Alexander James RussellWSFRSE (1814–1887) was a Scottish lawyer.
Lifeedit
The grave of Alexander James Russell, Dean Cemetery
He was born at 101 George Street in Edinburgh on 21 June 1814, the son of John Russell FRSEWriter to the Signet.[1] He was apprenticed to his father as a lawyer and qualified as a Writer too the Signet in 1837.
By 1840 he appears as a Clerk to the Signet (CS) living at 9 Shandwick Place at the west end of Princes Street.[2] By 1850 he is in partnership with his father as "J & A J Russell CS".[3]
By 1860 his father had retired and moved to the "south Bank" of Canaan Lane in the Morningside district.[5]
A few years after his father's death he went into business with James Nicolson to create the new firm of Russell & Nicolson at 11 George Street.[6] The firm later evolved into Russell & Dunlop.
He died at Shandwick Place in Edinburgh on 8 January 1887. He is buried in Dean Cemetery.[7]
Familyedit
He was married twice: firstly in 1839 to Magdalene Stein (1820-1857) and secondly in 1861 to Elizabeth Anne Lancaster (1835-1903), twenty years his junior.
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