Baron Charles Russell Russell of Killowen

Russell of Killowen, Charles Russell, Baron (kĭlō'ən), 1832-1900, British jurist, b. Ireland. He practiced law in Belfast and London before his election to Parliament as a Liberal in 1880. In the Commons he worked for the conciliation of Ireland, and he was the leading counsel for Charles Stewart Parnell before the Parnell Commission (1888-90). He served as William Gladstone's attorney general (1886, 1892-94) and in 1894 became lord chief justice, the first Roman Catholic to hold that office since the Reformation. Russell served as counsel (1893) in the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy and in 1899 was one of the Venezuela Boundary Arbitration Tribunal.

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See biography by R. B. O'Brien (1909).