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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1792 – 1878 · aged 86
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)
- Born
- 18 Aug 1792 · Mayfair
- Died
- 28 May 1878 · Pembroke Lodge
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 18 Aug 1792BornBorn in Mayfair
- 1813 – 1817RoleMember of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1818 – 1820RoleMember of the 6th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1820 – 1826RoleMember of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1826 – 1830RoleMember of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1830 – 1831RoleMember of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1831 – 1832RoleMember of the 10th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1832 – 1834RoleMember of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1834 – 1835RoleLeader of the Opposition
- 1835RoleMember of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1835 – 1839RoleHome Secretary
- 1835 – 1841RoleLeader of the House of Commons
- 1837 – 1841RoleMember of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1839 – 1841RoleSecretary of State for War and the Colonies
- 1841 – 1847RoleMember of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1841 – 1846RoleLeader of the Opposition
- 1846 – 1852RoleLeader of the House of Commons
- 1846 – 1852RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1847 – 1852RoleMember of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1852 – 1857RoleMember of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1852 – 1855RoleLeader of the House of Commons
- 1852RoleLeader of the Opposition
- 1854 – 1855RoleLord President of the Council
- 1855RoleSecretary of State for the Colonies
- 1857 – 1859RoleMember of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1859 – 1861RoleMember of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1859 – 1865RoleSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- 1859 – 1861RolePresident of the Royal Statistical Society
- 1863 – 1866RoleRector
- 1865 – 1866RoleLeader of the House of Lords
- 1865 – 1866RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1866 – 1868RoleLeader of the Opposition
- 28 May 1878DiedDied in Pembroke Lodge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1792 – 1878).
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was educated at Westminster School and Edinburgh University before entering Parliament in 1813. In 1828 he took a leading role in the repeal of the Test Acts which discriminated against Catholics and Protestant dissenters. He was one of the principal architects of the Reform Act 1832, which was the first major reform of Parliament since the Restoration, and a significant early step on the road to democracy and away from rule by the aristocracy and landed gentry. He favoured expanding the right to vote to the middle classes and enfranchising Britain's growing industrial towns and cities, but he never advocated universal suffrage and he opposed the secret ballot. Russell was outspoken on many issues over the course of his career, advocating Catholic emancipation in the 1820s, calling for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1845, denouncing Pope Pius IX's revival of Catholic bishoprics in 1850, and supporting Italian unification during the 1860s.
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