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The Right Honourable
The Lord Russell of Liverpool
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
8 April 1981 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Succeeded by Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
11 December 2014
By-election10 December 2014
Preceded by 3rd Viscount Allenby
Personal details
Born
Simon Gordon Jared Russell

(1952-08-30) 30 August 1952 (age 71)
Political party Crossbench

Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 30 August 1952), is a British crossbench peer.

The paternal grandson of Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, he was educated at Charterhouse School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and INSEAD. [1] His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Sir Arthur Howard. Russell is also the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.

Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he returned as an elected hereditary peer at a by-election in December 2014. [2] He sits as a crossbencher.

Coat of arms of Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Crest
An owl wings expanded Argent beaked and legged Or resting the dexter claw and estoile Azure.
Escutcheon
Per saltire Sable and Or in chief an estoile Argent two roses in fess Gules barbed and seeded Proper and in base a thistle leaved and slipped of the second.
Supporters
On either side an owl Argent beaked and legged Or gorged with a chaplet of roses Gules leaved Vert.
Motto
More Light [3]

References

  1. ^ ‘RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015.
  2. ^ "Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-Election, December 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Russell of Liverpool
1981–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1981–1999) 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Edward Russell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2014–present 		Incumbent
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