RUSSELL. WILLIAM HOWARD, LL.D.. b. Ireland, 1821; educated at a private school in Dublin until 1838, when he entered Trinity college. He wrote for the London Times in 1841, and with such appreciation as to be attached to the parliamentary corps of that paper in 1843! He studied at the bar, entering the Middle temple in 1846, in which year he married. His first important expedition as a correspondent was in 1854. when he was sent by the limes to the seat of the Crimean war, in the description of which he established a high reputation for brilliancy of diction and graphic representation. He visited Moscow in 1856, and described in the columns of the limes the coronation of the emperor. In 1856 he was sent to India on the occasion of the mutiny, and was with lord Clyde from the capture of Lucknow until the close of the mutiny, serving in Rohilcund, Oude, etc for which he received the war medal with Lucknow clasp. In 1858 he returned to England and established the Army and _Nary Gazette, of which he continues editor and principal proprietor. In 1861 he was re-engaged by the Times as
war-correspondent, and visited the United States in that capacity, hut remained only until after the first battle of Bull Run. His account of that engagement rendered him obnoxious to the union leaders, and, being refused permission to accompany the army, his mission ended. and he returned to England. In 1866 he was present at the battles of Koni,7gratz and Sadowa; and in 1870 at the battle of Sedan and the siege and fall of Paris. He chronicled for the Times the incidents of the visit of the prince of Wales to India, was a juror at the Paris exposition of 1878, and was nominated an officer of the legion of honor. He has been presented with the iron cross of Prussia, the war medal for 1870-71, the Turkish war medal for the Crimea, the order of the Medjidie (4th class), and other decorations; and in 1856 received the degree of LL.D. from the university of Dublin. He published Letters from the Crimea; Diary in India; .try Diary North and South; and other works.