RUSSELL, FRANCIS, 5TH DUKE OF BEDFORD, eldest son of Francis Russell, Marquis of Tavistock (qv); bapt. 23 Jul 1765; succ. grandfather as 5th Duke of Bedford 15 Jan 1771; adm. 30 May 1774; in school list Jul 1779; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 17 Dec 1779; Grand Tour (Italy) 1785-6; took seat, House of Lords 5 Dec 1787; an intimate friend and political supporter of Charles James Fox, who delivered an elegant eulogy to him in the House of Commons 16 Mar 1802; the subject of Burke’s scathing Letter to a noble Lord, 1796; a friend of George, Prince of Wales; a patron of the turf, horses of his winning The Derby 1789, 1791, 1797 and The Oaks 1790, 1791, 1793; interested in agriculture and started a model farm at Woburn; member, Board of Agriculture, from formation 1793, and first President, Smithfield Club 1798; d. unm. 2 mar 1802. DNB.
RUSSELL, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lord William Russell (qv); b. 7 Mar 1793; adm. 21 Jan 1805; left 1810; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1810; Ensign, 2nd Foot 12 Mar 1811; Lieut., 27 Jun 1811; 7th Foot, 18 Jul 1811; Capt., 2nd Garrison Battn., and half-pay 28 Apr 1814; 57th Foot 11 Jul 1816; 52nd Foot, 2 Oct 1817; Brevet Maj. 21 Jan 1819; Maj., 12th Foot 23 Oct 1819; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 4 Oct 1821; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards 7 Jul 1825; served in Peninsular War and at battle of Waterloo, where he was ADC to Prince of Orange; MP Tavistock from 25 Oct 1831; d. unm. 24 Nov 1832.
RUSSELL, FRANCIS, 7TH DUKE OF BEDFORD, eldest son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (qv), and his first wife; b. 13 May 1788; adm. (G); in school lists 1801, 1803; styled Marquis of Tavistock 1802-39; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 10 Feb 1807; MA 1808; MP Peterborough 14 Mar 1809-12, Bedfordshire 1812-32; a prominent member of Whig party in House of Commons; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Howland of Streatham 15 Jan 1833; succ. father as 7th Duke of Bedford 20 Oct 1839; took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords; Privy Councillor 6 Jul 1846; KG 26 Mar 1847; Lord Lieut., Bedfordshire, from 7 Dec 1859; Busby Trustee 1 May 1847; m. 8 Aug 1808 Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, eldest dau. of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington PC GCH, Gen. in the Army; d. 14 Oct 1861.
RUSSELL, FRANCIS, MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK, second son of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, and his second wife Lady Gertrude Leveson Gower, eldest dau. of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv); b. 26 Sep 1739; adm. Jun 1749 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; still at school 6 March 1757 (account for his board with Mrs Hawkins for three months ending that date, Woburn MSS, printed Elizabethan xxi, 261); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 17 Apr 1757, aged 17; MA 1759; MP (I) Armagh 1759-60; Grand Tour (Italy) 1761-2; MP Bedfordshire from 1761; member, Society of Dilettanti 1763; m. 7 Jun 1764 Lady Elizabeth Keppel, sister of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv); d. from effects of a fall from his horse when out hunting 22 Mar 1767.
RUSSELL, CLAUD, son of Claud Russell, Binfield Manor House, Berks., EICS Madras, member of Council, Madras, and Leonora, natural dau. of George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (I) MP, EICS Madras, Governor of Madras; b. 7 May 1779; adm. 16 Jan 1793 (Clapham); Min. Can. 1793; Writer, EICS Bengal 26 Sep 1795; arrived in India 27 Feb 1797; Assistant to Persian Translator; Senior Assistant to Persian Secretary 1801; Secretary to Lieut. -Gov. in Ceded Districts 1802; Collector, Alighar 1804; Judge and Magistrate, Kanpur 1807; Second Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal, Benares 1817; m. 12 Mar 1810 Charlotte, third dau. of Robert Grant, EICS Bengal; d. at Benares 5 May 1817.
RUSSELL, BERTRAND, son of Peter Russell, and Hannah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 30 Apr 1747 (IGI); adm.; KS 1761; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. 1766; BA 1769; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Senior Fellow 1791; ordained priest (Peterborough) 19 Jul 1772; tutor to the sons of General Guy Carleton in Canada; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds.; Vicar of Gainford, co. Durham, from Jul 1791; m. 30 Jul 1795, Susanna (IGI), dau. of Rev. Michael Pope, Charterhouse Square, London; d. 29 Nov 1797.
Russell, Andrew Charles Finch, brother of Francis George Scott Russell (qv); b. 15 Feb. 1952; adm. Sept. 1965 (R); left Dec. 1969; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1970, BA 1973; founded a theatrical lighting co.; member of expedition to Nepal 1976-7; killed in a mountaineering accident in the Himalayas 1 May 1977.
RUSSELL, ---; b.; left Dec 1764. [Note Thomas Russell, son of William Russell, Worcester, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1764, BA 1768, MA 1772].
RUSSELL, ---, son of John Russell, HBM Consul at Lisbon; b.; at school in 1733 (M. E. Matcham, A forgotten John Russell, 1905, 38, 82-3).