Editing John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (section)

== Personal life ==

===Marriages and children===
[[File:Lady John Russell.png|thumb|upright|Russell's first wife, Adelaide Lister, Lady Ribblesdale (1807–1838)]]
Russell married Adelaide, Lady Ribblesdale (widow of [[Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale]], 1790 –1832){{sfn|Scherer|1999|pp=80–82}} on 11 April 1835. Together they had two daughters:
* Lady Georgiana Adelaide Russell (1836 – 25 September 1922). She married Archibald Peel (son of General [[Jonathan Peel]]) on 15 August 1867. They had seven children.
* Lady Victoria Russell (20 October 1838 – 9 May 1880). She married Henry Villiers (the son of The Honorable [[Henry Montagu Villiers]]) on 16 April 1861. They had ten children and left many descendants.{{sfn|Reid|1895|p=}}

Adelaide came down with a fever following the birth of their second child and died a few days later on 1 November 1838. Following her death, Russell continued to raise his late wife's son, [[Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale|Thomas, 3rd Lord Ribblesdale]], and three daughters from her first marriage, as well as their two daughters.

[[File:Frances, Lady John Russell.jpg|thumb|upright|Russell's second wife, Lady Frances, with their eldest son, Viscount Amberley]]

On 20 July 1841, Russell remarried, to [[Frances Russell, Countess Russell|Lady Frances ("Fanny") Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound]], daughter of Russell's cabinet colleague [[Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Earl of Minto]]. Together they had four children:
* [[John Russell, Viscount Amberley]] (1842–1876). He married [[Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley|The Hon. Katherine Stanley]] on 8 November 1864. They had four children, including a stillborn daughter. Their eldest son, [[Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell|Frank]], would succeed Lord John to the title to become the 2nd Earl Russell. Another son, the 3rd Earl, was the philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]].
* Hon. George Gilbert William Russell (14 April 1848 – 27 January 1933).
* Hon. [[Rollo Russell|Francis Albert Rollo Russell]] (1849–1914). He married Alice Godfrey (d. 12 May 1886) on 21 April 1885. They had one son. He remarried Gertrude Joachim on 28 April 1891. They had two children.
* [[Lady Agatha Russell|Lady Mary Agatha Russell]] (1853–1933).

In 1847, [[Queen Victoria]] granted [[Pembroke Lodge]] in [[Richmond Park]] to Lord and Lady John. It remained their family home for the rest of their lives.{{sfn|Scherer|1999|p=135}}<ref name="Fletcher Jones">{{cite book |author= Fletcher Jones, Pamela |date=1972 |title=Richmond Park: Portrait of a Royal Playground |publisher=[[Phillimore & Co Ltd]] |isbn=0-8503-3497-7 |page=41}}</ref>

=== Religious views ===
Russell was religious in a simple non-dogmatic way and supported "[[broad church]]" stances in the Church of England. He opposed the "[[Oxford Movement]]" because its "Tractarian" members were too dogmatic and too close to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He supported Broad Churchmen or Latitudinarians by several appointments of liberal churchmen as bishops. In 1859 he reversed himself and decided to free non-Anglicans of the duty of paying rates (taxes) to the local Anglican parish. His political clumsiness and opposition to Church finance made him a target of attack and ridicule in many Church circles.{{sfn|Nikol|1974|pp=341–357}}{{sfn|Ellens|1987|pp=232–249}}{{sfn|Chadwick|1966|pp=129, 146, 479}}

===Final years and death===

Following the death of their daughter-in-law Viscountess Amberley in 1874 and their son Viscount Amberley in 1876, Earl Russell and Countess Russell brought up their orphaned grandchildren, [[Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell|John ("Frank") Russell]], who became 2nd Earl Russell on his grandfather's death, and [[Bertrand Russell]] who would go on to become a noted philosopher and who in later life recalled his elderly grandfather as "a kindly old man in a wheelchair."{{sfn|Clark|2011|loc=Ch. 1}}

Earl Russell died at home at Pembroke Lodge on 28 May 1878. The Prime Minister, the [[Benjamin Disraeli|Earl of Beaconsfield]], offered a public funeral and burial at Westminster Abbey for Russell but this was declined by Countess Russell in accordance with her late husband's wish to be buried among his family and ancestors.<ref>{{Hansard|url=1878/may/31/question-observation|House House of Lords|access-date=24 January 2021}}</ref> He is buried at the [[St Michael's, Chenies#Bedford Chapel|'Bedford Chapel']] at [[St Michael's, Chenies|St. Michael's Church]], [[Chenies]], Buckinghamshire.