Francis William Russell (3 June 1800 – 30 August 1871) was the Liberal MPDeaths Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Friday, 1 September 1871; Issue 55113 for Limerick City'THE LIMERICK ELECTION—LORD ARUNDEL' Freeman's Journal (Dublin, Ireland), Thursday, 24 July 1851 from 1852"The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902" Hawkins, A/Powell, J (Eds) p166: Cambridge, CUP, 1997 until his death.Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, Walker, B.M (Ed): Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1978
He was the son of John Norris Russell a Limerick merchant and miller, and brother of Richard Russell, who died one day before him in Limerick. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin"Alumni Dublinensis: A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors, and Provosts of Trinity College, in the University of Dublin 1593-1860" Burtchaell, G.D; Sadleir, T.U (Dublin, TCD, 1935) and entered the Irish Bar in 1824.Russells of Limerick
In 1834 he married Frances Clarke from Melton Mowbray;The Late Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P.- The Times (London, England), Friday, 1 September 1871; pg. 6; Issue 27157 his son, John Thomas Norreys Russell, was a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit and later a JP for Leicestershire; and his grandson, Francis Deane Russell, had a distinguished career in the Indian Army.
Following the death of Francis in 1871, his position in the parliament was filled by Issac Butt.
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