RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD g ( ,1_21-1907), English war correspondent, was born at Lilyvale, near Tallaght, Co. Dublin, on March 28, 1821, being one of the Russells of Limerick, whose settlement in Ireland dates from the time of Richard II. He entered Trinity college in 1838. Three years later he was thrown very much on his own resources, but a rela tive, R. W. Russell, who had been sent to Ireland by The Times, deputed him to report the Irish elections at Longford, and his success definitely turned his attention to journalism. Coming to London in 1842, he went to Cambridge, but left before taking a degree. He was special correspondent for The Times in Ireland in 1845, in Denmark in the war of 1849-50, and in the Crimean War. His letters written from the Crimea were published in book form as The War, 1855-56. The exposure made by Russell of the mismanagement in the Crimea contributed to the fall of the Aberdeen ministry. Russell also served as correspondent
in India in 1858, in America in 1861-3, in the Seven Weeks' War of 1866, in the Franco-German war of 1870; and he was with Wolseley in South Africa in 1879 and in Egypt in 1882. In 186o he founded the Army and Navy Gazette. Russell was knighted in May 1895, and was the recipient of numerous war medals and various foreign orders. He died on Feb. 1s, 1907.
His works include: My Diary in India in 1858-59 (186o) ; My Diary, North and South, during the. Civil War in America, 1862 (1862); My Diary during the Last Great War (the Franco-Prussian War of 1870) (1873) ; Hesperothen, a description of a tour in the United States and Canada (1882) ; and The Great War with Russia (1895).