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Charles Arthur Russell was born on November 10, 1832 at Newry, County Down, Ireland. He was the elder son of Arthur Russell, a Roman Catholic gentleman, who was engaged in commerce and brewing in Newry.
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Charles Arthur Russell
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Baron Russell of Killowen
Education
Educated first at Belfast, afterwards in Newry, and finally at St Vincent's College, Castleknock, Dublin, in 1849, he was articled to a firm of selicitors in Newry. He became a student of Trinity College, Dublin. He matriculated there in 1855, and passed examinations from time to time, but did not wait to become a graduate. In 1856 he went to London and became a student of Lincoln's Inn.
Career
Russell practiced law in Ireland from 1854 and in England (usually at Liverpool) from 1859. In 1872 he was appointed a queen’s counsel. A Liberal Party member of the House of Commons from 1880 to 1894, he served as attorney general under Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1886 and again in 1892–94. Although he was sympathetic to Irish nationalism, he urged the establishment of an Irish Parliament subordinate to England’s, rather than the granting of Home Rule, which would have given the Irish wider power. In 1888–90 he gained fame as principal defense counsel before the Parnell Commission by discrediting much of the testimony against the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, especially that based on a letter forged by a journalist, Richard Pigott.
Created a lord of appeal in May 1894, Russell then was appointed lord chief justice of England on the death of John Duke, Baron Coleridge (June 14, 1894). His reputation as a great judge was secured by his conduct of the trial of L. S. Jameson and other British subjects who had abortively invaded the Boer state of the Transvaal (December 1895–January 1896). In 1899 he participated in the successful arbitration of the Venezuela–British Guiana boundary dispute that had threatened to lead to war between Great Britain and the United States.
Achievements
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A formidable courtroom advocate, he became widely admired as a strong but moderate judge.
He served as attorney general under Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1886 and again in 1892–94.
His reputation as a great judge was secured by his conduct of the trial of L. S. Jameson and other British subjects who had abortively invaded the Boer state of the Transvaal (December 1895–January 1896).
In 1899 he participated in the successful arbitration of the Venezuela–British Guiana boundary dispute that had threatened to lead to war between Great Britain and the United States.
He was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Grand Cross.
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New Views on Ireland, or Irish Land; Grievances, Remedies
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Diary of a Visit to the United States of America in the Year 1883
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The Parnell Commission: The Opening Speech for the Defence (1889 )
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New Views on Ireland, or Irish Land; Grievances, Remedies
Politics
Before 1886 on several occasions he supported the action of the Irish Nationalist party. He opposed coercion, voted for compensation for disturbance, advocated the release of political prisoners and voted for the Maamtrasna inquiry.
Personality
A well-built frame; a strong, striking face, with broad forehead, keen grey eyes, and a full and sensitive mouth; a voice which, though not musical, was rich, and responded well to strong emotions, whether of indignation, or scorn, or pity; an amazing power of concentrating thought; an intellectual grasp, promptly seizing the real points of the most entangled case, and rejecting all that was secondary, or petty, or irrelevant; a faculty of lucid and forcible expression, which, without literary ornateness or grace of style, could on fit occasions rise to impassioned eloquence-all these things Russell had. But beyond and above all these was his immense personality, an embodiment of energetic will which riveted attention, dominated his audience, and bore down opposition.
Connections
In 1858 he married, in Belfast, Ellen, the eldest daughter of Dr Mulholland, a physician of distinction in that city.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Liberal