The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

* Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944

* Russell Thorndike in 1923

In the Further Adventures of Doctor Syn from the Doctor Syn-Series by Russell Thorndike one of the episodes introduces a Bow Street Runner who comes to Dymchurch-under-the-Wall to capture the Scarecrow, the notorious leader of a gang of smugglers.

Three authors who specifically used the marsh as settings for their works were E. F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia novels ; Russell Thorndike, author of the Doctor Syn novels ; and the children's writer Monica Edwards, author of the Romney Marsh books in which Rye Harbour becomes " Westling ", Rye is renamed " Dunsford ", and Winchelsea is known as " Winklesea ".

Doctor Syn on the High Seas is the second in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn is the fourth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Doctor Syn Returns is the third in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn is the fifth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn is the sixth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Shadow of Doctor Syn is the seventh and last in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Inspiration from this gave rise to Dymchurch being the setting of the Doctor Syn novels, based on smuggling, by Russell Thorndike.

At the instigation of her brother, the author Russell Thorndike, she then trained as an actress.

* The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, 1964 multi-episode serial by Walt Disney based on a series of novels by Russell Thorndike

Members of the PPU have included Vera Brittain, Benjamin Britten, Clifford Curzon, Alex Comfort, Eric Gill, Ben Greene, Laurence Housman, Aldous Huxley, George Lansbury, Kathleen Lonsdale, Reginald Sorensen, George MacLeod, Sybil Morrison, John Middleton Murry, Peter Pears, Max Plowman, Arthur Ponsonby, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Donald Soper, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Tippett and Wilfred Wellock.

* Doctor Syn, a character in novels by Russell Thorndike

Arthur Russell Thorndike ( 6 February 1885, Rochester, Kent – 7 November 1972 ) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels.

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In the United States, in 1885, the chemist Russell S. Penniman invented " ammonium dynamite ", a form of explosive that used ammonium nitrate as a substitute for the more costly nitroglycerin.

* 1885 – Russell van Horn, American lightweight boxer ( d. 1970 )

* 1804 – Benjamin Russell, American artist ( d. 1885 )

The area around Russell Falls has been protected for its natural beauty since 1885, when it was set aside as Tasmania's first nature reserve.

* William A. Russell, US Congressman from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1885

In 1885 John Russell bought and plotted the town site.

He married Rose Ellen Freer ( 1885 – 1958 ), daughter of Russell John Freer ( 1852 – 1932 ) and Annie Cecile Thornton ( 1863 – 1928 ), both of whom would later live with the Cicottes.

* John Russell ( screenwriter ) ( 1885 – 1956 ), author and screenwriter

Schley wrote, with James Russell Soley, The Rescue of Greely ( New York, 1885 ).

* William Huntington Russell ( 1809 – 1885 ), U. S. businessman, educator and politician from Connecticut, and co-founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones

In 1885, Russell returned to New York and continued to star in operetta and musical theatre.

Russell served as Mayor of Cambridge for four 1-year terms from 1885 – 1888, being reelected with no opposition at least twice.

William Russell Adams, President of the Convention in 1874, 1884, and 1885, wrote to Aldine S. Kieffer, explaining that the convention missed a few years of meeting because of the American Civil War.

* James Russell Lowell ( 1880 – 1885 )

He was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Russell A. Alger in 1885, with the rank of colonel, and held the same position on the staff of the commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888.

In 1885, he was appointed by Governor Russell A. Alger as a Trustee of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Flint, Michigan for a term ending in 1891.

Samuel Russell Crawford ( November 7, 1885 – December 19, 1971 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs of the National Hockey Association ( NHA ), Ottawa Senators and Toronto Arenas of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and Saskatoon Crescents, Calgary Tigers and Vancouver Maroons of the Western Canada Hockey League ( WCHL ).

Russell was a Liberal member of parliament for Bedfordshire between 1875 and 1885, when the constituency was abolished.

* Manchester X ( Hulme ), Russell Street, 1885

It was named for Russell Sylvanus Penniman, an American chemist who in 1885 invented ammonia dynamite.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player

* 1981 – Russell Harvard, American actor

* 1925 – Russell Baker, American writer

* 1963 – Jack Russell, England cricketer and coach

* 1980 – Russell Kane English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist

* 1947 – Willy Russell, English playwright an composer

* 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and guitarist

* 1971 – Russell Payne, English author

* Hertzsprung – Russell diagram – Relates absolute magnitude or luminosity versus spectral color or surface temperature.

* 1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor

* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865 – 1868

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".

* 2005 – Darrell Russell, American football player ( b. 1976 )

* 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English writer ( d. 1855 )

* 1960 – Jack Russell, American singer ( Great White )

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine ( d. 1991 )

* 1911 – Anna Russell, English-born Canadian singer and comedian ( d. 2006 )

Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him " the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America ", suggesting – rhetorically – that he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink.