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Hace 1 día · The Bedford Estate was expanded by the inheritance of the former manor of Bloomsbury to the immediate north of Covent Garden following the marriage of William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683) (third son of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire) to Rachel Wriothesley, heiress of Bloomsbury, younger of ...
Hace 4 días · From 1627 to 1641. The development of Covent Garden was the first planned layout of any consideration in the expansion of London beyond the City. But its historical importance depends not so much upon its having been the first such development as upon the aesthetic and practical lessons which it provided for those future builders in the ...
9 de may. de 2024 · House / Dynasty: Russell family. Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford (born 1593—died May 9, 1641, London) was the 4th earl of Bedford, the only son of William, Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, who became earl of Bedford by the death of his cousin Edward, the 3rd earl, in May 1627.
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14 de may. de 2024 · John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale: 1616–1682 1672 473 Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester: 1629–1700 1672 Later Duke of Beaufort 474 Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans: d. 1684 1672 475 William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford: 1613–1700 1672 Later Duke of Bedford 476 Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington: 1618–1685 1672 477
Hace 20 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 4 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 2 días · With Bedford are associated also the names of various Nonconformist divines and writers; John Child was born here in 1638, as was William Mather (fl. 1695), at one time a well-known Quaker. Bedford is also the birth-place of Francis Oakley (1719–94), one of the first Moravian ministers in this town, and of Samuel Palmer, the Nonconformist biographer, who was educated at the Grammar School.
