Russell (His Honour Judge), John Archibald, Q.C, LL.B. (hon.) Glasgow Univ. 1851, B.A. 1835, judge of county courts (circuit No. 8) since 1869, J.P. Lancashire, member of Council of Legal Education, member of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, an examiner to Inns of Court 186—, a life governor of Univ. Coll., London, professor of English law at that univ. 1864-9, solicitor-general co. palatine of Durham 1862-9, recorder of Bolton 1865-9, author of treatises On the Law of Contracts and On Mercantile Agency, a student of Gray's Inn 2 Nov., 1838, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1841, Q.C. 22 Feb., 1868, bencher 15 April, 1868, treasurer 1874 (3rd son of James Russell, Esq., of Rutherglen, near Glasgow); born 25 Nov., 1816; married 15 Sept., 1846, Martha, younger dau. of late Thomas Holme Bower, Esq., of Hale, Cheshire; she died 13 March, 1884.
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