E. John Russell

Sir Edward John Russell OBE FRS^[1] (31 October 31 1872 – 12 July 1965) was a British agriculturalist and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943.^[2][3] Driven by concerns over a lack of international information exchange about agriculture, he initiated the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, which later became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.

Russell was born Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, the eldest son of the Reverend Edward T. Russell. He was educated at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the Victoria University of Manchester. He earned his Doctorate in Science from the University of London.^[4]

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts during the First World War as Technical Adviser in the Food Production Department.^[5] He was knighted in 1922.^[4]

Russell was president of the British Association for 1948–1949.^[6]

References

1. Thornton, H. G. (1966). "Edward John Russell. 1872-1965". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 12: 456–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1966.0022.
2. Bear, F. E. (1944). "Sir John Russell". Plant Physiology 19 (3): i4–393. doi:10.1104/pp.19.3.391. PMC 438169. PMID 16653941.
3. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35877.
4. "Sir John Russell" (PDF). Plant Physiology 19 (3): 391–393. July 1944.
5. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30460. p. 385. 7 January 1918.
6. Goldsmith, Maurice (18 Nov 1949). "112th Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science". Science 110 (2864): 522–525. doi:10.1126/science.110.2864.522.

External links

• Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community: E. J. (Sir John) Russell
• Royal Society citation
• COPAC list of Russell's books
• Works by Edward John Russell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about E. John Russell at Internet Archive