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20 de may. de 2024 · John Robert Russell, 13th duke of Bedford was the elder son of the 12th duke (Hastings William Sackville Russell), succeeding to the title in 1953. Faced with paying heavy death duties on his father’s estate, including Woburn Abbey, the 13th duke developed to the full the commercial possibilities.
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19 de may. de 2024 · Covent Garden was only a very small part of the enormous estates acquired by the Russell family during the sixteenth century. The founder of the family fortunes was John Russell (c. 1485– 1555), created Earl of Bedford in 1550, a native of Dorset where his family owned the manor of Berwick.
Hace 3 días · On the demolition of Bedford House, the adjoining lands were laid out for building purposes, and Russell and Bedford Squares were erected about the year 1804, and were named after the Russells, Earls and Dukes of Bedford. For some time previously—as we have already shown in our account of Bloomsbury Square, Great Ormond Street, and other ...
Hace 1 día · When Francis Russell became Earl of Bedford in 1627, more than half of his estate, that is the outer part, was already built on or occupied as garden ground (see page 24). Although the licence to build implies that the Earl contemplated the wholesale redevelopment of the outer part, very little rebuilding took place there under his ...
22 de may. de 2024 · Russell was born on 18 August 1792 into the highest echelons of the British aristocracy, being the third son of John Russell, later 6th Duke of Bedford, and Georgiana Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington.
Hace 5 días · John Russell, 1st Earl Russell was the prime minister of Great Britain (1846–52, 1865–66), an aristocratic liberal and leader of the fight for passage of the Reform Bill of 1832. Russell was the third son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford.
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