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William Russell, Lord Russell. (1639-1683), Politician; MP for Tavistock and Bedfordshire. Sitter associated with 29 portraits. Russell was the grandson of the disgraced Earl and Countess of Somerset, who had scandalised the Jacobean Court. He was a Whig politician, known as 'The Patriot', who defended religious nonconformity, a limited ...
William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683) was an English politician. He was a leading member of the Country Party , forerunners of the Whigs , who during the reign of King Charles II , laid the groundwork for opposition in the House of Commons to the accession of an openly Catholic king in Charles's brother James .
My lord Russell broke the ice, took notice of the difficulties they had hitherto been involved in, the proper expedient the King had contrived to extricate them out, and that now he conceived their proper work was to choose their Speaker, and proposed one Serjeant [William] Gregory as a proper person for that employment.
William Russell ist der Name folgender Personen: William Russell, 1. Baronet (of Chippenham) (1575–1654), englischer Politiker. William Russell, 1. Baronet (of Wytley) (1602–1669), englischer Politiker. William Russell, 1. Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), englischer Adliger und Soldat. William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), englischer ...
Discover life events, stories and photos about Lord William Russell (1639–1683) of Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
The work portrays the trial at the Old Bailey in London of William Russell, Lord Russell, a Whig who was convicted of treason for his alleged part in the Rye House Plot of 1683 to assassinate Charles II and his brother and heir James, Duke of York. The painting portrays Russell's trial and conviction, shortly before his execution.
21 de jul. de 2014 · 1683: Lord Russell, Whig martyr. On this date in 1683 at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London the great Whig parliamentarian William, Lord Russell was beheaded with a legendary want of dexterity by Jack Ketch. The third son of the Earl (later Duke) of Bedford, Lord Russell emerged from a decade of comfortable obscurity in the Parliament’s back ...
