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	Earls and dukes of Bedford - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Earls and dukes of Bedford - LoveToKnow 1911
		John Russell, 4th duke of Bedford (1710-1771), second son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd duke of Bedford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey, was born on the 30th of September '71 o.
		Bedford was hostile to John Wilkes, and narrowly escaped from a mob favourable to the agitator at Honiton in July 1769.
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	John Russell, 1st earl Russell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the Vienna conference (1855) Lord John Russell was England's representative, and immediately on his return he became secretary of the colonies (May 1855), but the errors in his negotiations at the Austrian capital followed him and forced him to retire in July of the same year.
		During the American War Earl Russell's sympathies with the North restrained his country from taking sides in the contest, and he warmly sympathized with the efforts for the unification of Italy, but he was not equally successful in preventing the spoliation of Denmark.
		Earl Russell was twice married - first in 1835, to Adelaide, daughter of Mr Thomas Lister, and widow of Thomas, second Lord Ribblesdale, and secondly, in 1841, to Lady Frances Ann Maria, daughter of Gilbert, second earl of Minto.
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	John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
		John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (about 1485 - 14 March 1554/5) was a English royal minister in the later Tudor era.
		He was created Earl of Bedford[?] on 19 January 1549/50 for his assistance in carrying out the order of the Council against "images" and for promoting the new religion.
		He was succeeded as Earl of Bedford by his son, Francis[?].
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	The Russell School - John Russell
		John Russell was the 1st Earl of Bedford and former resident of Chenies Manor.
		Sir John, who later became the first Earl Russell, was born in 1486 in the reign of Henry VII and died in 1555 in the reign on Mary I. He served Henry VII, his son Henry VIII, his young son Edward and daughter Mary.
		In 1526 when Sir John Russell was 40, he married Anne Sapcote the daughter of Sir Guy Sapcote of Huntingdonshire, and lived at the Manor of Chenies which his wife had inherited through her father from the last of the Cheyne family.
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	Russell - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		He was lord high steward and lord keeper of the privy seal under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was created 1st earl of Bedford in 1550, and had a part in arranging the marriage of Mary I to Philip II of Spain.
		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, 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.
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	John RUSSELL (1° E. Bedford)
		John Russell came from a Dorset family of moderate standing whose estates had been acquired gradually during the 14th and 15th centuries from the profits of trade and the fortunes of marriage.
		Russell distinguished himself during the suppression of the Lincolnshire rebellion and the Pilgrimage of Grace, and as he grew closer towards Cromwell he was clearly a candidate for high office.
		Bedford's hold on the south-west was temporarily shaken when Mary came to the throne, but once he regained her trust his authority revived and was not to be challenged.
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	Russell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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, 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.
		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).
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	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Summary
		John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792–28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
		The Russell family had been one of the principal Whig dynasties in England since the 17th century, and were among the richest handful of aristocratic landowning families in the country, but as a younger son of the 6th Duke of Bedford he was not in line to inherit the family estates.
		Russell was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Amberley, of Amberley in the County of Gloucester and of Ardsalla in the County of Meath, and Earl Russell, of Kingston Russell in the County of Dorset, in 1861.
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	Russell and De Russell
		"Theobald Russell of Yaverland in Isle of Wight, Kingston Russell in Dorset, and Horsington in Somerset.
		Russell's appointment as a Gentleman of the privy chamber (He was made a fully Privy Councillor in 1538 and retained as such by Edward VI) was confirmed by Henry VIII, his junior by some six years.
		Russell distinguished himself during the suppression of the Lincolnshire rebellion (in 1536 he was Joint Commissioner to try Insurgents in County of Lincoln) and the Pilgrimage of Grace, and as he grew closer towards Cromwell he was clearly a candidate for high office.
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	Ancestor Hunting
		The ambition of the researchers in the Russell genealogy was to link Henry Russell, Member of Parliament for Weymouth in 1425, great-grandfather of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, with the descendants of Hugh de Rosel, who was alive in 1064.
		In the case of the Russells, York Herald Þrst provided John with a father, by identifying him with a John who was the son of the Odo Russell who occurs on the Patent Roll of 14 John.
		To account for the wholly dissimilar arms of the Bedford Russells, their coat was linked to the Bertrand coat, and Hugh du Rozel was given the family name of Bertrand (long before heraldry as it is understood today was in use).
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	Duke of Bedford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		The courtesy title of the Duke of Bedford's eldest son and heir is Marquess of Tavistock.
		John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389-1435)
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	John Russell
		John Russell, the third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was born in London on 17th August, 1792.
		In 1836 Lord Russell was responsible for several new reforms including the establishment of the civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, and the legalisation of the marriage of dissenters in their own chapels.
		Russell also presented plans to reform the 1834 Poor Law but before these measures could be passed the death of William IV resulted in a dissolution of parliament.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRrussell.htm (1904 words)

	Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl — FactMonster.com
		Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, 1792–1878, British statesman; younger son of the 6th duke of Bedford, known most of his life as Lord John Russell.
		Russell led the opposition during the second ministry (1841–46) of Sir Robert Peel and, following the repeal of the corn laws (which Russell supported), succeeded him as prime minister.
		Russell served (1852–55) in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government and represented (1855) England at Vienna in an unsuccessful conference to end the Crimean War.
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	1ST EARL JOHN RUSSELL ... - Online Information article about 1ST EARL JOHN RUSSELL ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		peerage, and Lord John Russell was proposed as the spokesman of the ministry in the Commons (Nov.
		October 1865) Earl Russell was once more summoned to form a cabinet, but the defeat of his ministry in the following June on the Reform Bill which they had introduced was followed by his retirement from public life.
		Correspondence of John, 4th Duke of Bedford (1842-46, 3 vols.), Memorials and Correspondence of C.
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	William FITZWILLIAM (Sir)
		On his mother’s side Fitzwilliam was related to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, a circumstance to which he owed his introduction to Edward VI.
		Fitzwilliam is said to have been brought up in the household of Sir John Russell, and to have been preferred by the earl to his first office, the keepership of the King's bench prison: he does not appear to have progressed from this to become marshal, although he sought to do so under Elizabeth.
		He disliked the expedition of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex; he had a further quarrel with Fitton, and after a serious illness he was allowed to resign his office.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/WilliamFitzwilliam.htm (812 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, succeeded as Lord Warden of the Stannaries (-1580) by Francis Russell (c.
		1532-1593); succeeded by Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford as Justice in Eyre south of the Trent; Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon was appointed Lord Chamberlain in 1585
		1527), 2nd Earl of Bedford (1555-); succeeded by Edward Russell (1572-1627) as 3rd Earl of Bedford; succeeded as Justice in Eyre south of the Trent by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (-d.
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	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (August 18, 1792 - May 28, 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a Whig politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
		A younger son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell entered parliament as a Whig in 1813.
		Russell's government also saw conflict with his headstrong Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, whose belligerence and support for continental revolution were frequently embarrassing.
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	John Russell Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The English statesman John Russell, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792-1878), was the author of the Great Reform Bill of 1832 and one of the founders of the British Liberal party.
		John Russell was born on Aug. 18, 1792, in London.
		Russell served as foreign secretary for a few months in 1852-1853 in Lord Aberdeen's coalition and as colonial secretary for 5 months in Palmerston's Cabinet in 1855.
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	thePeerage.com - Katherine Manners and others
		She was the daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland and Eleanor Paston.
		She married, secondly, Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland and Eleanor Paston, before 1563.
		She married, thirdly, Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, son of Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford and Anne Sapcote, on 25 June 1566.
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	John Russell, 1st earl of Bedford - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Bedford, John Russell, 1st earl of see Russell, family.
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	John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of James Russell and his wife Alice Wyse, and was born about 1485 at Long Bredy, Dorset.
		Russell, however, remained a great magnate in the western counties, and obtained the office of Lord High Admiral in 1540.
		(The previous holder, the Earl of Southampton, replaced Cromwell as Lord Privy Seal.) In 1542, Russell himself resigned the Admiralty and succeeded to the Privy Seal on the death of Southampton.
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	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford was born in 1485 in Kingston Russell, Dorset, England.
		She married, thirdly, Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, son of James Russell and Alice Wyse, in 1526.
		John, 1st Baron St. John of Bletso+ b.
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	Ancestor Hunting
		In the case of the Russells, York Herald first provided John with a father, by identifying him with a John who was the son of the Odo Russell who occurs on the Patent Roll of 14 John.
		To account for the wholly dissimilar arms of the Bedford Russells, their coat was linked to the Bertrand coat, and Hugh de Rozel was given the family name of Bertrand (long before heraldry as it is understood today was in use).
		In 1504, John Spencer, an innovative and entrepreneurial yeoman, considered himself sufficiently successful to justify petitioning for a grant of arms.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-02/moa-01.html (1873 words)

	Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies — Infoplease.com
		Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of
		Bohun, Humphrey V de, 2d earl of Hereford and 1st earl of Essex
		Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st earl of
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	Sir Thomas Wyat
		English poet and statesman, elder son of Henry Wyat, or Wiat, afterwards knighted, and his wife Anne, daughter of John Skinner of Reigate, Surrey, was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent, in 1503.
		The family records (in the possession of the Earl of Romney) relate that during his imprisonment he was saved from starvation by a cat that brought him pigeons.
		In 1526 he was sent with Sir Thomas Cheney to congratulate Francis I on his safe return from Spain; in 1527 he accompanied Sir John Russell, afterwards 1st Earl of Bedford, on an embassy to the papal court.
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	NPG 4165; King Edward VI and the Pope (includes John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford; Thomas Cranmer; King Edward VI; King ...
		John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1486?-1556), Lord High Admiral.
		John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1502?-1553), Lord Protector of Edward VI.
		Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506?-1552), 'The Protector'; statesman.
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	CalendarHome.com - 1485 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		August 22 - Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.
		John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (died 1555)
		John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
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	Chenies Manor - The House
		The original manor house was extended in the 16th century by John Russell, later 1st Earl of Bedford, to whom the property passed through marriage.
		In 1627, the 4th Earl of Bedford relocated the principal family seat from Chenies to Woburn Abbey.
		It remained part of the Russell estate until the 1950s when the estate was bought by the present owners, the MacLeod Matthews family, who commenced a long process of restoration which continues to this day.
	www.cheniesmanorhouse.co.uk /the_house.htm (338 words)

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