Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet

Who was Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet?

Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898.

Russell was the third son of Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet and his wife Marie Clotilde Mottet de la Fontaine. He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1853 and went the Oxford Circuit. In 1862 he became recorder of Wokingham. He was a County Court Judge of County Circuit No. 19 from 1866 to 1874, and of Circuit No. 49 from 1874 to February 1884. He succeeded his brother Charles as 4th baronet in 1883.

In the 1885 general election, Russell was elected the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wokingham. He served until his death at the age of 69 in 1898.