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Francis Russell (January 12, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts – March 20, 1989 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) was an American author specializing in American history and historical figures. Russell is best known for his book on Warren G. Harding, The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
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Francis Russell, II conde de Bedford, KG ( c. 1527 - 28 de julio de 1585) de Chenies en Buckinghamshire y de Bedford House en Exeter, Devon, fue un noble, militar y político inglés. Fue padrino del marino Sir Francis Drake . Sirvió como Lord Teniente de Devon (1584-5). Primeros años de vida.
12 de dic. de 2022 · This essay discusses the reading records of Francis Russell, 1587–1641, later 4th Earl of Bedford. Drawing from a previously unstudied manuscript notebook from 1620 to 1622, the author demonstrates the importance of Russell's private archive at Woburn Abbey as an important repository for political, literary, and cultural history in the early ...
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Francis was the son of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford and Anne Sapcote. He was educated at King's Hall, Cambridge and accompanied his father, to sit in the House of Commons. He represented Buckinghamshire in parliament in 1545–47 and 1547–52. In 1547 he was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He assisted to quell the risi...
When Elizabeth I of England ascended the throne in November 1558 the Earl of Bedford, as Russell had been since 1555, became an active figure in public life. He was made a privy councillor, and was sent on diplomatic errands to Charles IX of France and Mary, Queen of Scots. From February 1564 to October 1567 he was governor of Berwick and warden of...
His first wife was Margaret (née St John) Gostwick (1533–1562), a widow of Sir John Gostwick. Margaret was a daughter of Sir John St John (great-grandson of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso) and Margaret Waldegrave (a daughter of Sir William Waldegrave). Together, they were the parents of four sons and three daughters: 1. Lady Anne Russell (1548–1603),...
Prince, Hugh C. (2008). Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500. Hertfordshire Publications.Tittler, Robert; Richards, Judith (2014). The Reign of Mary I. Routledge.tudorplace.com.ar[unreliable source]Accessed 27 October 2007Richardson, Douglas, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris. Plantagenet Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Royal ancestry series.Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2004. Accesse...- c. 1527
- John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Anne Sapcote
- 28 July 1585 (aged 57–58), London
Francis Russell, 2nd earl of Bedford (born c. 1527—died July 18, 1585, London) was a Protestant supporter of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Only son of the 1st earl, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Lord Russell in 1552.
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A Journal of the Plague. The 1918 Influenza. Francis Russell. View of a Church from a Graveyard, ca. 1860s–1880s. Courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Though it now seems merely an episode in the last year of the First World War, the influenza of the autumn of 1918 was one of the three greatest outbreaks of disease in history.
22 de mar. de 1989 · Francis Russell, a historian and prolific writer whose publication in 1968 of a biography of Warren G. Harding became a cause celebre when relatives of the former President succeeded in...
