George William Erskine Russell

George William Erskine Russell (1853–1919) was an English Liberal politician and man of letters, a grandson of the sixth Duke of Bedford. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he sat in Parliament for Aylesbury and later for North Bedfordshire and held junior office under Gladstone at the Local Government Board, the India Office and the Home Office. A devout Anglo-Catholic, he wrote on church matters and lives of Gladstone, Sydney Smith, Matthew Arnold and Dr. Pusey, and edited Arnold's letters. He is best remembered for Collections and Recollections, a book of political and social anecdote published under the name One Who Has Kept a Diary, and for Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography.