OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 11

OBITUARY.

LORD RUSSELL. (BBWISB OFFJCU.II KUQBY, 4 March 4. " Lord Euesell died suddenly at Marseilles figcd 66 years. He had been recuperating in the south of France after his recent illness, and was ah out to return whon ho was overcome by a fatal attack. ..... Lord Busseli was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to. the Ministry for Transport in the Labour Government: of 1929. Later in the same year ho succeeded Dr. Drummond Shiels as UnderSecretary at the India Office. ijifl brother, Bertrand Eussell, the famous mathematician and author of many philosophical works, succeeds to the peerage.

Jojin Francis Stanley Russell, "barrister, electrical engineer and Socialist, was born in August, 1865, and was | educated at Winchester and fiallial Colleges, Oxford. His rather, Jxjrd Am- , berley, having died in 1876, he sue-1 ceeded in 1878 to the I&rldon* W the death of his grandfather the, first earl, tho famous Liberal statesman, who, as Lord John Russel}, introduced the Jse- | form Bill of 1832. Lord Russell proved { to be one of the most unconventional of peers. His ability promised fi brilliant career, but even in boyhood Jj© i showed signs of a temperament which ] set him at perpetual warfare with th© orthodox. When at Winchester h® one ] day horrified the masters by walking out of chapel because the Athanasian Creed was recited. After leaving Oxford he qualified as a barrister and also asan electrical engineer, running a business at Maidenhead. In 1895 he was elected to the .London County Council and during his nine years on it distinguished himself by the independent lino he took on social qnes-: tiops. gopialism attracted him, and $ few years later he joined the Fabian .j Society and came out openly as' a- ■ Socialist. He was p. strpng advocate of the suffrage for women 'in the early | days of tpe movement, holding, v. that women should be freed from every form i of artificial disability. , - I It is probable, however, tha£ Russell will he chiefly remembered for I his matrimonial oowplicatiops. In 1901 ho was the defendant in a famous trial bv the House of Lords. In 1890 I he h»4 iflarripd a daughter of ■ Sir ; Claude Soptt. Thc.nl&rriag?. Ws up- | happy, his wife making certain charges i against him. These lie denied, and, 3S she repeated them, he held that he was entitled to a divorce-. on i. tbe lpgal. ground of "cruelty." To emphasise this view lie went to the United State? ' and got a' divorce. He then, in *lOOl, I married Mrf Soi^rYille-. On .pis re- | turn to g]and he wp.s accused o» , higaniy, and claiming the privilege of' a peer, was tried by th©. IJousc of Lords. Tho result Wjw" ft sentfiflpQ « "six months' ipinr hut, £ par<don quickly foltpweq- Both mam&gps wore afterwards dissolved. -In 191S h® married -the Countess-von Arnim, iQT-, merly Miss May Heanehwpi the* thor .of "EHzahe|h ffe r , Garden,'' imq.HWW ot %r \ Labqqr pflwe mtp, mFer, W J u J e > ip*P» he was madg to the Mimitry of hp? 3 , Hussell, who was »fi 'K?* volume pf <r Pay Sermons., tn }Ol3 >be ■ published "Divprce, 1 ? which he,demanfied far tN»^-2fv^ tn £ xnonial capep. apd tpe 4K?3)?r™ marriage ]j>y in -1®39 »e hip roruimscences. - k >

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