John Russell (priest, born 1792)
Irish Anglican priest (1792-1865)
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John Abraham Russell (6 November 1792 - 29 April 1865) was an Irish Anglican priest.[1]
Russell was born in Limerick[2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin[3] where he was a close friend of the poet Charles Wolfe.[4] Russell edited Wolfe's poems and sermons, which were published with a brief biography in 1826.[5] He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1826[6] until his death.[7]
He married Frances Story, who outlived him by many years, and had at least three sons and one daughter Geraldine, who married Heneage Horsley Jebb a descendant of Bishop Samuel Horsley.
