Sir Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell, 6th Baronet (30 November 1878 – 24 February 1964[1]) was a British mineralogist.
He was born in Swallowfield Park, near Reading, in Berkshire, the son of Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet and Lady Constance Charlotte Elisa Lennox.
He was appointed a Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1920 and succeeded as 6th Baronet upon the death of his older brother in 1944.
Among the more important were the collections of Philip Rashleigh (1728–1811), Lady Elizabeth Coxe Hippisley (1760–1843), John Hawkins (1761–1841), John Hamrease (1764–1811), George Croker Fox (1784–1850),[2] Edmund Pearse (1788–1856), Robert Were Fox (1789–1877),[2] Isaac Walker (1790–1853), Alfred Fox (1794–1874),[2] Sir Maziere Brady (1796–1871), Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth (1817–1890), John Ruskin (1819–1900), Col. R. B. Rimington (1828–1910), Arthur Champernowne (1839–1887), J. H. Collins (1841–1916), W. Semmons (1841–1915) and Samuel Henson (1848–1930).
The Russell Collection at Swallowfield Park became famous throughout the world and was visited by mineralogists and collectors from across Europe and America.