo; Oxford, 1840, 12mo. 4. ‘A Manual of Daily Prayer,’ &c., 1841, 8vo. 5. ‘Advent and other Sermons,’ &c. [1855], 12mo. 6. ‘A Letter to the Bishop of Oxford upon “Essays and Reviews,”’ &c., 1862, 8vo (in reply to an article in ‘Edinburgh Review,’ April, 1861, by Dean Stanley). 7. ‘Memorials of … Thomas Fuller,’ &c., 1844, 16mo. 8. ‘Memoirs of … Lancelot Andrewes,’ &c., 1863, 8vo. Among his contributions to reviews was a series of critical articles on the Greek Testament in the ‘British and Foreign Evangelical Review,’ 1862–3. He was one of the editors of a new edition of ‘Slatter's Old Oxford University Guide’ [1861?]. Among his manuscripts is an unpublished ‘History of the Bishops of England and Wales.’



RUSSELL, CHARLES (1826–1883), lieutenant-colonel, born on 22 June 1826, was the son of Sir Henry Russell (second baronet of Swallowfield), resident at Hyderabad, by his second wife, Marie Clotilde (d. 1872), daughter of Benoit Mottet de la Fontaine. Sir (1751–1836) [q. v.] was his grandfather. After education at Eton, he entered the army as ensign in the 35th foot on 25 Aug. 1843, became lieutenant on 9 June 1846, and served with that regiment in Mauritius. On 13 Sept. 1853 he became lieutenant and captain in the grenadier guards, to which he had exchanged in 1847. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 19 April 1852.

In 1854 he went to the Crimea with the third battalion, was at the battle of the Alma, and served through the siege of Sebastopol. During the latter part of it he was deputy assistant quartermaster-general to the first division. He received the medal with four clasps, the brevet rank of major (2 Nov. 1855), the legion of honour (knight), and the fifth class of the Medjidie and Turkish medal. When the Victoria Cross was instituted in February 1857, he was among the first recipients of it. The act for which the cross was awarded to him is described by Kinglake. During the battle of Inkerman he was in the sandbag battery with a mixed body of men, condemned to inaction by the height of the parapet. Some of them said, ‘If an officer will lead, we will follow,’ to which Russell responded ‘Follow me, my lads!’ and sprang out through an embrasure. Accompanied by one man only (private Anthony Palmer, who also received the cross), he attacked the Russians clustered outside, and, though of slight build, he wrested a rifle from the hands of a Russian soldier, and made his way along the ledge to another party of grenadiers.

He became captain and lieutenant-colonel on 23 April 1858, and retired from the army on 13 June 1868. On 4 July 1877 he was appointed honorary colonel of the 23rd Middlesex volunteers. He was a J.P. and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Berkshire. He sat as conservative M.P. for that county from July 1865 to November 1868, and for Westminster from 1874 to 1882.

He died at Swallowfield Park, near Reading, on 14 April 1883. He was unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother George.



RUSSELL, CHARLES WILLIAM (1812–1880), president of Maynooth College, born at Killough, co. Down, on 14 May 1812, was descended from the family of Russell, barons of Killough of Quoniamstown and Ballystrew. He was educated at Drogheda and at Downpatrick, and in 1826 entered Maynooth College. He became a Dunboyne student in 1832, and in 1835 was appointed professor of humanity. In 1842 Gregory XVI selected him for the new apostolic vicariate of Ceylon. In 1845 he was nominated to fill the newly established chair of ecclesiastical history at Maynooth, and in 1857, on the death of Dr. [q. v.], he became president of the college.

Russell exercised considerable influence on the tractarian movement in England. From the summer of 1841 he was a warm personal friend of Newman, who says of him: ‘My dear friend, Dr. Russell, president of Maynooth, had perhaps more to do with my conversion than any one else. Yet he was always gentle, mild, unobtrusive, uncontroversial’ (, Apologia, p. 194). His reputation stood high at Oxford, and the leaders of the party frequently applied to him for information on points arising in the tractarian controversy. He contributed several articles on the movement to the ‘Dublin Review,’ of which he was co-editor with Dr. Wiseman. 