Official portrait of Lord Russell of Liverpool 2020 crop 2

Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 30 August 1952), is a British crossbench peer. The paternal grandson of

Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool CBE, MC (10 April 1895 – 8 April 1981), known as Langley Russell, was a British soldier, lawyer, historian and writer. Early life, family and education Russell was the son of R ...

, he was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

, and INSEAD. His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Sir Arthur Howard. Russell is also the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister

Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...

. Having lost his seat in the

House of Lords The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the Bicameralism, upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by Life peer, appointment, Hereditary peer, heredity or Lords Spiritual, official function. Like the ...

under the House of Lords Act 1999, he returned as an elected hereditary peer at a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

in December 2014. He sits as a

crossbencher A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and oppositi ...

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1952 births Living people People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge INSEAD alumni Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Crossbench hereditary peers {{UK-baron-stub Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999