Crimean War Research Society of these and more are examined by the Crimean War Research Society." The Society's journal, "The War Correspondent", contains the results of recent researches by the Society's own members, many of whom are internationally respected professional historians. Each year the Society awards the Canon Lummis Trophy for the most original article in its journal. The Society provides expert advice to projects concerned with the Crimean War; these have included Channel Four's 1997 documentary "The Crimean War" as well as books and journals. The Society has a three-day annual conference when presentations and original research on the Crimean War are given.
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley Sir Thomas Reade of Barton, Berkshire and his wife Mary Brockett, daughter of Sir John Brocket of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire. He was succeeded by his son Francis. Samuel Butler a poet who wrote "Hudibras" was bought up in Russell's house and became his clerk. Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (ca. 1602 – 30 November 1669), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625. He was an officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War and, as Governor of Worcester, he refused entry to the