Dr. W. J. Russell, F. R. S.

Abstract

WILLIAM JAMES RUSSELL was born in May, 1830, at Gloucester, where his father was a banker. He was educated at private schools—Dr. Wreford's at Bristol, and afterwards at Mr. Bache's at Birmingham. In passing, it may be noted that this was before the educational revival that produced and was furthered by the Public Schools Commission of 1859, and that in those days there were very many private schools where scholarship was carried to quite as high a level, and when the conditions of out-of-school life were in some respects much better than in most of the public schools of the time.