William Russell of Ashiestiel

(d. 1803)

LBT ID: WiRusse1803	DIED: 1803
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry (1863) 2:1303
Military officer who served under Clive in India; in 1776 he married Jean Rutherford; he was Walter Scott's uncle.
REFERENCES TO William Russell of Ashiestiel: Walter Scott to Miss Christian Rutherford, 5 September 1794 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n3 Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 2