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Russell (GEORGE WILLIAM ER- SKINE)

GEORGE WILLIAM ER- SKINE, an English public official and writer, born in London in 1853. He was educated at Harrow and at University College, Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal from Aylesbury, from 1880 to 1885, and from North Bedfordshire from 1892 to 1895.

From 1892 to 1894 he was Under-Secretary of State for India and was Under-Secretary of the Home Department in 1894-1895. He wrote "A Life of Gladstone" (1891); two series of memoirs entitled "Collections and Recollections" (1898); "Sydney Smith" (1905); and "The Spirit of England" (1915).