John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846-1852 and 1865-1866 (1792-1878) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 85
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
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1878Died28 May 18781866Named Leader of the OppositionOffice28 June 1866 to 3 December 18681859Named Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth AffairsOffice18 June 1859 to 3 November 18651852Named Leader of the House of CommonsOffice28 December 1852 to 30 January 18551846Named Leader of the House of CommonsOffice30 June 1846 to 21 February 1852Named Prime Minister of the United KingdomOffice30 June 1846 to 23 February 18521841Named Leader of the OppositionOffice1 August 1841 to 1 June 18461835Named Home SecretaryOffice18 April 1835 to 30 August 1839Named Leader of the House of CommonsOffice18 April 1835 to 30 August 1841British General Election of 1835Candidate, The 1835 election brought the Conservative Party to power under Robert Peel and marked the emergence of modern party politics in Britain.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA25K Wikipedia readers in the past year
4 more1832British General ElectionCandidate, The first election following the Great Reform Act expanded the franchise and marked Britain's shift toward democratic representation, setting a precedent for parliamentary reform worldwide.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA31.5K Wikipedia readers in the past year
4 more1792Born18 August 1792
4 more1832British General ElectionCandidate, The first election following the Great Reform Act expanded the franchise and marked Britain's shift toward democratic representation, setting a precedent for parliamentary reform worldwide.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA31.5K Wikipedia readers in the past year4 more1792Born18 August 1792People around John
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Garter-encircled arms of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS
John Russell as a young MP
A pro-reform cartoon of 1831 depicting Russell as the man with the cure for the country's ills. Tory MPs for rotten and pocket boroughs are shown as patients requiring "The Russell Purge".
Russell served on the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition, which took place in 1851 while he was Prime Minister. In this group portrait of the Commissioners, by Henry Wyndham Phillips, Russell is depicted standing behind Prince Albert (fifth from right).
Portrait of Lord John Russell by Francis Grant, 1853
Russell's first wife Adelaide (1807-1838)
Russell's second wife Frances with their eldest son JohnAwards
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United Kingdom
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Politicians
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Politician
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Deceased
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Lived 1792 to 1878 · aged 85
