1150079

Portrait of Sir (Edward) John Russell OBE, #1150079

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Portrait of Sir  (Edward) John Russell OBE, #1150079
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Russell, Sir (Edward) John 1872-1965, agriculturalist, was born 31 October 1872 in Frampton on Severn, the eldest of the nine children of Edward Thomas Russell and his wife, Clara Angel, daughter of Captain Samuel Hallet. His maternal grandfather owned barges and had a wharf in Lambeth; his paternal grandfather was in the coal business. His father was initially a schoolmaster with an independence of judgement that led to frequent conflict with his employers and to consequent changes of employment. Disagreement with the managers of his school, and with the conservatism of Gloucestershire farmers, caused a move to Nether Hallam, near Sheffield. Because the school authorities there refused him leave to attend a course by T. H. Huxley [q.v.] in South Kensington, he went to Lee Common, near Tring, but soon disagreed with authority over the enclosure of common land and left for a lay appointment at a Unitarian church in Leicester. By this time Russell was six; he was sent to stay with an aunt in London for a time to escape an epidemic of scarlet fever in Leicester. In 1882 his father moved to another lay appointment at a Domestic Mission in Birmingham. The deaths of two of his children, and the wish for a larger salary, were the cause of that move.Perhaps because of the varied educational experience that resulted from these moves from town to town, and from several changes of school within a town when his father became dissatisfied with the teaching, Russell made excellent academic ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good overall condition, no frame.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1950</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:United Kingdom</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Alfred Egerton Cooper, RBA (1883-1974)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Sir (Edward) John Russell OBE,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Modern British</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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