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	Russell on Encyclopedia.com
		Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, 1593-1641, was the most important opponent of Charles I in the House of Lords and was the brightest hope for reconciliation between king and Parliament when he suddenly died in 1641.
		His son, Francis Russell, 2d earl of Bedford, 1527?-1585, was an influential privy councilor under Elizabeth I and president of the council of Wales.
		Francis Russell, 5th duke of Bedford, 1765-1802, was a follower of Charles James Fox and one of the friends of the prince of Wales (later George IV).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/russl.asp (841 words)

	Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1593-1641), was the only son of William Rusell, Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, to which barony he succeeded in August 1613.
		In 1623 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Devon and in May 1627 became Earl of Bedford on the death of his cousin, Edward, the 3rd Earl.
		Bedford was the head of those who undertook to drain the great level of The Fens of Cambridgeshire, which were renamed the "Bedford Level" in his honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Russell,_4th_Earl_of_Bedford (496 words)

	List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
		180 (inv 1459) Jasper (Tudor), Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford.
		704 (inv 1849) George William Frederick (Villiers) 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-70).
		Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm (13903 words)

	I27182: Francis Russell 4th Earl Of Bedford ( - )
		Descendants of Francis Russell 4th Earl Of Bedford and ???
		Francis Russell 4th Earl Of Bedford and Unknown spouse had the following children
		1 Francis Greville 3rd Baron Brooke Of Beauchamp¹s Court
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0024/I27182.html (81 words)

	Duke of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Bedford, all in the peerage of England, are: Marquess of Tavistock (created 1694), Earl of Bedford (1550), Baron Russell of Cheneys (1539), Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in the county of Northampton (1603) and Baron Howland of Streatham in the county of Surrey (1695).
		John Russell, a close advisor of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was granted the title of Earl of Bedford in 1551, and his descendant William, 5th Earl, was created Duke following the Glorious Revolution.
		Enguerrand de Coucy, 1st Earl of Bedford (1340-1397) (resigned 1377)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Bedford (374 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th earl of: see Russell, family.
		Bedford, John Russell, 4th duke of Bedford, John Russell, 4th duke of: see Russell, family.
		Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford Walpole, Horace or Horatio, 4th earl of Orford, 1717-97, English author; youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=4th+July (363 words)

	Thank You ::: Covent Garden ::: More than just a Square...
		Francis Russell, the 4th Earl of Bedford obtains a building license from King Charles to lay out the Piazza and surrounding streets to a plan drawn up by the architect Inigo Jones.
		John Russell, the 1st Earl of Bedford is granted much of the land in the area by Henry VIII, for services to the Crown, following the dissolution of the monasteries.
		It is told that the Earl, anxious not to spend too much, instructed his architect "I would not have it much better than a barn", Jones is said to have replied "Well then, you shall have the handsomest barn in England!"
	www.coventgardenmarket.co.uk /navigation/history.html (575 words)

	RUSSELL OF - Online Information article about RUSSELL OF
		House of Russell (1833), and R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol.
		Russell was somewhat chagrined at the choice, as he and Norris were not very See also:
		Bedford, and was educated at Magdalen See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/RUSSELL_OF.html (624 words)

	Bow Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The area around Bow Street was developed by the Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in the 1630s.
		Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford was born there in 1661.
		It features as one of the streets on the standard London Monopoly board.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bow_Street (151 words)

	"R" Famous People
		Russell, Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford (1593-1641) English nobleman, the son of William, Baron Russell.
		Russell (of Kingston Russell), John Russell, 1st Earl, (1792-1878) British statesman and prime minister (1846-52, 1865-6)...
		Russell, George William, (1867-1935) Poet and mystic, born in Lurgan, Co Armagh, C Northern Ireland, UK.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Rfam (13678 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1593
		Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)
		September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (born 1531)
		Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=1593 (434 words)

	Descendants of Stephen Russell, of Weymough (-1438) -gen 1-14 of 20 gen-
		Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, son of Hon.
		4th Earl of Jersey, 7th Viscount Grandison and Frances
		Descendants of Stephen Russell, of Weymough (-1438) -gen 1-14 of 20 gen-
	worldroots.com /foundation/britain/stephenrusselldesc+1438.htm (642 words)

	Children of Captain Nathaniel Stillman, Jr.
		Martha Russell was a decendent of Francis Russell, the 4th Earl of Bedford, England.
		daughter of Lieutenant David Deming and Martha Russell
		Lieutenant David Deming was a decendent of John Deming, one of the Patentees of the 1662 Royal Charter of Connecticut which was hidden in the Charter Oak Tree in 1687.
	www.stillman.org /c13.htm (52 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10538
		Sir Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford was born in 1587.
		She was the daughter of Sir Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford and Catharine Brydges.
		She married Sir Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, son of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland and Lady Dorothy Sydney, on 10 June 1665.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10538.htm (3144 words)

	Unfolding Landscapes
		The ambitious drainage scheme was undertaken as a private venture by a group of wealthy men led by Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, and involved creating a new, straight channel which was named the Bedford River.
		Russell died in 1641 and the English Civil War interrupted the work, but in 1649 his son the 5th Earl resumed the project.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /exhibitions/unfold/fens.htm (135 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10237
		She married Sir Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, son of Sir William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh and Elizabeth Long, on 26 February 1608/9 in St.
		She married Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, son of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford and Hon.
		She married Sir William Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, son of Sir Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle and Gertrude de Quirna van der Duyn, on 21 February 1722 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10237.htm (1788 words)

	Russel Hotel
		Russell is the name of an eminent English Whig family who have held the title of Earl of Bedford since the 16th century, and Duke of Bedford since the late 17th century.
		John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford – Tudor statesman
		Russell Means, a Sioux, was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation; both of his parents had been educated at Indian boarding schools.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/178/russel-hotel.html (1133 words)

	The Bedford
		In 1669 William, grandson of Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford married Lady Rachel, daughter and heiress to the 4th Earl of Southampton, whose great grandfather had bequeathed parcels of land that are now known as Holborn and Bloomsbury.
		The Bedford Arms was sited on part of the estate owned by the Russell family who later became the Dukes of Bedford.
		The original Music Hall was built on part of the tea gardens belonging to the Bedford Arms in 1861, in common with an increasing movement to provide a formal structure for the entertainment once held in the public bars.
	www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /Bedford.htm (838 words)

	Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th earl of on Encyclopedia.com
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		Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/index.html (61 words)

	Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections
		[Baron Russell of Thornhaugh; 4th Earl of Bedford] b.
		References: BP1934 (Bedford) with support and some input from Collins (1741, vol.
	members.aol.com /rfield/russell.html (149 words)

	Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
		Bedford, William Russell, 5th earl and 1st duke of
		Bohun, Humphrey VIII de, 4th earl of Hereford and 3d earl of Essex
		Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of
	www.infoplease.com /encyclopedia/1ukhistbio.html (663 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Caus, de: (2) Isaac de Caus
		Most of his work, however, was for Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.
		He was the executant architect of the houses built on the Bedford estate at Covent Garden, London, c.
		From this point on he appears to have been closely associated with Jones, and possibly acted as chief garden designer under James I and Charles I. His French background assured him of a sympathetic employer in Queen Henrietta Maria, Charles I& wife, for whom he built a grotto (1630–33; destr.) at Somerset House in London.
	www.artnet.com /library/01/0149/T014939.asp (264 words)

	Alabama Civil War Cavalry Regimental Histories
		Mead's cavalry cooperated with Col. Alfred A. Russell's 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment in November and December 1864, in support of Gen'l John Bell Hood's Nashville campaign.
		In the fall of 1864, the 7th reported to Gen'l Nathan Bedford Forrest at Corinth, Mississippi and was reassigned to Rucker's Brigade.
		The 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Roddey's) was formed at Tuscumbia in October, 1862, and moved to middle Tennessee where it wintered.
	www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/alcav.html (4377 words)

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	www.onelook.com /?w=4th&ls=a (133 words)

	Covent Garden - TheBestLinks.com - Edward VI of England, Great Fire of London, George Bernard Shaw, Henry VIII of England, ...
		The modern-day Covent Garden has its roots in the early seventeenth century when land ("the Convent's Garden") was redeveloped by Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.
		King Henry VIII granted part of the land to John Russell, Baron Russell, Lord High Admiral, and later Earl of Bedford.
		This type of lease eventually led to property disputes throughout the kingdom, which King Henry VIII solved in 1540 by the stroke of a pen when he dissolved the monasteries and appropriated their land.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Covent_Garden.html (773 words)

	London Hotels in London WC1, WC2
		In the 1630s Francis Russell, the 4th Earl of Bedford, commissioned Inigo Jones to develop the centre of Covent Garden to provide accommodation suitable for 'Gentlemen and men of ability'.
		Influenced by the Italian neo-Classicism of Palladio, the architect created an arcaded, three-sided square of tall terraces, overlooked by St Paul's, a plain Tuscan-style church.
		The Cosmo Bedford House Hotel, 27 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2PJ
	www.guidetorichmond.co.uk /hotels/londonwc1.html (732 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Custodis, Hieronimos
		Her younger sister Catherine became the wife of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, through whom the three portraits presumably passed to Woburn; they were first noted there by Vertue in 1727.
		Elizabeth, whose charming portrait is embellished with a little dog and a finch on a spray of eglantine, was the ‘fair Mrs Brydges’ to whom the Earl of Essex showed so much attention as to offend Queen Elizabeth.
		The elaboration of the dress of mother and daughter, the cool colours and the meticulous delineation of jewellery are reminiscent of the work of Nicholas Hilliard, and Custodis also seems to owe something to the English portrait painter George Gower.
	www.artnet.com /library/02/0207/T020730.asp (226 words)

	Russell Family Crest
		Francis Russell (1593-1641) English 4th Earl of Bedford
		In the Russell coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
		Descendants of William Russell of Salem, Mass., 1647 by George Ely Russell, Odyssey of the Barkers and The Russells by Don W. Barker, Long, Long Ago, 1776-1976: a Genealogical Record of the Farris, Wells, Keltner, Wynne, Russell, Roberts Families in America by Harriett Farris Boozer.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/russell-family-crest.htm (536 words)

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