Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

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Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen PC, (12 January 1908 – 23 June 1986), was a British judge and law lord.

The son of the Lord Russell of Killowen, Russell was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1962 to 1975, having been made also a Privy Councillor in 1962.

On 30 September 1975, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and became additionally a life peer with the title Baron Russell of Killowen, of Killowen in the County Down, the same title, that his grandfather and father already had.

[edit] Famous judgments

• Whitehouse -v- Lemon; Whitehouse -v- Gay News Ltd On Appeal From Regina -v- Lemon[1979] 2 WLR 281

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] External links

• Portraits of Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen at the National Portrait Gallery, London