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Russell, Lord William (1639–83) (1639–83).Russell, son of the earl of Bedford, entered Parliament in 1660 for Tavistock and became a leader of the Shaftesbury Whigs. In 1678 he moved an address asking Charles II to remove his brother James, duke of York, from his counsels and in 1680 he joined in presenting the duke as a notorious papist.
21 July AD1683. Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public beheading of Lord William Russell in 1683, after he was convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot against King Charles II. The executioner, Jack Ketch, was so inept that he took four axe blows to separate the head from the body.
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, 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 .
[Lord John Russell's Life of William, Lord Russell, &c. 2 vols. in one, 1820. here cited in the 4th edit. 1853; Wiffen's Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell (1833), vol. ii.; Letters of Lady Rachel Russell, from the manuscript, transcribed by Thomas Sellwood, in Woburn Abbey, first published in 1773 with an introduction vindicating the Character of Lord Russell against Sir John ...
Russell came home after his first term ‘with a return of his cold, glandular swellings, etc., etc.’, joining his father and grandfather on the sick list. ‘We are a miserable family’, commented Lord George William. 2 Russell was reckoned to be ‘a very good, although not a first-rate scholar’. 3. Tavistock agonized over the problem of ...
William Russell (29 septembre 1639 – 21 juillet 1683) est un homme politique anglais du parti whig. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Fils de William Russell , 1 er duc de Bedford , il prend parti dans les guerres civiles contre Charles I er .
