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Up for sale "1st Baron Russell of Liverpool" Edward Russell Hand Written Note on 3X5 Card Twice Signed Dated 1883.
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Edward Richard Russell, 1st Baron Russell
of Liverpool (9
August 1834 – 20 February 1920), was a British journalist and Liberal politician. Russell
was a newspaper man who also involved himself in politics. Born in London, he was largely self-made, rising to become Editor of
the Liverpool Daily Post,
a position he held for almost fifty years. He is reputed to have been a man of
great ability, with high religious and moral standards. Well-travelled, an
advocate of Temperance, and regarded as able public speaker, he supported
the Liberal Party and was
a founder of the Liverpool Parliamentary Debating Society. He corresponded with
leading figures of the day, for example Annie Besant and H. H. Asquith. In 1865 he left Liverpool for London where he
worked for the Morning Star and
other newspapers. In writing parliamentary reports, he came to know members of
government and was a friend of William Ewart Gladstone. When
Russell returned to Liverpool in 1869, it was as editor of the Daily
Post, which, under his leadership, became known as a leading provincial
newspaper. From 1885 to 1887 Russell was Liberal MP for the then in 1893 he was knighted. In 1919, the year before
his death, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Russell of Liverpool,
of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
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