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Francis Russell, marchese di Tavistock (Armagh, 27 settembre 1739 – Woburn, 22 marzo 1767), è stato un politico britannico
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Russell was born on 27 September 1739. He was the eldest son of the John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford and, his second wife, Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower. His father was a prominent Whig statesman and peer who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Privy Seal, Lord President of the Council, and British Ambassador to France. His only sibling w...
From 1759 to 1761, he sat in the Irish House of Commons as Whig Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough and then in the British House of Commons for Bedfordshire until 1767. He was considered a close friend of Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham. In 1759 his father the Duke, as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, commissioned the 19-year-old Marquess ...
On 8 June 1764, he married Lady Elizabeth Keppel (1739–1768), the youngest child of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle. Lady Elizabeth had been one of ten bridesmaids to Queen Charlotte at her wedding to George III. They had three sons: 1. Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford(1765–1802), who never married. 2. John Russell, 6th Duke of Be...
Biografia. Francis Russell era il figlio maggiore di Francis Russell, marchese di Tavistock, figlio a sua volta di John Russell, IV duca di Bedford, e di sua moglie, Elizabeth Keppel, figlia a sua volta di William Keppel, II conte di Albemarle .
Fu nominato Lord Luogotenente di Bedfordshire nel 1859, incarico che mantenne fino alla sua morte nel 1861. Morì nel 1861, all'età di 73 anni, e fu sepolto a Chenies, nel Buckinghamshire . Il duca di Bedford nel 1860.
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Francis Russell (27 settembre 1739 - 22 marzo 1767), Marchese di Tavistock, è un politico e aristocratico britannico. Biografia. È il figlio maggiore di John Russell (4 ° duca di Bedford). Come apparente erede, portava il titolo di cortesia di marchese di Tavistock.
Marquess of Tavistock from 1802 to 1839. Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford was born on 13 May 1788 at Pall Mall, St. James's, London and died at the family home of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire on 14 May 1861. He was buried at Chenies in Buckinghamshire.
