Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool

The Right Honourable
The Lord Russell of Liverpool
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Life peerage
8 June 2026
Elected Hereditary Peer
11 December 2014 – 29 April 2026
By-election2014
Preceded byThe 3rd Viscount Allenby
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Hereditary peerage
27 April 1982 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
BornSimon Gordon Jared Russell
(1952-08-30) 30 August 1952
PartyCrossbench

Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool, Baron Russell of Kiloran (born 30 August 1952), is a British hereditary peer. As a member of the House of Lords, he sits as a crossbencher.

Lord Russell was born on 30 August 1952, the eldest son of Kiloran Margaret Howard (b. 1926) and Captain the Hon. Langley Gordon Haslingden Russell (1922–1975), who predeceased his father the 2nd Baron.[1] In 1981, Russell succeeded to the barony on the death of his paternal grandfather Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool. His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Sir Arthur Howard. Russell is also the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Russell was educated at Charterhouse School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and INSEAD.[2]

Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he returned as an elected hereditary peer at a by-election in December 2014.[3] Russell was removed again in April 2026 from the House of Lords as part of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026, but was returned to the House as a life peer when he was created as Baron Russell of Kiloran, of Colonsay in the County of Argyll in the May 2026 political peerages.[4]

Coat of arms of Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Crest
An owl wings expanded Argent beaked and legged Or resting the dexter claw and estoile Azure.
Escutcheon
Per saltire Sable and Or in chief an estoile Argent two roses in fess Gules barbed and seeded Proper and in base a thistle leaved and slipped of the second.
Supporters
On either side an owl Argent beaked and legged Or gorged with a chaplet of roses Gules leaved Vert.
Motto
More Light[5]

References

  1. ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Volume 3. Wilmington: Burkes. p. 3445.
  2. ↑ ‘RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-Election, December 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "No. 65090". The London Gazette. 11 June 2026. p. 11662.
  5. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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