Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet (23 August 1828 – 7 March 1898) was a British barrister and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1898. Russell was the third son of

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and his wife Marie Clotilde Mottet de la Fontaine. He was educated at

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and

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. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1853 and went to the

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. In 1862 he became recorder of Wokingham. He was a County Court Judge of County Circuit No. 19 from 1866 to 1874, and of Circuit No. 49 from 1874 to February 1884. He succeeded his brother Charles as 4th baronet in 1883. In the 1885 general election, Russell was elected the Conservative

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(MP) for

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. He served until his death at the age of 69 in 1898. Russell was elected Chairman of the South Eastern Railway (SER) on 24 January 1895, and served in that post until his death on 7 March 1898, being replaced by Cosmo Bonsor. During Russell's short term as chairman, the SER began to work more closely with its rivals. The ''Railway Times'' remarked

Family

Russell married Constance Charlotte Lennox, daughter of

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in 1871. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son George. They lived at

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in Berkshire. Their children were: * Marie Clothilde Russell (died 1953), married

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, second son of

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* Sir George Arthur Charles Russell, 5th Bt. (1868–1944) * Sir Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell, 6th Bt. (1878–1964)

References

*''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition)

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* 1828 births 1898 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford 19th-century English judges Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 People from Swallowfield English barristers Members of Lincoln's Inn County Court judges (England and Wales) {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub