call on Russel, 44 St M's lane 22.3.1806 = A / 19.10.1815 call on Russell, binder = B / 1.12.1815 Russell calls = B? / 12.4.1816 Russell, player at Writer's Library dinner = C / 18.9.1821 Russell calls, engraver = D / 22.9.1821 Russel, engraver & Hudson au soir = D / 11.12.1821 meet Russell, D L = C / 7.3.1826 Russel at Lady Caroline Lamb's / 29.3.1826 Russell adv at Newton's / 1.4.1826 Russel (& Newton) adv at Kenney's / 12.6.1827 call on Greenhil Russel = E / 14.3.1828 Russel (& Newton) at Kenney's / 5.5.1828 Russel adv at (RA) Exhibition / 1.5.1830 Brighton Russel adv at theatre = C / 6.9.1832 Uwins, Browne & Russel adv at York Road / 7.9.1832 again / 23.9.1833 J Russel at Literary Union (& T Campbel) / 9.2.1834 J Russel at T Campbel's
A) Hugh Russell woollen draper & man's mercer 44 St Martin's Lane 1800 (Sun Fire) bur 8.3.1826 age 66 at St Martin in the Fields burial ground, Camden Town, his will London Consistory 1826 universal legatee Mary Roberts spinster
B) Alexander Russell bookbinder (sr or jr) at Gt Dean's Court till 1799, later at 14 Bridgwater Sq Barbican (will PCC 1830 there). According to British Book Trades Index, Alexander (father or son) was the only Russell bookbinder trading in 1815. Richard Russell was at Walthamstow till 1811 and George Russell at Porter St Soho from 1820
C) Samuel Thomas Russell DNB 1766-1845 actor and stage manager was at Haymarket in 1816, Drury Lane in 1821, and Brighton in 1830
D) The only engraver working at this period called Russell, according to the British Book Trades Index, was G Russell, 6 Little Bell Alley, Coleman St, (music) engraver/etcher. I'm not convinced this was him
E) Sir Robert Greenhill Russell of Chequers Court Bucks Hist of Parl c1763-1836, Whig MP for Thirsk 1806-1832
richard Russell walthamstow
Very interested to see your comment re R Russell at Walthamstow until 1811.i believe this may be our ggggrandfather. We know he was born there c1768 and died there in 1831. He was a bookbinder, and "remembered as a minor composer of sacred music". We know he composed a patriotic song in 1805,
Arouz'd by Threats of Gallic Foe.. inscribed to the Officers of the Loyal Walthamstow Volunteers