Editing John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (section)

===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>