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Rodney Fryer Russell RWS (1918–1996) was an amateur watercolourist portrait painter and poet.He was born in Dorset England. He had a brother Christopher (who died before the war) and a sister Joan. In 1950 he won a scholarship to Paris. He lived in London West Sussex Spain and Dorset. Having half completed an architectural degree at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) by 1939 he commanded an ML off the coast of Britain and saw service in the Far East.