Flora Magdalen Isabel Russell (28 September 1869 – 23 August 1967) was an English noblewoman, childhood friend of Gertrude Bell.
They lived at 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, and their house were frequented by well-known figures like Leslie Stephen and his daughters, Virginia and Vanessa; Mrs Humphry Ward; Henry James and John Singer Sargent; Vera Brittain.
[7] Having many relatives in the diplomatic corps around the world, while she was travelling she was a guest of the British embassies instead of lodging at hotels.
[2] In 1921 Flora Russell sold for £22,500 (£1,260,856 in 2023 sterling) the townhouse at 2 Audley Square she had inherited from her father to the University Women's Club, which is still housed there.
[2] In 1965 Gimson and Eustace recorded Flora Russell, at the time 96 years old, whose speech they regard as a "good example of a certain kind of Victorian English".