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Alexander James Russell WS FRSE (1814–1887) was a Scottish lawyer.
Life
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He was born at 101 George Street in Edinburgh on 21 June 1814, the son of John Russell FRSE Writer to the Signet.[1] He was apprenticed to his father as a lawyer and qualified as a Writer too the Signet in 1837.
By 1840 he appears as a Clerk to the Signet (CS) living at 9 Shandwick Place at the west end of Princes Street.[2] By 1850 he is in partnership with his father as "J & A J Russell CS".[3]
In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was James Thomson Gibson-Craig.[4]
By 1860 his father had retired and moved to the "south Bank" of Canaan Lane in the Morningside district.[5]
A few years after his father's death he went into business with James Nicolson to create the new firm of Russell & Nicolson at 11 George Street.[6] The firm later evolved into Russell & Dunlop.
He died at Shandwick Place in Edinburgh on 8 January 1887. He is buried in Dean Cemetery.[7]
Family
editHe was married twice: firstly in 1839 to Magdalene Stein (1820-1857) and secondly in 1861 to Elizabeth Anne Lancaster (1835-1903), twenty years his junior.
References
edit- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1814
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1840
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1850
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1860
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1870
- ^ "Alexander James Russell grave monument details at Dean 2g Cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland".
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