Researching Russell White
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The name Russell means "red-haired" and is of French origin.
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Russell White (bishop)
Russell Berridge White was the inaugural Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959 to 1968.
Born on 13 December 1896 he was educated at the City of Oxford School and (after wartime service with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After this he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford followed by a curacy at St Philemon, Toxteth. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1923 (23 September) by Francis Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool, and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (28 September 1924) by Albert David, Bishop of Liverpool – both times at Liverpool Cathedral. Between 1929 and 1933 he was Vicar of St Chrysostom, Everton and then until 1937 he was Chaplain to the Mercers' Company and Secretary of the Evangelical Churchmens Ordination Council, with an office in St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London. From 1937 to 1945 he was Vicar of St Stephens, East Twickenham. From 1945 until his retirement in 1968 he served as firstly Vicar and Rural Dean and then Bishop of Tonbridge. He was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1959, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. From 1968 until his death in 1978 he was Assistant Bishop in the Guildford Diocese. Described by The Times as "one of the most trusted of his generation of evangelical leaders" he died on 12 December 1979, the day before his 83rd birthday.
Source: Russell White (bishop), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRussell White (politician)
Russell Thomas White (19 June 1895 – 3 September 1981) was an Australian politician.
He was born at Windermere, Victoria to farmer William Nicholas White and Ellen Janet Banfield. He attended Grenville College in Ballarat and became a dairy farmer at Cardigan. On 20 December 1917 he married Isabel Wade, with whom he had three children. He was the founding president of the local branch of the Country Party, and served on Ballarat Shire Council from 1928–46, with two periods as president (1934–37, 1942–43).
In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Allandale. In 1951 he was appointed minister without portfolio and cabinet secretary in the Country Party government.
In 1952, he assumed the State Development portfolio. In December 1952 the government was defeated and White moved to the back bench. He changed seats to Ballarat North in 1955 and resigned from parliament in 1960 to become chairman of the Trotting Control Board. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.
White retired in 1973 and died at Ballarat in 1981.
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