Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet of Swallowfield

Sir Henry Russell, 1st Bt.

• Birth: 19 August 1751. (He was also reported to have been born on 8 August 1751)
• Parents: Michael Russell and Hannah Henshaw.
• Wife 1: Anne Skinner, daughter of John Skinner, on 1 August 1776.
• Wife 2: Anna Barbara Whitworth, daughter of Sir Charles Whitworth and Martha Shelley, on 23 July 1782.
• Death: 18 January 1836 at age 84.
• He lived Swallowfield (qv).
• He was Privy Counsellor (P.C.).2 Ch Justice Supreme Court Bengal.
• He gained the title of 1st Baronet Russell, of Swallowfield.
• He held the office of Lord Chief Justice of Bengal.

Children of Sir Henry Russell, 1st Bt. and Anna Barbara Whitworth

• Katherine Russell d. Sep 1845
• Caroline Russell d. 6 Mar 1869
• Henrietta Russell
• Rose Aylmer Russell
• Sir Henry Russell b. 27 May 1783, d. 19 Apr 1852
• Charles Russell b. 22 Jul 1786, d. 1856
• Francis Whitworth Russell b. 30 Jan 1790, d. 26 Mar 1852
• Whitworth Russell b. 17 Sep 1795, d. 2 Aug 1847
• George Lake Russell b. 19 Jun 1801, d. 16 Nov 1878

REF of above: The Peerage

• Name: Henry. Russell
• College: QUEENS'
• Entered: Michs. 1768
• Died: 18 Jan 1836

More Information: Adm. pens. at QUEENS', June 15, 1768. Of Kent. [3rd s. of Michael, of Dover (and Hannah, dau. of Henry Henshaw). B. Aug. 8, 1751, at Dover. School, Charterhouse.] Matric. Michs. 1768; Scholar, 1772; B.A. 1772; M.A. 1775. Fellow, 1773. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, June 20, 1768. Called to the Bar, July 7, 1783. A Commissioner in Bankruptcy, 1775. Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Judicature, Bengal, 1797-1807. Knighted, May 10, 1797. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1807-13. Russell Street, Calcutta was named after him. Created a Bart., Dec. 10, 1812. P.C., 1816. Married (1) Aug. 1, 1776, Anne, dau. of John Skinner, of Lydd, Kent (d. 1780); (2) July 23, 1782, Anne Barbara, 5th dau. of Sir Charles Whitworth, of Leybourne, Kent. Resided latterly at Swallowfield Park, Reading, where he died, Jan. 18, 1836. Father of George L. (1818) and Whitworth (1814). (Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.; Foster, Baronetage.)

REF: Original data: Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.

Privy Counsellor in 1816, during the reign of George III. The Russell baronetcy of Swallowfield in Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 December 1812 for him. Russell was the Chief Justice of Bengal.

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