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Hace 3 días · John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, second son of Wriothesley, the second Duke, was born in 1710 and succeeded his brother in the dukedom in 1732. He joined the party hostile to Walpole. In 1744 he became first lord of the admiralty in Pelham's ministry and was very successful.
Hace 5 horas · Signature. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was ...
Hace 5 días · 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 5 días · Francis, the fourth Earl (1593–1641), was probably the most remarkable of the Bedfords; in the words of one of the Russells' nineteenth-century stewards, 'he lived in advance of his time altogether'. (fn. 8) The first Earl had acquired the family's great estates, but it was the fourth Earl's energy and acumen—manifested in his rebuilding of Wobu...
Hace 3 días · Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds: 1713–1789 1749 564 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford: 1710–1771 1749 Secretary of State for the Southern Department 565 Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle: 1702–1754 1749 Ambassador to France 566 John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville: 1690–1763 1749 Former Northern Secretary 567 Prince Edward: 1739 ...
Hace 5 días · Four penetrating studies of leading 17th-century political figures, John Pym, John Hampden, Sir John Eliot and Francis Russell fourth earl of Bedford, displayed once again his mastery of the detailed politics of the period, while never losing a sense of the humanity, dignity and sometimes inadequacy of those whose lives and struggles ...
Hace 3 días · Russell Bedford International is a global network of professional services firms providing accounting, audit, tax and consulting services. Ranked as one of the world's top accounting networks, we have some 700 partners, 6500 staff and 350 offices in more than 90 countries.
