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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served...

John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford KG PC JP (c. 1485 – 14 March 1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral...

titles. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (1865–1931) Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell...

also a grandson of the philosopher Bertrand Russell and a great-great-grandson of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, a Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC (1653 – 26 November 1727) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior...

served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents. He was the father of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. Bedford was...

father's wishes), to Anne, the sole heir of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. In April 1640, Russell was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Tavistock in...

sailor Sir Francis Drake. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1584-5). Francis was the son of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford and Anne Sapcote. He was...

the elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who was twice prime minister of Britain. The...

Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (1527–1585), son of the 1st Earl Edward Russell, Lord Russell (1551–1572), eldest son of the 2nd Earl John Russell, 3rd...

Lord William Russell (20 August 1767 – 5 May 1840) was a member of the British aristocratic Russell family and longtime Member of Parliament. He did little...

William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died 9 August 1613) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and knight. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland...

he was made Lord Lieutenant of Devon and on 3 May 1627: 258  became Earl of Bedford on the death of his cousin Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford. In...

Anne Carr, was a wealthy English noblewoman, and the wife of William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford, a peer and soldier during the English Civil War, who after...

William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683) was an English Country Party politician and nobleman. He was a leading member of the...

Gertrude Leveson-Gower (died 1794), daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower. In 1749, John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, was made a Knight of the...

the United Kingdom and served as such twice. Due to Lord John's elevation to peerage as Earl Russell in 1861, his son and heir apparent became known as...

Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG (1 November 1680 – 26 May 1711) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of William Russell, Lord Russell...

his writings later influenced Russell's life. Russell's paternal grandfather, Lord John Russell, later 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), had twice been Prime...

George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville, 1st Baroness Buckhurst, in 1844. Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (1825–1892), the Whig...