# Russell Rea > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Russell_Rea > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Russell_Rea.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Rea > Source revision: 1339268632 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} thumb|right|Russell Rea MP, circa 1906 '''Russell Rea''' [PC](/source/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom), [MP](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (11 December 1846{{cite book | title = Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench | year = 1901 | publisher = Dean & Son | location = London | page = 126 | url = https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1901londuoft#page/126/mode/1up | accessdate = 31 August 2012 }} – 5 February 1916) was an English [ship-owner](/source/ship-owner) from [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) and [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician. He sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) in two periods between 1900 and 1916. ==Early life and family== Rea was the third son of Daniel Key Rea from [Eskdale](/source/Eskdale%2C_Cumbria) in [Cumberland](/source/Cumberland) and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Liverpool shipbuilder Joseph Russell. He was educated privately. In 1872 he married Jane Philip Mactaggart, the daughter of Peter Mactaggart from Liverpool. They had two sons and a daughter, Ada Hope Russell Rea (1870-1922). The older son, [Walter](/source/Walter_Rea%2C_1st_Baron_Rea) (1873–1948), entered politics and became a [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) (MP) for most of the period from 1906 to 1935, and was ennobled in 1937 with the [hereditary title](/source/hereditary_peerage) of [Baron Rea](/source/Baron_Rea). The younger son ran the Liverpool branch of the family business.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Mr. Russell Rea, M.P. |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/588/707/160772198w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS101647943&dyn=8 |newspaper=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |date=7 February 1916 |page=6 |accessdate=1 September 2012 }} ==Career== ===Business=== In the 1890s, he founded the ship-owning and merchant company of R. and J. H. Rea in Liverpool. The business grew to have branches in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), [Southampton](/source/Southampton), [Bristol](/source/Bristol), and [Newcastle upon Tyne](/source/Newcastle_upon_Tyne), and Rea was senior director of all main company and all its subsidiaries. He was also deputy chairman of the [Taff Vale Railway](/source/Taff_Vale_Railway). ===Politics=== Rea was the Liberal candidate at the [November 1897 by-election](/source/1897_Liverpool_Exchange_by-election) in the [Exchange division](/source/Liverpool_Exchange_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) of Liverpool, where he lost by only 54 votes (1% of the total) to the [Liberal Unionist](/source/Liberal_Unionist) candidate [Charles McArthur](/source/Charles_McArthur).{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-date=1989 |edition=2nd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |pages= 111, 141, 191 }} At the [1900 general election](/source/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election), he was elected as the [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) (MP) for [Gloucester](/source/Gloucester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), where he was re-elected in [1906](/source/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election). He became a [Privy Council](/source/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom)lor in 1909.{{London Gazette |issue=28265 |date=29 June 1909 |page=4953 }} However, at the [January 1910 election](/source/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election), he lost his seat to the [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) candidate [Henry Terrell](/source/Henry_Terrell_(politician)). However, he returned to [Parliament](/source/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom) only 9 months after his defeat, when he won the [October 1910 by-election](/source/1910_South_Shields_by-election) for [South Shields](/source/South_Shields_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). Rea was appointed as a [Junior Lord of the Treasury](/source/Junior_Lord_of_the_Treasury) in 1915, but his health broke down in November 1915, and on 5 February 1916 he died of [heart failure](/source/heart_failure) at his home in [Dorking](/source/Dorking), aged 69. His funeral was held in [St Margaret's, Westminster](/source/St_Margaret's%2C_Westminster), and he was buried in Golders Green.{{cite news |title=Funerals |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/588/707/160772198w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS185402954&dyn=9!nxt_229_0_CS185402954 |newspaper=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |date=10 February 1916 |page=11 |accessdate=1 September 2012 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-russell-rea | Russell Rea }} * {{NPG name}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = [Charles Monk](/source/Charles_James_Monk) }} {{s-ttl | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Gloucester](/source/Gloucester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1900](/source/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[January 1910](/source/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election) }} {{s-aft | after = [Henry Terrell](/source/Henry_Terrell_(politician)) }} {{s-bef | before = [William Robson](/source/William_Robson%2C_Baron_Robson) }} {{s-ttl | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [South Shields](/source/South_Shields_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1910](/source/1910_South_Shields_by-election)–[1916](/source/1916_South_Shields_by-election) }} {{s-aft | after = [Cecil Cochrane](/source/Cecil_Algernon_Cochrane) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rea, Russell}} Category:1846 births Category:1916 deaths Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1900–1906 Category:UK MPs 1906–1910 Category:UK MPs 1910 Category:UK MPs 1910–1918 Category:English businesspeople in shipping Category:Businesspeople from Liverpool Category:Politicians from Liverpool Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Category:19th-century English businesspeople --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Russell Rea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Rea) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Rea?action=history)). 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