John Abraham Russell (6 November 1792 - 29 April 1865) was an

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. Russell was born in

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and educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

where he was a close friend of the poet

Charles Wolfe Charles Wolfe (14 December 1791 – 21 February 1823) was an Irish poet, chiefly remembered for "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" which achieved popularity in 19th century poetry anthologies. Family Born at Blackhall, County Kild ...

. Russell edited Wolfe's poems and sermons, which were published with a brief biography in 1826. He was

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from 1826 until his death.Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

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(Dublin, Ireland), Friday, May 5, 1865 He married Frances Story, who outlived him by many years, and had at least three sons and one daughter Geraldine, who married Heneage Horsley Jebb a descendant of Bishop

Samuel Horsley Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal So ...

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1792 births 1865 deaths Archdeacons of Clogher Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub