Charles William Cromwell Russell (14 May 1814 – 12 June 1859) was an English cricketer who played in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1836.
Russell was educated privately and at Gonville and Caius and Queens' College, Cambridge.
[2] His family claimed descent from Oliver Cromwell's youngest child, who married a Russell.
His single game of first-class cricket came in the 1836 season, when he opened the batting for the university side the match against Marylebone Cricket Club at Cambridge; he scored 21 and 11.
[1] Russell changed colleges at Cambridge University, but there is no record that he took a degree.