... Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, afterwards providing a home for the Queen Dowager Adelaide. On July 26, 1850, Lord John Russell, as Prime Minister, read a message from the Crown in the House of Commons. Her Majesty, being desirous that the mansion ...

... tralian million- a i r e, is now the for tunate owner of the delightful house in Ches- ham Place once occupied by Lord John Russell. Lady Portarlington shares her husband's love of Ireland and of sport she has made herself very popular in the neighbourhood ...

... great ladies of the Victorian era, among Lady Lansdowne's predecessors having been Lady Palmerston, Lady Granville, Lady John Russell, and Lady Salisbury. As regards the latter lamented lady, however, the tact that the noble Marquis combined the office ...

... The other was a man to whom Lord John Russell gave a sovereign in mistake for a shilling. Next night he men tioned the matter to the man, who admitted having received the coin. What have you done with it? asked Lord John. Bought a new pair of boots with ...

... Chamberlain, though in his seventieth year, appears as young for his age as Gladstone was. It was different when Lord John Russell, at acvciiLy-aiA, was still struggling for the lead which he knew he must relin quish to Glad stone. The movement of the ...

... occasion, but morning dress The late Lord Salisbury turned up at Court wearing parts of a dozen different uniforms, while Lord John Russell, going the whole hog of Sartorial sinning, appeared at a State Concert at Buckingham Palace arrayed in Levee uniform instead ...

... than when Lord Melbourne, opening his paper at breakfast, used to grumble, D it 1 Another Bishop dead, and write to Lord John Russell denouncing that devil of a Bishop, by whom he meant Dr. Philpotts. But he was not the only giant of his age who employed ...

... THE BOILER OF THE STEAM CARRIAGE BUILT BY JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL, ON JULY 29, 1834. It will be seen that the motor-car disaster is as old an institution as the motor-car itself. The destruction of John Scott Russell's invention was not due, however, to the ...

... say to the question under discussion. M h 1 r Few tadies have seen their personality more 1 a Russe/'l discussed of late years than Mabel, Countess Russell. By a curious irony of fate, she bears the title which was held for half a century by the remarkable ...

... of Argyll. He had not completed his thirtieth year when he sat in Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet with [.ord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. His experience of Cabinets not only began but concluded early. lie was only fifty-eight when he resigned office in 1881 ...

... many parts, with solid success in each, that the old taunt as to taking command of the Channel Fleet, levelled at Lord John Russell and other versatile and self-confident statesmen, would seem to have partly lost its sting. Thirty years ago, Sir James ...

... marvellous career. The daughter of a Duke that Duke of Bedford who had so many remarkable children, including the late Lord John (Earl) Russell she married at the age of twenty, five years before the late Sovereign s accession, the Marquis, later Duke, of Abercorn ...