John Russell (priest, born 1792)

John Abraham Russell (6 November 1792 - 29 April 1865) was an Irish Anglican priest.

[1] Russell was born in Limerick[2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin[3] where he was a close friend of the poet Charles Wolfe.

[4] Russell edited Wolfe's poems and sermons, which were published with a brief biography in 1826.

[7] He married Frances Story, who outlived him by many years, and had at least three sons and one daughter Geraldine, who married Heneage Horsley Jebb a descendant of Bishop Samuel Horsley.

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