Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

The Right Honourable The Lord Russell of Killowen GCMG PC DL
Portrait of Sir Charles Russell by John Singer Sargent, 1900
3rd Lord Chief Justice of England
In office 11 July 1894 – 10 August 1900
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Lord Coleridge
Succeeded by	The Viscount Alverstone
Attorney General for England
In office 20 August 1892 – 3 May 1894
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebury
Preceded by	Sir Richard Webster
Succeeded by	Sir John Rigby
In office 9 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	Sir Richard Webster
Succeeded by	Sir Richard Webster
Member of Parliament for Dundalk
In office 2 April 1880 – 1885
Preceded by	Philip Callan
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Hackney South
In office 1885 – 10 July 1894
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	John Fletcher Moulton
Personal details
Born	Charles Arthur Russell 10 November 1832 Newry, County Down Ireland
Died	10 August 1900(1900-08-10) (aged 67) Westminster, London England
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Ellen Mulholland (1858–1900)
Children	Frank Russell 4 other sons 4 daughters
Alma mater	St. Malachy's College Castleknock College
Occupation	Solicitor, Barrister, Judge
Religion	Roman Catholic

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, QC, DL (10 November 1832 – 10 August 1900) was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England.

Russell was the elder son of Arthur Russell of Killowen, County Down, and Margaret Mullin of Belfast, born at 50 Queen Street (now Dominic Street) in Newry, County Down. The family was in moderate circumstances, their ancestors having suffered much for the Roman Catholic faith in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Arthur Russell having died in 1845, the care of his large family devolved upon their talented mother and their paternal uncle, the celebrated Dr. Russell of Maynooth. Charles was one of five children, his three sisters all becoming nuns and his brother was ordained as a Jesuit priest. He studied at the diocesan seminary, St Malachy's College, Belfast, at a private school in Newry, and Castleknock College, in Castleknock, Dublin. He then entered the law offices of Messrs Denvir, Newry, in 1849, and of O'Rourke, McDonald & Tweed, Belfast, in 1852. Admitted a solicitor in 1854, he practised in the county courts of Down and Antrim, and became at once the champion of the Catholics who had resisted organised attempts at proselytising by Protestants in these counties.