Russell Gurney, FRS (2 September 1804 – 31 May 1878)[1] was an English lawyer and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1878.

He was educated at Dunham Norfolk under Mr Jowett and at Trinity College, Cambridge[2] and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, of which became a bencher in November 1828.

He occasionally acted as Judge of Assize, and went the Western, Oxford, Northern, and North Wales circuits.

He was a Commissioner of the Jamaica Rebellion inquiry and was sworn a member of the Privy Council in 1866, in recognition of his services.

[8] Gurney married Emelia Batten (born 26 July 1823, died 1896), daughter of Rev.