Russell, Lord John, (1792-1878), 1st Earl Russell, statesman

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Surname:	Russell
Pretitle:	Lord
Forenames:	John
Gender:	Male
Date:	1792-1878
Title:	1st Earl Russell
Biography:	ODNB link for Russell, Lord John (1792-1878) 1st Earl Russell, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275425 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P164075 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Lord John Russell

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1800-1913: Lord John Russell: Papers	The National Archives, Kew	PRO 30/22
2	1848 Nov 29: LORD JOHN RUSSELL: A memorial to Lord John Russell by the Venerable W B Mant Archdeacon...	The National Archives, Kew	TS 25/414
3	1804-78: official and general corresp and papers	The National Archives	PRO30/22	See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
4	c1834-66: letters from Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Lord Melbourne	Royal Archives		See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
5	1819-60: literary papers and misc corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38080, 47598-601
6	1836-1863: misc corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9708-9870, 10290, 10695-10780 Passim
7	1852-68: letters (35) mainly from Viscount Amberley and Mrs T Moore 1849: diary	McMaster University Library	Russell Archives	NRA 12092
8	1847-51: letter-book; c1809-73: misc letters and notes (13 items)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng lett d 269, 307; Don d 137
9	misc literary and political papers (2 vols, 1 box)	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS OGDEN 83-85	See Manuscript collections 1978
10	1808-66: corresp and papers (4 vols)	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library	Russell papers	See Guide 1978 p118
11	1817-74: political letters and memoranda (148 items)	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	18G	NRA 22505 Russell
12	1837-64: letters (100) (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP2342
13	1830-59: corresp with Lord Aberdeen	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43066-68
14	1840-52: letters to Sir TD Acland	Surrey History Centre	256	NRA 14087 Selwyn
15	1841: letters to 1st Marquess of Anglesey	Collection held privately: enquiries to Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections		NRA 10 Paget
16	1854-67: letters to Dukes of Bedford	Bedford Estates	HMC	NRA 26179 Russell
17	1865-66: corresp (c43 items) with Speaker Brand	Parliamentary Archives	BRA	NRA 6114
18	corresp with Lord Brougham	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	BROUGHAM BL, HB	See Irwin and Staveley, Libraries of London
19	1814-67: letters to Lord Broughton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 47226-29
20	1861-64: corresp with Sir Andrew Buchanan	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Bu	NRA 8677 Buchanan
21	corresp with Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer	Norfolk Record Office	BUL	NRA 6790 Bulwer
22	1835-41: corresp with Thomas Buxton	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Brit Emp s 444	NRA 24097 Buxton
23	1855: corresp with Stratford Canning	The National Archives	FO 352
24	1836-72: corresp (105 items) with Sir E Chadwick	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
25	1843-64: letters to 1st Marquess of Clanricarde	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds		NRA 16182 De Burgh
26	1840-70: letters to 4th Earl of Clarendon	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Clar dep	NRA 6302
27	1839: corresp with Lord Clive	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Powis Castle	NRA 20151 Herbert
28	1846-63: corresp with Richard Cobden	West Sussex Record Office	Cobden papers	NRA 10616 Cobden
29	1852-66: corresp with 1st Earl Cowley	The National Archives	FO 519
30	1859-63: corresp with Sir John Fiennes Crampton	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Crampton	NRA 28051 Crampton
31	1835-65: corresp with 11th Earl of Dalhousie	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD45	NRA 17164 See NRA(S)0805
32	1836-71: letters (16) to JE Denison	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Os	NRA 205 Denison
33	1832-52, 1867: letters to 14th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 130	NRA 20084
34	1816-75: letters to Dukes of Devonshire	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth	/16	NRA 20594 Cavendish
35	1851-74: letters (19) to Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
36	c1819-59: letters to Dormer family	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 895	NRA 11084 Dormer
37	1860-62: corresp with Lord Dufferin	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1071	NRA 5700 Blackwood
38	1822-1840: corresp with 1st Earl of Durham	Durham University Library and Collections	JGL (boxes 20, 22)	NRA 11184 Lambton
39	letters to Lord Elgin and draft despatches from him	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS3955/76/3/1-5	NRA 26223 Bruce
40	1836-63: letters (85) to Edward Ellice sen	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 15052	NRA 883 See NRA(S)1968
41	1824-61: corresp with 2nd Earl Fortescue	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	1262M 1262Madd 1262Madd2,3,4,5,7,6M	NRA 6304 Fortescue
42	1860-62: corresp with AJ Fraser	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44912-13
43	1849-76: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 44291-94
44	1834-70: corresp with George Gleig	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3870-71
45	1830-61: corresp with Sir James Graham	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Dep. 9374	NRA 2634 Graham See Annual Return 1994
46	corresp (78 items) with 2nd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
47	1832-73: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	GRE/B122-B123	NRA 6228 Grey
48	1852-67: corresp with Hon Charles Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
49	1844-75: corresp with 1st Viscount Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers A4	NRA 8128 Wood
50	1859-66: letters to 1st Baron Hammond	The National Archives	FO 391
51	c1854-78: letters to 1st Baron Hammond	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 566 Hammond See HMC corresp file - Hammond
52	1863-74: letters to Sir William Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
53	1815-75: letters to Lord and Lady Harrowby	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust	vols 17-18,28,33,38-40,51,53,64,104,1055,1057,1068	NRA 1561 Ryder
54	letters to 1st Baron Hatherton	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D260, 1121, 1178, 4028, 4513, 4787	NRA 4022 Littleton See NRA(S)0044
55	corresp with Sidney and Elizabeth Herbert	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2057	NRA 22080 Herbert
56	1809-40: corresp with 3rd Baron and Lady Holland	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 51677-80
57	1840-58: corresp with 4th Baron Holland	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 52006
58	1847-76: letters (15) to Lord Houghton	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library		See HMC corresp file 19/2/1987
59	1834-46: corresp with William Howley	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 1812
60	1839-61: letters to Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	JKS	NRA 10755 Kay-Shuttleworth
61	1846-47: notes (10) to George Keppel	Suffolk Archives - Ipswich	267	NRA 4050 Keppel
62	1853-71: corresp with Lord Kimberley	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97	NRA 1274 Wodehouse
63	1853-71: corresp with Sir Austen Layard	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38959-39118 passim
64	1839-56: corresp with Sir George Cornewall Lewis	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Harpton Court	NRA 22798 Duff Gordon
65	1859-65: letters (63) from David Livingstone	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Clendennen & Cunningham, David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents, 1979
66	corresp with 1st Baron Lytton	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	DE/K	NRA 4598
67	letters to 1st Earl of Lytton	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	DE/K	NRA 4598
68	c1818-26: letters to 5th Duke of Manchester	Huntingdonshire Archives	DDM	NRA 902 Montagu
69	1834-43: corresp with Lord Melbourne	University of Southampton Library	HMC	NRA 25759 Lamb
70	1835-76: letters to Minto family	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 11774-75, 12259	NRA 10476 Minto
71	1863-1867: corresp with Sir Robert Morier	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 26599 Morier
72	1860: letters to Sir Charles Augustus Murray	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD261	NRA 14153 See NRA(S)0485
73	1859-64: letters (38) to 5th Duke of Newcastle	Gladstone's Library	Glynne-Gladstone MSS 2976	NRA 14174 Gladstone
74	1810-62: corresp with 5th Duke of Newcastle and others	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
75	1832-65: corresp with Lord Palmerston	University of Southampton Library	MS 62	NRA 12889
76	1830-50: corresp with Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40400-603
77	1832-62: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Phillipps-Robinson	NRA 26260
78	1831-51: letters (105) to 5th Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
79	1871-74: letters (22) to 6th Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
80	1863-67: corresp with 1st Marquess of Ripon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43512
81	letters to Lord George William Russell	Bedford Estates	HMC	NRA 26179 Russell
82	1858-75: corresp with Odo Russell	The National Archives	FO 918
83	1838-54: letters to Sir Andrew Rutherfurd	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 9705
84	1865-72: corresp with Lord Selborne	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 1862-65 passim	NRA 11918
85	1850-52: corresp with Lord Seymour	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	10	NRA 24077
86	letters to EJ Shirley	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 7573 Shirley
87	1836-63: corresp with John Abel Smith and Sir James Brooke	West Sussex Record Office	ADD MSS/22,243 - 22,643	NRA 25734
88	1828-42: letters (14) to Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	SDUK	NRA 22241 SDUK
89	1859-65: letters (141) to 12th Duke of Somerset	Buckinghamshire Archives	D-RA	NRA 11704 Ramsden
90	1837-74: letters to Lord Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C357	NRA 25095
91	1875: letters to Lord Stanmore	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 49272	NRA 20961
92	1853: corresp with 1st Baron Strathnairn	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 42799
93	1850-75: corresp with AC Tait	Lambeth Palace Library	Tait	NRA 8476 Tait
94	1835: corresp with William Tapley	Kent History and Library Centre	U1515	NRA 17144
95	1835-52: letters to Duke of Wellington	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085
96	1847-51: corresp with Samuel Wilberforce	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Wilberforce; Don e 164-65	NRA 7132 Wilberforce
97	1854-60: corresp with Charles Wood	British Library, Manuscript Collections	ADD MSS 49531 Passim
98	1832-37: letters from William IV and Sir Herbert Taylor	University of Southampton Library	MS 62	NRA 12889
99	1830-68: letters (12)	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
100	letters	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Accessions to Repositories 1966
101	1832-33: letters received	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 63010

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Russell, Frances Anna Maria, (1815-1898), 2nd wife of Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell	wife/husband		Family