Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet

Lieutenant-General Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet (5 April 1822 – 19 March 1892),[1] was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in the suppression of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and then became a Liberal Party politician.

[4] Russell entered the army as a Cornet in 1841, became a Lieutenant in February 1846, a captain in April 1857, a Major in August 1857, a lieutenant-colonel in November 1858, and colonel in July 1863.

[4] In April 1854, Sir William of the 7th Hussars was appointed as Aide-de-Camp to the Earl of St Germans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

[4] He received a medal and clasp, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)[4] in 1859.

[4] They are buried at Highgate Cemetery Russell succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1839,[1] and on his death in 1892, aged 69, he was succeeded in the title by his own son William Russell (1865–1915),[1] on whose death the title became extinct.