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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
John Russell (colonial administrator) (1670–1735), administrator of the English East India Company; John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710–1771), British statesman; John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839), Knight of the Garter; John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, British prime minister
Quartered arms of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford as seen on his Garter stall plate.Quarterly of four: 1st grand quarter: Russell quartering Azure, a tower argent (de la Tour); 2: Gules, three herrings hauriant argent (Herringham); 3: Sable, a griffin segreant between three cross crosslets argent (Froxmere); 4: Sable, three chevronels ermine with a crescent for difference (Wyse)
Lord John Russell: 30 June 1846 – 21 February 1852: The Government resigned 22 February 1851 and resumed 3 March 1851 Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Charles Wood, Bt:
The 1851 vote of no confidence in the government of Lord John Russell occurred in February 1851 when a motion of enfranchisement was carried in the House of Commons against the government's will. [19] Lord John Russell became Prime Minister in June 1846. During Russell's premiership, the Whig Party only formed a minority in the House of Commons.
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, KG, PC, FSA (6 July 1766 – 20 October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a British Whig politician who notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents. He was the father of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. [1]
After the fall of the second of Lord Derby's short-lived attempts at governments in 1859, Palmerston returned to power, this time in alliance with his former rival, the Earl Russell, in what is regarded as the first Liberal government. Palmerston remained as Prime Minister until his death in 1865, when Russell succeeded him.
Lord Amberley consented to his wife's affair with their children's tutor, [21] [22] the biologist Douglas Spalding. Both were early advocates of birth control at a time when this was considered scandalous. [23] Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather. [24]