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Hace 2 días · During the eighteenth century there were four Dukes of Bedford. In 1694 the fifth Earl had been raised to the dukedom as a mark of honour for his eldest son, William, Lord Russell, who had been beheaded in 1683 for his supposed complicity in the Rye House Plot.
Hace 5 días · His heir apparent, Sir William Russell, now Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, intervened and compelled the Earl, 'upon deliberate and good advise', to bind himself 'in many Thowsand pounds for the not selling awaie anie more'. It was for this reason that in 1610 he refused Lord Salisbury's pressing offer to buy Covent Garden.
Hace 7 horas · 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 educated ...
Hace 5 días · 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 auspices.
Hace 7 horas · On Lord Birdwood’s death in 2015, the pair were able to acquire Russell House and to reunite the whole property as a single dwelling. They have systematically restored it, including re-roofing the gazebo where the little first-floor sitting room still gives interesting glimpses through Gothic glazing bars of the road below.
Hace 5 días · Conrad Russell, the fifth Earl Russell, historian of 16th- and 17th-century Britain, was the younger son of the mathematician, philosopher, political activist and Nobel prize winner Bertrand Russell.
Hace 2 días · Lord John Russell succeeds Herbert as Colonial Secretary. Sir Charles Wood succeeds Sir James Graham as First Lord of the Admiralty. R.V. Smith succeeds Wood as President of the Board of Control; July 1855 – Sir William Molesworth succeeds Russell as Colonial Secretary. Molesworth's successor as First Commissioner of Works is not in the Cabinet.
