Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (13 June 1825 – 4 April 1892) was a British Liberal Party politician.

He was the second of three sons of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Elizabeth Anne Rawdon.

[3] From 1849 to 1854 he was private Secretary to his uncle, the Liberal Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

[3] The ideological gulf between Britain and the new German Empire was stressed by Lord Arthur Russell in 1872: "Prussia now represents all that is most antagonistic to the liberal and democratic ideas of the age; military despotism, the rule of the sword, contempt for sentimental talk, indifference to human suffering, imprisonment of independent opinion, transfer by force of unwilling populations to a hateful yoke, disregard of European opinion, total want of greatness and generosity, etc., etc.

[7] He was raised to the rank of a Duke's son on 25 June 1872 and was then known as Lord Arthur Russell.