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John Russell (También llamado Lord Russell; Londres, 1792 - Pembroke Lodge, Reino Unido, 1878) Político británico. Su padre, el duque de Bedford, desconfiaba de las universidades de Oxford y Cambridge, por lo que decidió mandarlo a la Universidad de Edimburgo.
Books. Lord John Russell: A Biography. Paul Scherer. Susquehanna University Press, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 427 pages. The first scholarly biography of Lord John Russell since John Prest, which was published in 1972, this work takes advantage of a great deal of documentation that was not available to Prest.
The third son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and known as Lord John Russell until 1861, Russell was briefly educated at Westminster School, then educated by tutors because of delicate health. He attended Edinburgh University and travelled in Europe before being elected as Whig M.P. for the borough of Tavistock, controlled by his family ...
1 de dic. de 2005 · F OR over a century after his death, Lord John Russell was remembered above all as a politician who failed to appreciate when it was time to get off the stage. He was widely agreed to have peaked at some point in the 1840s – Gladstone put it even earlier, at his leadership of the Commons in the 1830s 1 – perhaps when he became Prime Minister in 1846 on the wreck of the Peelite Conservative ...
Hace 3 días · Prime Minister and writer; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery As a Member of Parliament for the Whig party from 1813, Lord John Russell's efforts to reform Parliament contributed to the introduction of the Reform Act in 1832. Prime Minister 1846-52 and 1865-6, and Foreign Secretary 1859-65, he exemplified the Whig doctrines of civil rights, toleration of dissent and respect ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). Prime minister. A small, cocky man, with an abrasive and resilient personality, Russell was the third son of the duke of Bedford and was educated at Westminster and Edinburgh University. He entered Parliament in 1818, sitting for several constituencies until returned for the City of London in ...
Lord John Russell. Lord John Russell (also commonly referred to as ‘Earl Russell’ from 1861), served as Foreign Secretary in Lord Palmerston ’s Government during the American Civil War, making him the first contact for the United States Minister to London, Charles Francis Adams . Russell also met informally with Confederate emissaries ...
