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At Bal­liol, Rus­sell read Clas­sics. The fa­mous Greek scholar Ben­jamin Jowett was then Mas­ter of Bal­liol and also Vice-Chan­cel­lor of the Uni­ver­sity. Rus­sell found Ox­ford stim­u­lat­ing, wel­com­ing the “un­tram­melled and un­fet­tered dis­cus­sions on every­thing in heaven and earth”, but his Ox­ford ca­reer was cut dra­mat­i­cally short...

Frank Rus­sell was twice di­vorced, and sep­a­rated per­ma­nently from his third and last wife three years after they mar­ried. He also had ex­tra­mar­i­tal af­fairs. His first wife was Mabel Edith Scott, daugh­ter of "ad­ven­turess" Lady Selina (Lina) Scott and her hus­band Sir Claude Ed­ward Scott (1840-1880) of the Scott baronets of Lytchet Min­...

Rus­sell was an early mo­torist and an ac­tive mem­ber of the RAC and Motor Union. He was an out­spo­ken de­fender of mo­torists' rights. He is famed for hav­ing the reg­is­tra­tion A 1. This is fre­quently re­ported as being the first num­ber plate is­sued in Britain, but was most likely not – it was, how­ever, the first reg­is­tra­tion is­sued by...

After the pass­ing of the 1894 Local Gov­ern­ment Act, Rus­sell was elected to Cookham Parish and Dis­trict Coun­cils and be­came a Guardian of the Poor re­spon­si­ble for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of Maid­en­head work­house. In the same year he also be­came JP for Berk­shire. In 1895 he was elected onto Lon­don County Coun­cil as Pro­gres­sive Party ...

Rus­sell was chair­man of a num­ber of com­pa­nies, in­clud­ing Plenty & Son of New­bury, Hum­ber, and the Globe & Phoenix Min­ing Co. Rus­sell sup­ported his brother's paci­fism dur­ing the First World War, and was a close friend of George San­tayana and Li­onel John­son.

Ruth Derham. Bertrand's Brother: The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell.Amberley, Stroud, due Feb 2021.