Lord John Russell
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Russell
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English statesman recalled as a believer in the principle of nationality.
[lvii] it hard to understand how aged statesmen, such as Palmerston and Lord John Russell, became fervent believers in the principle of nationality, and such modern critics of mid-Victorian ideas are specially puzzled when they find a belief in nationalism to have been combined with a desire to found throughout Continental Europe constitutional monarchies after the English model.
Brougham, Russell, and Macaulay, and other Whig statesmen, whether they disclaimed or not the name of Benthamites, were firm believers in common-sense utilitarianism.
The men who in later years were known as Peelites were convinced individualists, no less than the Radicals of the Manchester school, and stood far nearer in their way of looking at politics to the older Benthamites than did a Whig such as Lord John Russell, or a nominally Liberal leader such as Palmerston.
The Law of Torts
Secretary of State who directed that the letter approving Denman's conduct be written.
Stephen, then Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the direction of Lord John Russell, then Secretary of State.