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RUSSELL, CLAUD, son of Claud Russell, Binfield Manor House, Berks., EICS Madras, member of Council, Madras, and Leonora, natural dau. of George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (I) MP, EICS Madras, Governor of Madras; b. 7 May 1779; adm. 16 Jan 1793 (Clapham); Min. Can. 1793; Writer, EICS Bengal 26 Sep 1795; arrived in India 27 Feb 1797; Assistant to Persian Translator; Senior Assistant to Persian Secretary 1801; Secretary to Lieut. -Gov. in Ceded Districts 1802; Collector, Alighar 1804; Judge and Magistrate, Kanpur 1807; Second Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal, Benares 1817; m. 12 Mar 1810 Charlotte, third dau. of Robert Grant, EICS Bengal; d. at Benares 5 May 1817.

RUSSELL, BERTRAND, son of Peter Russell, and Hannah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 30 Apr 1747 (IGI); adm.; KS 1761; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. 1766; BA 1769; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Senior Fellow 1791; ordained priest (Peterborough) 19 Jul 1772; tutor to the sons of General Guy Carleton in Canada; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds.; Vicar of Gainford, co. Durham, from Jul 1791; m. 30 Jul 1795, Susanna (IGI), dau. of Rev. Michael Pope, Charterhouse Square, London; d. 29 Nov 1797.

Russell, Andrew Charles Finch, brother of Francis George Scott Russell (qv); b. 15 Feb. 1952; adm. Sept. 1965 (R); left Dec. 1969; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1970, BA 1973; founded a theatrical lighting co.; member of expedition to Nepal 1976-7; killed in a mountaineering accident in the Himalayas 1 May 1977.

RUSSELL, ---; b.; left Dec 1764. [Note Thomas Russell, son of William Russell, Worcester, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1764, BA 1768, MA 1772].

RUSSELL, ---, son of John Russell, HBM Consul at Lisbon; b.; at school in 1733 (M. E. Matcham, A forgotten John Russell, 1905, 38, 82-3).

RUSSELL, ---; b.; in school list 1731.

RUSSELL, ---; b.; in school lists 1729, 1731.

RUSSELL, ---; b.; in school lists 1728-33.

RUSSEL, SAMUEL; b.; adm. (aged 8) Mar 1722/3; in under school lists 1725-7, school list 1727/8.

RUSSEL, RICHARD, son of Rev. Richard Russel, Vicar of Alfriston and Selmeston, Sussex, subsequently non-juring clergyman and owner of a boarding house for the School, and Juliana Franckwell (IGI); bapt. Selmeston, Sussex 28 Dec 1714 (IGI); at school for eight years under Freind, and presumably the unnamed son of Rev. Richard Russel who was at the School in Jan 1728/9 (Hearne, Collections, x, p. 85); studied medicine in London and Paris; MD Rheims 7 Jan 1738; Physician to the branch of Christ’s Hospital at Ware, Herts.; medical practitioner successively at Henley, where he became involved in a professional dispute with Dr. Henry Addington, and at Reading, to where he moved in 1750; m. 4 Aug 1741 Elizabeth Wilkins (IGI); d. 25 Jul 1771. DNB.