Alexander Rutherford Russell (1825 – 20 May 1886) was

Dean of Adelaide St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of the Province of South Australia. The cathedral, a significant Adelaide landmark, is situ ...

from 1866 until his death in 1886. He was born in

Perthshire Perthshire (Scottish English, locally: ; ), officially the County of Perth, is a Shires of Scotland, historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore, Angus and Perth & Kinross, Strathmore ...

, educated at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, and

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

in 1851. He was promoted from St Andrew's Church, Walkerville in March 1855 to rector of

St John's Church, Adelaide St. John's is an Anglican church at the south-east corner of the City of Adelaide dating from 1841. The first building was demolished in 1886 and its replacement opened in 1887. The first church In 1840 the first Anglican church building, Tri ...

in November 1859. He founded

St Paul's Church, Adelaide St Paul's Church was an Anglican church on Pulteney Street, Adelaide, on the northeast corner of Pulteney and Flinders streets. It was built adjacent to the Pulteney Street School, predecessor of today's Pulteney Grammar School. The building still ...

on Pulteney Street in 1860, and succeeded James Farrell as

in 1869. He continued to serve at St Paul's until his death in 1886. He was editor of the short-lived (1857–1858) ''Educational Journal'', official organ of the "Preceptors' Society".

Recognition

Bishop

Nutter Thomas Arthur Nutter Thomas (11 December 1869 – 10 April 1954), commonly referred to as Dr Nutter Thomas or A. Nutter Thomas, was the Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia, from 1906 to 1940. Early life Nutter Thomas was born in Hackney, L ...

, in delivering a eulogy "Well done, good and faithful servant" for

Canon Sunter James Sunter (4 September 1839 – 10 July 1909), commonly referred to as Canon Sunter, was rector of St Paul's Church, Adelaide, from 1890 to 1909. An obituary referred to him as "one of the best known and most highly respected clergymen in Adel ...

of St Paul's Church, made reference to his predecessor Russell as "poet and preacher".

Bibliography

* Fred T. Whitington ''Some words in memory of Alexander Russell, Dean of Adelaide'' pub. W. K. Thomas, Adelaide, 1886

References

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