Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, QC ( born November 10, 1832 in Newry; † August 10, 1900 ) was a British statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.

Life

Russell was born as the eldest son of Arthur Russell and Margaret Mullin in Newry in Northern Ireland today. Charles Russell visited the St. Malachy 's College, Belfast, a private school in Newry and Castleknock College in Dublin.

Initially he practiced as a lawyer in Dublin, he went to London in 1856 and was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn, one of the four bar associations in England as a barrister. In 1872 he became Attorney-General. In 1880 he was elected for the Liberal party in the House of Commons. Even Catholic, he sat down, always supporting the deer Catholics and the Home Rule. He was knighted in 1886 by British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and 1892 re-appointed to the Attorney General. The following year he successfully represented British interests in a dispute over fishing rights in the Bering Sea.

In 1894, Russell was initially a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and later to the Lord Chief Justice of England appointed. The former appointment was connected with the appointment to the Life Peer. He had with his wife Ellen ten children, including the later Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1867-1946), whose son Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1908-1986) also Lord of Appeal in Ordinary was.