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Gertrude Russell, Duchess of Bedford (15 February 1715 – 1 July 1794), formerly the Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower, was the second wife of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. She was the eldest daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, and his wife, the former Lady Evelyn Pierrepont. [1] She married the Duke of Bedford on 2 April 1737.
Alternative name(s): Bedford, 4th Duke (Also known as) Surname: Russell: Forenames: John: Gender: Male: Date: 1710-1771: Title: 4th Duke of Bedford: History: First Lord of Admiralty 1744; initiated scheme for landowners to raise volunteer regiments 1745; Southern Secretary 1748; resigned in protest at dismissal of Sandwich 1751; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1756; negotiator of Peace of Paris ...
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. After receiving education at home, Lord John Russell (as the fourth duke was known in youth) went, when nineteen, a tour on the continent in the charge of a tutor.
Russell, John (1710–71), 4th duke of Bedford , politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland, was born 30 September 1710 at the family seat at Streatham, Surrey, England, second son of Wriothesley Russell (d. 1711), 2nd duke of Bedford, and Elizabeth Russell (née Howland).
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford primary name: Russell, John ... John Russell, Duke of Bedford. | Museum number 1920,1211.208 ...
Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford; Lord George William Russell; Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and grandfather of philosopher Bertrand Russell. After Georgiana's early death in October 1801, Bedford married secondly Lady Georgiana, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, in 1803. They had ten children ...
This portrait. The Duke had been a particular patron of Gainsborough from 1755 when he commissioned two landscapes for Woburn. NPG 755 was painted near the end of the Duke’s life, when his eyesight was troublesome and his health poor (he suffered a paralytic stroke in the spring of 1770) [1] and his drawn features are in marked contrast to ...
