James Russell

(1801-1862)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Russell, James, 1801-1862 LBT ID: JaRusse1862 VIAF ID: 70893265 LOC ID: nb2001031359	B/BAP: 1801 DIED: 1862
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of Walter Scott's friend Professor James Russell (1754-1836); he took his MD at Edinburgh in 1823 and lived in Ayreshire but did not practice.
REFERENCES TO James Russell: Sir Walter Scott to Samuel Rogers, 26 October 1820 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IX. 1820-1821.