Jesse David Watts-Russell

{{Short description|British Politician}}

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|name = Jesse David Watts-Russell

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|office = Member of Parliament
for North Staffordshire

|term_start = 5 July 1841

|term_end = 12 August 1847

|predecessor = Bingham Baring
Edward Buller-Yarde-Buller

|successor = Charles Adderley
George Egerton

|alongside = Charles Adderley

|birth_date = 1812

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|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

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Jesse David Watts-Russell (1812 – 7 March 1879){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "S" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons4.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=27 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714150551/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons4.htm|archivedate=14 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=30 April 2018 }} was a British Conservative politician.{{cite book |last1=Stooks Smith |first1=Henry |title=The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive |date=1845 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. |location=London |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40 |via=Google Books |accessdate=27 May 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Lundy |first1=Darryl |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527173821/http://www.thepeerage.com/p28324.htm |archivedate=27 May 2019 |title=Jesse David Watts-Russell |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p28324.htm#i283237 |website=The Peerage |accessdate=27 May 2019 |date=12 December 2010 |url-status=live}}

He was the son of Jesse Watts-Russell, an MP for Gatton and Mary Watts, and married Mary Nevill Wright, daughter of John Smith Wright and Lydia Gray, and had at least nine children, including Josephine (died {{circa|1893}}).

Watts-Russell was elected Conservative MP for North Staffordshire at the 1841 general election, and held the seat until 1852 when he stood down.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=456}}

He was also, at some point, a Justice of the Peace.