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3 unusual facts about Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen


Baron Russell of Killowen

Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1867–1946), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and father of Charles Ritchie Russell

Frank Russell

Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1867–1946), British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and law lord

Russell baronets

He was the second son of Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, the elder brother of Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, and the uncle of Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen.


Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1832–1900), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and father of Frank Russell

Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell

Russell supported his brother's pacifism during the First World War I, and was a close friend of George Santayana.

Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury

This is the only example of three generations gaining life peerages under the 1958 Life Peerages Act (the three judges Baron Russell of Killowen were created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act of 1876).


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