Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Russell of Liverpool | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 8 April 1981 |
Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor1: | 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start2: | 11 December 2014 |
1Blankname2: | By-election |
1Namedata2: | 10 December 2014 |
Predecessor2: | 3rd Viscount Allenby |
Birth Name: | Simon Gordon Jared Russell |
Birth Date: | 30 August 1952 |
Party: | Crossbench |
Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 30 August 1952), is a British crossbench peer.
The paternal grandson of Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, he was educated at Charterhouse School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and INSEAD.[1] His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP 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 elected hereditary peer at a by-election in December 2014.[2] He sits as a crossbencher.