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English: Arms of Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900): Argent, a lion rampant gules on a chief sable three escallops of the first a bordure engrailed vert. He was an Irish statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England, the first Roman Catholic to serve as Lord Chief Justice since the Reformation. Russell was born in Newry, County Down, the elder son of Arthur Russell (d.1845) of Killowen, County Down, a brewer, of Newry and Seafield House, Killowen (Cokayne, G. E. & Geoffrey H. White, eds. (1949). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Rickerton to Sisonby). 11 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, 1949, p.233) County Down, by his wife Margaret Mullin of Belfast. The family was in moderate circumstances, their ancestors having suffered much for the Roman Catholic faith in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although he believed himself to be of Irish origin, he was later granted for his coat of arms a differenced version of the arms of the Russell, Dukes of Bedford, which family originated in Dorset, England, in the 16th century (Complete Peerage). No relationship between the two families is apparent.