Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet

Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet (1783–1852), son of Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet, was appointed British Resident to the court of Pune in 1809. He was then appointed to the more important court of Hyderabad State from 1810 until 1820, when he retired to England.

Southernhay House, Exeter

Russell was Private Secretary and assistant to James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British Resident at Hyderabad from 1798 until his death in 1805. Russell's career is discussed in some detail in William Dalrymple's 2002 history of British India, White Mughals, where he figures as a gifted but weak diplomat who, following the death of his superior, Kirkpatrick, seduced then abandoned Kirkpatrick's widow.^[1]^[2]

Russell resigned the Residency in 1820 to avert an investigation for corruption which would have led to his removal from office in disgrace. On an annual salary of £3,400, he had managed to accumulate a fortune of £85,000 over 10 years.^[1] In retirement he lived at Southernhay House, an architecturally notable listed building in Exeter. It was a newly-built, freestanding, classical mansion of pillared grandeur.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Dalrymple, William (2002). White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200412-X.
↑ Chatterjee, Indrani (2004). Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Rutgers University Press. p. 147. ISBN 0813533805.

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[DalrympleWhiteMughals-1] 1 2 3 Dalrymple, William (2002). White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200412-X.

[ChatterjeeUnfamiliar-2] Chatterjee, Indrani (2004). Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Rutgers University Press. p. 147. ISBN 0813533805.