William Russell (Durham MP)

William Russell (9 November 1798 – 30 January 1850)[1][2][3] of Brancepeth Castle in County Durham was a British Whig[4] politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1822 and 1832.

He was elected at a by-election in 1822 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for borough of Saltash in Cornwall.[4] He held that seat until the 1826 general election,[1] when he was returned as an MP for the borough of Bletchingley in Surrey.[2][5] He resigned the Bletchingley seat in 1827 (by taking the Chiltern Hundreds) to stand at a by-election for County Durham, where he was returned without a contest.[6] He held the Durham seat until the constituency was divided at the 1832 general election.[3]

He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1841.[7]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
  4. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 499. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  5. Stooks Smith, page 545
  6. Stooks Smith, page 99
  7. "No. 19948". The London Gazette. 5 February 1841. p. 304.


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