Odo William Leopold Russell (1829–84)

Diplomat. Brother of Hastings Russell, ninth duke of Bedford. Worked at the Foreign Office, 1850–2. Sent during the 1850s to embassies in Vienna, Paris, Constantinople, Washington, and Florence. Attached to a special mission to Sicily, 1859–70; to the German army headquarters at Versailles, 1870–1. Ambassador at Berlin, 1871–84.