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Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and his great-great 
grandfather was solicitor for the sale of the forfeited estates in 
Scotland after the Rebellion of 1715, and one of the original 
shareholders of the Bank of Scotland. On his mother’s side, Mr 
Russell was closely related to the ancient Scottish family of Murray 
of Polmaise, his mother having been the daughter of the late Mr 
Murray of Polmaise, and he was a great-grandson of Principal 
Robertson, the Scottish historian. He was for many years a director 
of the National Bank of Scotland and of the Standard Life Assurance 
Company, and for some time latterly solicitor to that Company. 
In politics he was a Conservative, but he did not take any active 
part in political life. Mr Russell was married — first, to Miss 
Magdalene Stein, daughter of the late Andrew Stein, Esq. of 
Wester-Greenyards, Fifeshire, and secondly, to Miss Elizabeth Anne 
Lancaster, daughter of the late Samuel Lancaster, Esq. of Hem- 
borough, Devon, who now survives him. He left also an only son, 
Colonel J. Cecil Russell, late of the 12th Lancers, and for some time 
an equerry to the Prince of Wales. 
