Jesse Watts Russell

(1786-1875)

LBT ID: JeWatts1875	B/BAP: 1786-05-06 DIED: 1875-03-26
SOURCES: The Times (1 April 1875); historyofparliamentonline.org; Virtual International Authority File
Of Ilam Hall, Staffordshire; the son of a wealthy London soap manufacturer, he married an heiress and was Tory MP for Gatton (1820-26).
REFERENCES TO Jesse Watts Russell: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 12 December 1838 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 6 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XV Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 3