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Bedford (right), with George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol in a 1637 painting by Anthony van Dyck. He was the son of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford and his wife Catherine, the daughter and coheir of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos. Russell was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then, in 1635 went to Madrid where he hoped to learn ...
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Bedford was born on 30 September 1710. He was second son of Wriothesley Russell, second duke (1680-1711), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey.
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1680–1711), only son of Rt. Hon. William Russell, Lord Russell (whose attainder had been reversed in 1688) Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford (1708–1732), third son of the 2nd Duke, died without issue; John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710–1771), fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Duke
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, KG, PC, FRS (30 September 1710 – 5 January 1771) was an 18th-century British statesman. Bedford was a leading Whig political figure around the time of the Seven Years' War, and negotiated the Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict in 1763. He was also an early promoter of cricket and a patron of the arts who commissioned many works from artists, most ...
John Russell, 4th duke of Bedford (born Sept. 30, 1710—died Jan. 15, 1771, Woburn, Bedfordshire, Eng.) was the leader of the “Bedford Whigs,” a major parliamentary force in the third quarter of the 18th century in England. Brother of the 3rd Duke (Wriothesley Russell), he joined the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole and in November 1744 ...
He was ennobled as Earl Russell of Kingston Rissell and Viscount Amberley of Amberley and Ardsalla in 1861. Russell was also a published author, producing essays on history and government, a novel, and a play between 1819 and 1832, an edition of letters of the 4th Duke of Bedford between 1842 and 1846, and a biography of Charles James Fox in 1859.
