Michael Russell (12 August 1781 – 2 April 1848) was the first Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway[1] from 1837 to his death in 1848.

[4] Russell was active on behalf of the bill passed in 1840 removing religious disabilities from Scottish episcopalians.

He was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana and the British Critic, and he was for some time editor of the Scottish Episcopal Review and Magazine.

To the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he contributed volumes on Palestine, 1831, Ancient and Modern Egypt, 1831, Nubia and Abyssinia, 1833, The Barbary States, 1835, Polynesia, 1842, and Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles, 1850.

[4] Besides sermons and charges, Russell was also the author of:[4] He published an edition of Robert Keith's Scottish Bishops (1824), and edited Archbishop John Spotiswood's History of the Church of Scotland for the Bannatyne Club and the Spottiswoode Society jointly (1847 and 1851).