14 APRIL 1917, Page 3

Mr. Charles E. B. Russell, who died last week on

his fifty-first birthday, will be deeply mourned not only by the friends of his own station, but also by the hundreds of poor boys" and young men to whom he had been a guide, philosopher, and friend. He devoted all his leisure for many years to the Heywood Street Lads' Club in a working-class quarter of Manchester, until four years ago lie was appointed by the Homo Office to be Chief Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools—a post which, if it had not existed, should have been created for him.