Sir Thomas Wallace Russell,1st BaronetMPPC (Ire) (28 February 1841 –2 May 1920),was an Irish politician and agrarian agitator. Born at Cupar,Fife,Scotland,he moved to County Tyrone at the age of eighteen. He was secretary and parliamentary agent of the Irish temperance movement and became well known as an anti-alcohol campaigner[1] and proprietor of a Temperance Hotel in Dublin.[2]
"loyal and patriotic" Russell as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair,March 1888
However,Russell's views on Home Rule underwent a change around the turn of the century and he gradually became a critic of Unionist policies in Ireland. From 1900 put himself at the head of the Farmers and Labourers Union,an Ulster tenant-farmer protest movement demanding compulsory land purchase,[2] similar to the land and labour movement in the south. His 1901 book Ireland and the Empire was an attack on the Irish agrarian system.[1] From 1902 to 1903 he was a key Ulster farmer representative[3] at the Dublin "Land Conference" which resulted in the passing of the Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903. This defused the Protestant tenant farmers' revolt.[4]
Russell continued to represent Tyrone South in Parliament. In 1906,supported by Lindsay Crawford and his Independent Orange Order while at the same acknowledging his debt to Catholic tenant farmers,[5] he was re-elected as an "Independent Unionist",one of several candidates referred to as "Russellite Unionist".
Russell was vice-president of the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction[1] (DATI),in which capacity he displaced Horace Plunkett as head of the Department in 1907.[2] He disapproved of Plunkett's cooperative Irish Agricultural Organisation Society involving itself in the affairs of farmers,and ended DATI's help for the society.
Russell was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1908 and created a Baronet,of Olney in the County of Dublin,in 1917.[7] He retired from politics in 1918 and died in Dublin on 2 May 1920,aged 79,when the baronetcy became extinct.
Arms
Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Russell,1st Baronet
Notes
Granted 24 August 1917 by George James Burtchaell,Deputy Ulster King of Arms.[8]
Crest
A demi-goat salient Gules supporting a garb Or.
Torse
Of the colours.
Escutcheon
Argent a lion rampant Gules on a chief wavy Vert a bezant between two garbs Or.
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