The son of John Russell (died 26 April 1802), rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire, and Ilmington, Warwickshire, he was educated at Charterhouse School, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 3 May 1803.
[1] In 1827 Russell was made a prebendary and afterwards canon residentiary of Canterbury Cathedral.
[1] Besides separate sermons and school books, Russell published The History of Sion College, London, 1859, and edited for the first time The Ephemerides of Isaac Casaubon, with a Latin preface and notes, 2 vols.
[1] By his wife, Mary Augusta Lloyd, a cousin of Charles Lloyd, Russell had four sons (John (died 1836), Francis, William, and Arthur (died 1828)), and two daughters: Augusta, wife of the Rev.
G. Bridges More; and Mary, wife of General William Nelson Hutchinson.