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{{short description|British peer (born 1952)}}
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| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Russell of Liverpool
| image               = Official portrait of Lord Russell of Liverpool 2020 crop 2.jpg
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| caption             = Official portrait, 2019
| office1          = [[Member of the House of Lords]]
| status1          = [[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_label1      = as a hereditary peer
| term_start1      = 8 April 1981
| term_end1        = 11 November 1999
| predecessor1     = [[Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool|2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool]]
| successor1       = [[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat abolished]]
| term_label2      = as an [[List of excepted hereditary peers|elected hereditary peer]]
| term_start2      = 11 December 2014
| term_end2        =
| 1blankname2      = [[By-elections to the House of Lords|By-election]]
| 1namedata2       = 10 December 2014
| predecessor2     = [[Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby|3rd Viscount Allenby]]
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| birth_name          = Simon Gordon Jared Russell
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'''Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool''' (born 30 August 1952), is a British [[Crossbencher|crossbench]] peer.
The paternal grandson of [[Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool]], he was educated at [[Charterhouse School]], [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], and [[INSEAD]].<ref>‘RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015.</ref> His maternal grandfather was the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP [[Arthur Howard (politician)|Sir Arthur Howard]]. Russell is also the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister [[Stanley Baldwin]].
Having lost his seat in the [[House of Lords]] under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]], he returned as an [[List of excepted hereditary peers|elected hereditary peer]] at a [[By-elections to the House of Lords|by-election]] in December 2014.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2014/Lords-notice-hereditary-peers-by-election-Dec-2014-result-allenby-cobbold.pdf| title=Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-Election, December 2014| accessdate=10 December 2014}}</ref> He sits as a [[crossbencher]].
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|100px]][[File:Russell of Liverpool Escutcheon.png|centre|100px]]
|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.
|crest = An owl wings expanded Argent beaked and legged Or resting the dexter claw and estoile Azure.
|supporters = On either side an owl Argent beaked and legged Or gorged with a chaplet of roses Gules leaved Vert.
|motto = More Light<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1949}}</ref>}}
==References==
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[[Category:1952 births]]
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[[Category:People educated at Charterhouse School]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:INSEAD alumni]]
[[Category:Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Crossbench hereditary peers]]
[[Category:Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999|Russell of Liverpool]]
[[Category:Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999|Russell of Liverpool]]
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