John Russell D.D. (1787–1863) was an English clergyman and headmaster of

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Life

The son of John Russell (died 26 April 1802), rector of Helmdon,

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, and Ilmington,

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, he was educated at Charterhouse School, and matriculated at

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, on 3 May 1803. He graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1809, took holy orders in 1810, and was appointed headmaster of Charterhouse in 1811. The school became popular: in 1824 he had 480 boys under him, and among his pupils were

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, Sir Henry Havelock, and William Makepeace Thackeray, who alluded the school and Russell in his works. In 1827 Russell was made a prebendary and afterwards canon residentiary of

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. He resigned the head-mastership in 1832, on being presented to the rectory of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. He was president of Sion College in 1845 and 1846, and was treasurer of the

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, and an administrator of other societies. He held St. Botolph's rectory until his death, at the Oaks, Canterbury, on 3 June 1863. A Latin inscription to his memory, and that of two sons, was placed in the Charterhouse chapel.

Works

Besides separate sermons and school books, Russell published ''The History of Sion College'', London, 1859, and edited for the first time ''The Ephemerides'' of Isaac Casaubon, with a Latin preface and notes, 2 vols. Oxford, 1850.

Family

By his wife, Mary Augusta Lloyd, a cousin of Charles Lloyd, Russell had four sons (John (died 1836), Francis, William, and Arthur (died 1828)), and two daughters: Augusta, wife of the Rev. G. Bridges More; and Mary, wife of General

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, John 1787 births 1863 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Headmasters of Charterhouse School