Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (14 June 1825 - 4 April 1892) was a British politician.

He was the second son of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Elizabeth Anne Rawdon, daughter of the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon, himself second son of the 1st Earl of Moira

John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

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, as well as younger brother to the 9th Duke of Bedford

Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford

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 and the 1st Baron Ampthill

Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill

Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill GCB GCMG PC , known as Lord Odo Russell between 1872 and 1881, was a British diplomat and ambassador and the first British ambassador to the German Empire. He was born in Florence in 1829 into the Russell family, one of England's leading Whig/liberal...

. Russell served as Private Secretary to his uncle, the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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 Lord John Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....

. Between 1857 and 1885, he sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Tavistock

Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

On 25 September 1865, Russell married Laura de Peyronnet, daughter of Paul Louis Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. They had six children, the diplomat Claud Russell, three other sons and two daughters. Russell died on 4 April 1892, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery

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, London.

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