Background
He was born in Swallowfield Park, near Reading, in Berkshire, the son of Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet and Lady Constance Charlotte Elisa Lennox.
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Arthur Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell
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He was educated at Eton College and studied chemistry at King"s College London.
Career
He was a collector and a collector of collections. He served in France during World War I and was invalided home in 1915. In his lifetime he amassed a huge collection of minerals.
Among the more important were the collections of Philip Rashleigh (1728–1811), Lady Elizabeth Coxe Hippisley (1760–1843), John Hawkins (1761–1841), John Hamrease (1764–1811), George Croker Fox (1784–1850), Edmund Pearse (1788–1856), Robert Were Fox (1789–1877), Isaac Walker (1790–1853), Alfred Fox (1794–1874), Sir Maziere Brady (1796–1871), Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth (1817–1890), John Ruskin (1819–1900), Colonel
R. B. Rimington (1828–1910), Arthur Champernowne (1839–1887), J. H. Collins (1841–1916), West. Semmons (1841–1915) and Samuel Henson (1848–1930). The collection of about 12,000 of the finest British minerals is now in the Mineralogical Collection of the Natural History Museum.
Achievements
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President of the British Mineralogical Society from 1939 to 1942. Bolitho Medal from Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1948. Henwood Medal from the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1953. Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Oxford in 1956. He described and named the new species rashleighite. Was honoured by the naming of the minerals russellite and arthurite. The Russell Society for amateur and professional mineralogists is named in his honour.
Membership
Royal Society.
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British