Thomas Russell (rebel)

Thomas Paliser Russell
Born	(1767-11-21)November 21, 1767 Dromahane, County Cork, Kingdom of Ireland
Died	October 21, 1803(1803-10-21) (aged 35) Downpatrick, County Down, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cause of death	Executed for High Treason
Nationality	Kingdom of Ireland, Irish
Occupation(s)	Soldier, Librarian, Revolutionary
Notable work	Letter to the People of Ireland (1796)
Movement	Society of United Irishmen

Thomas Paliser Russell (21 November 1767 – 21 October 1803) was a founding member, and leading organiser, of the United Irishmen marked by his radical-democratic and millenarian convictions. A member of the movement's northern executive in Belfast, and a key figure in promoting a republican alliance with the agrarian Catholic Defenders, he was arrested in advance of the risings of 1798 and held until 1802. He was executed in 1803, following Robert Emmet's aborted rising in Dublin for which he had tried, but failed, to raise support among United and Defender veterans in the north.