Champion Branfill
Russell
Male
England
1860-04-26
North Ockendon, London, England
1945-09-08
North Ochendon, London, England
From The Times, 13 September 1945:
Obituary – Mr Champion B. Russell
Mr Champion Branfill Russell, who died on September 8 at the age of 85, was one of the best types of public-spirited private citizens – the country dweller with an horizon beyond his fields. He was educated at Wellington and University College, Oxford, where he helped to organize lawn tennis as a university sport. On leaving college he went out to learn ranching in Wyoming.
On his father’s death in 1887, Champion Russell came back to England and married the Honourable Isabel Bruce, daughter of the first Lord Aberdare – a most happy union, broken only by her death in 1934. They settled in the beautiful old family house, Stubbers, North Ockendon. In his love of nature, in his devotion to the duties of local government and the magistrates’ courts, Russell lived the life of a typical country squire. But into these activities he put an unusual amount of energy, zeal, and imagination.
As chairman of the county education committee, and as governor of several schools, he did much for education. As a magistrate he was occupied to the end of his life in plans for the amelioration of justice. As an active member of the Howard League for Penal Reform, he was constantly busied with constructive thinking. It was largely due to him that the successful experiment of paying token wages to prisoners was initiated by a private gift of money.
He was one of the founders of the Magistrates’ Association. He took every opportunity of insisting that English justice was much the poorer, and our administration of justice amongst the colonial native populations much less intelligible, on account of our comparative neglect of the principle of restitution as opposed to fines. This may have been partly because of his keen interest in the native life and customs of Africa due to visits to North Rhodesia and Uganda, where his son, John Napier Russell, is in the Education Service.
Feeling that further experiment in health and social welfare would clear the path towards the betterment of the natives, he characteristically gave the sum of £1,000 to the Colonial Office towards the inception of intensive work in the single district of Ajeluk, in Uganda. Russell was public-spirited but indifferent to publicity, wise without pedantry, humane without fanaticism – and a somewhat freakish humour added much to his charm.
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1880 - 1888
2
40
28
1881 - Exeter (Amateur)
1881 - Teignmouth and Shaldon (Amateur)
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
David Elgar Payn
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Francis O’Shaughnessy Belli Reade 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
w.o.
Round 1
Edward Henry Christy 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
w.o.
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Walter Edwin Fairlie
6-2
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Andrew Laurie Macfie
6-0
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
A.L. Payne
6-0
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
John Thorneycroft Hartley
6-5
6-4
2-6
2-6
6-0
Final
Herbert Wilberforce 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
6-1
3-6
6-1
6-0
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
F.C. Homfrey
6-3
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Francis Regner Brooksbank Pinhorn
6-0
6-0
6-2
Semifinals
Robert Theodore Milford 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
2-6
5-6
6-2
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
James Walsh
6-2
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Algernon Ambrose Michael Aylmer
6-2
5-6
5-6
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Peter Aungier 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
6-4
6-0
6-4
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
F. Pollock
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 2
H.C. Jenkins 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
6-5
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
J.S. Read
?
Round 2
Dale Womersley 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
?
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
R.C. Graham
6-0
6-0
Round 2
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Norton Goodwyn
6-0
6-2
Round 3
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Francis Coleridge James Boles
6-0
6-0
Round 3
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Francis Coleridge James Boles
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Reverend Thomas Poltimore Dimond Hogg 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
2-6
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Arthur Belfield
?
Semifinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Spencer Cox
?
Final
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Charles John Cole
?
Quarterfinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
George S. Murray Hill
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Charles John Cole
w.o.
Final
Michael Gallwey McNamara 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
2-6
6-2
6-0
6-1
Final
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Spencer Cox
6-3
7-5
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
T.J. Nicholl
6-0
6-3
Round 2
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
William John Down
2
sets
to
0
Round 3
Reverend Thomas Poltimore Dimond Hogg 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
6-4
3-6
7-5
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
G.H. Young
?
Round 2
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Howgate Greaves Warburton
?
Quarterfinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
Arthur Thomas Toller
2-6
6-5
6-1
Semifinals
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
E.C. Keele
6-1
6-3
Final
Stuart Macrae 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
6-5
4-6
6-4
Round 1
Champion Branfill Russell 1 *
E. Deck
2
sets
to
1
Round 2
R.C. Ball 1 *
Champion Branfill Russell
2
sets
to
1