Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen , GCMG , QC (born November 10, 1832 in Newry , † August 10, 1900 in London ) was a British statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales .

Life

Russell was born the eldest son of Arthur Russell and Margaret Mullin in Newry in what is now Northern Ireland . Charles Russell attended St. Malachy's College in Belfast , a private school in Newry and Castleknock College in Dublin .

After initially practicing as a lawyer in Dublin , he went to London in 1856 and was admitted as a barrister to Lincoln's Inn , one of the four bar associations in England . In 1872 he became crown attorney . In 1880 he was for the Liberal Party in the House of Commons voted. Catholic himself, he always campaigned for Irish Catholics and the Home Rule . He was knighted and reappointed Attorney General in 1886 by British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and again in 1892. The following year he successfully represented British interests in a dispute over fishing rights in the Bering Sea .

In 1894 Russell was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary , and later Lord Chief Justice of England . The former appointment was associated with the appointment as a Life Peer . In 1899 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Russell had ten children with his wife Ellen, including the later Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1867-1946), his son Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1908-1986) also Lord of Appeal in Ordinary was.

Web links

• The life of Lord Russell of Killowen by Richard Barry O'Brien. Biography (English).
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage

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• JC Mathew: 'Russell, Charles Arthur, Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900)', in: Sinéad Agnew (Ed.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 ( online ).