RUSSELL, JOHN, 6TH DUKE OF BEDFORD, son of Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock (qv); b. 6 Jul 1766; adm. 21 Oct 1776; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 7 Mar 1783; retd. 6 Apr 1785; MP Tavistock 24 Apr 1788-90, 27 Dec 1790 – 2 Mar 1802; succ. brother as 6th Duke of Bedford 2 Mar 1802; took seat, House of Lords 9 Dec 1802; Privy Councillor 12 Feb 1806; Lord Lieut., Ireland 12 Feb 1806 – 19 Apr 1807; KG 25 Nov 1830; supporter of Whig Party both as MP and as peer; rebuilt Covent Garden market 1830; supporter of art, agriculture and natural history; member, Society of Dilettanti 1819; FSA by 1831; Busby Trustee 8 May 1806; m. 1st, 21 Mar 1786 Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng, second dau. of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jun 1803 Lady Georgiana Gordon, fifth dau. of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon; d. 20 Oct 1839. DNB.
RUSSELL, SIR JOHN, BART., son of Charles [John ?] Russell, St. James’s, Westminster, Col. 34th Foot, and Mary Joanna Cutts, dau. of Col. George Revett; b. 31 Oct 1741; adm. Jan 1749/50; KS 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1759 – Dec 1772, Faculty Student 18 Dec 1772 – void by marriage 15 Dec 1774 (sic); BA 1762; MA 1765; succ. cousin as 8th baronet 21 Sep 1757; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 May 1759, called to bar 16 Jun 1766; of Checquers Court, Ellesborough, Bucks.; m. 4 Oct 1774 (IGI) Catherine, dau. of Gen. Hon. George Cary, Skutterskelfe, Yorks.; d. 7 Aug 1783.
RUSSELL, JOHN CLAYTON, son of John Russell, Bradford, Yorks., and Grace ---; b. 12 Dec 1858; adm. 26 Jan 1872 (G); left Christmas 1875; stuff merchant (1881 Census), living at The Knoll, Ripon, Yorks.; Lieut., 3rd West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers; d. 6 May 1931.
RUSSELL, JAMES CHARLES; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1814; left Mar 1820.
RUSSELL, HUBERT JAMES, son of Charles Barrett Russell, Cheriton, Hampshire, barrister, Recorder of South Molton, and Caroline, youngest dau. of Rev. Henry Hubbard, Rector of Cheriton, Hampshire; b. 4 Oct 1869; adm. 31 May 1883 (H); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1887; BA 1890; d. 5 Sep 1898.
Russell, Henry John Dashwood, son of Henry Alexander Russell of Leatherhead, Surrey, and Ada Emily, d. of Henry Dashwood of Gosport, Hants; b. 7 Nov. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left July 1923; farming in NZ 1925; Govt Monopolies Dept. Malacca 1931-42, transf. Singapore 1942; m. 21 Nov. 1931 Evelyn Millicent Violet, sister of Egerton Shelley Walter Hanbury Leigh Hunt (qv); killed in action (Malaya) 13 Feb. 1942.
Henry Neville Dashwood Russell was born at Clapham, South London on the 7th of November 1906 the son of Henry Alexander Russell, a civil servant, and Ada Emily (nee Dashwood) Russell of 29, Deauville Mansions, Clapham Park in London. He was christened at St Saviour’s Church, Pimlico on the 15th of December 1906.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1920 to July 1923. He was a noted swimmer while he was at the school. In 1925 he moved to New Zealand where he worked as a farm hand and lived at 6, Baretta Street, Canterbury. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment, Supplementary Reserve of Officers, on the 26th of June 1929. He was appointed as Probationary Assistant Controller for the Straits Settlements on the 12th of December 1929 and he served with the Government Monopolies Department at Mallacca from 1931 to 1942 and as King’s Harbour Master at Malacca.
He was married at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore on the 21st of November 1931 to Evelyn Millicent Violet (nee Leigh-Hunt) and they had two daughters, one of which was Charmain Anne, born in 1932, and a son, born on the 23rd of February 1935. He was a member of a Malay Volunteer Regiment but following the Japanese invasion of Malaya he rejoined his old Regiment whose 2nd Battalion was serving in the colony. The Battalion was involved in heavy fighting following their invasion of Malaya on the 7th of December 1941 and throughout the retreat which followed. They suffered very heavy casualties during the campaign. On the 20th of December 1941 the survivors of the Battalion were merged with the remainder of the 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the composite British Battalion. After further heavy fighting The Battalion withdrew to Singapore Island where Japanese forces began landing on the 8th of February 1942. Having come under a series of enemy attacks on the 12th of February, on the following day, the 13th of February 1942, the Battalion came under bombing and shelling with the unit protecting its left flank being forced to withdraw during the afternoon. During the day two groups of survivors were detailed to escape by boat from the colony but Henry Russell was not in either group and his fate is unknown.
When the Singapore surrendered two days later, the remaining 265 officers and men of the British Battalion passed into captivity.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Gray’s Inn.
He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery Collective Grave 34 D 15-17.
RUSSELL, HENRY CHARLES, eldest son of Lord Charles James Fox Russell (qv); b. 30 Oct 1842; adm. Jan 1855 (G); left 1860; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Dec 1860, matr. 1861; LLB 1866; ordained deacon 1866, priest 1867 (both York); Curate, Doncaster, Yorks., 1866-9; Vicar of Wentworth, Yorks., 1868-76; Rector of Wollaton, Notts., from 7 Jan 1876; m. 10 Feb 1876 Hon. Leila Louisa Millicent Willoughby, second dau. of Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton; d. 20 Jul 1922.
RUSSELL, HON. GEORGE, brother of Lord James Russell (qv); b.; at school in 1659-60 (Woburn MSS and Busby’s Account Book); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1666, aged 19; MA 4 Feb 1666/7 (incorp. Cambridge 1668); Grand Tour 1669-72; travelling in Barbados and North America 1676-80, wrecked on Irish coast on return; m. 1672 Mary, dau. of Michael Pendleton, London; buried at Chenies, Beds. 27 Jul 1688.
RUSSELL, GEORGE, second son of Lord William Russell (qv); b. 7 Apr 1795; adm. 10 Apr 1806; left 1808; d. 15 Sep 1825.
Russell, Frank Everall, son of Frank Octavius Russell, of London; b. Oct. 8, 1890; adm. Jan. 19, 1905 (A); left Dec. 1905; served with the Australian Expeditionary Force in Great War I.