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Hace 3 días · The Bedford Estate was expanded by the inheritance of the former manor of Bloomsbury to the immediate north of Covent Garden following the marriage of William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683) (third son of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire) to Rachel Wriothesley, heiress of Bloomsbury, younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas Wriothesley ...
Hace 4 días · Russell, Duke of Bedford. Argent a lion gules and a chief sable with three scallops argent therein . The right of holding a court, a view of frankpledge and a halmote was attached to Willington Manor, and Court Rolls are preserved at the British Museum dated between the years 1463–70, from which it appears that the courts were held twice yearly and the halmote once a year in May.
5 de may. de 2024 · John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford Russell, Duke of Bedford [E., 1694] 1766-1839 Lady Georgiana Gordon , (by marriage) Duchess of Bedford [E., 1694] 1781-1853 12
Hace 4 días · John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, second son of Wriothesley, the second Duke, was born in 1710 and succeeded his brother in the dukedom in 1732. He joined the party hostile to Walpole. In 1744 he became first lord of the admiralty in Pelham's ministry and was very successful.
Hace 2 días · 7 likes, 0 comments - woburnabbeyandgardens on May 24, 2024: "Today marks what would have been the 107th birthday of John (Ian) Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (d.2002).
Hace 5 días · It is long since they have been out to learn to the contrary: left stationary, whilst time has flown by them, like an object in the tranquil side-water of a stream, whilst similar ones are hurried past with the torrent, they still regard Russell and Bedford Squares as their Belgravia—for at every epoch all fashionable parts of town had an ultra-aristocratic neighbourhood.
Hace 2 días · With Bedford are associated also the names of various Nonconformist divines and writers; John Child was born here in 1638, as was William Mather (fl. 1695), at one time a well-known Quaker. Bedford is also the birth-place of Francis Oakley (1719–94), one of the first Moravian ministers in this town, and of Samuel Palmer, the Nonconformist biographer, who was educated at the Grammar School.
