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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 49: Robinson Russell
Cambridge, where he Obtained Sir William Browne's medal for the best Latin Ode in 1801, and graduated m.a. In 1802. He was admitted a member Of Lincoln's Inn on 7 May 1802, but left the society on 6 Nov. 1809, and was never called to the bar. From 1804 to 1806 he acted as private secretary to his kinsman, Philip, third earl Of Hard wicke, then lord lieutenant Of Ireland. At the general election in November 1806 he was returned to the House of Commons for the borough of Carlow as a moderate tory. He was elected for Ripon at the general election in May 1807, and continued to represent that borough for nearly twenty years. In the summer Of this year he accompanied the Earl of Pembroke on a special mission to Vienna as secretary to the embassy.
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