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Paternal Family Tree: Russell
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Child 1656-1719
Before 13 Aug 1703 [his father] Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford (age 22) and [his mother] Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford (age 21) were married. She by marriage Duchess Bedford.
On 30 Sep 1710 John Russell 4th Duke Bedford was born to Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford (age 29) and Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford (age 28) at Streatham, Surrey.
On 26 May 1711 [his father] Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford (age 30) died. His son [his brother] Wriothesley Russell 3rd Duke Bedford (age 3) succeeded 3rd Duke Bedford, 3rd Marquess Tavistock, 7th Earl Bedford, 7th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 5th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 3rd Baron Howland of Streatham.
On 29 Jul 1724 [his mother] Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford (age 42) died.
On 11 Oct 1731 John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 21) and Diana Spencer Duchess Bedford (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Anne Churchill Countess Sunderland. He the son of Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford and Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford. They were third cousins.
On 23 May 1732 [his brother-in-law] Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough (age 25) and Elizabeth Trevor Duchess of Marlborough (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess of Sunderland. He the son of Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Anne Churchill Countess Sunderland.
On 23 Oct 1732 [his brother] Wriothesley Russell 3rd Duke Bedford (age 24) died at A Coruña. He was buried at Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies. His brother John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 22) succeeded 4th Duke Bedford, 4th Marquess Tavistock, 8th Earl Bedford, 8th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 6th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 4th Baron Howland of Streatham. [his wife] Diana Spencer Duchess Bedford (age 22) by marriage Duchess Bedford.
On 06 Nov 1732 [his son] John Russell was born to John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 22) and [his wife] Diana Spencer Duchess Bedford (age 22).
On 24 Oct 1733 Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (age 52) died. Her nephew [his brother-in-law] Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough (age 26) succeeded 3rd Duke Marlborough, 3rd Marquess of Blandford, 3rd Earl of Marlborough, 3rd Baron Churchill of Sandridge in Hertfordshire. Elizabeth Trevor Duchess of Marlborough (age 20) by marriage Duchess Marlborough.
On 27 Sep 1735 [his wife] Diana Spencer Duchess Bedford (age 25) died at Southampton House.
In Apr 1737 John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 26) and Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford were married. She by marriage Duchess Bedford. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 42) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford and Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford.
In 1739 Charles Fitzroy 2nd Duke Grafton (age 55) supported the creation of the Foundling Hospital. He sat on that charity's original Court of Governors with such fellow Governors as John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (age 28), Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (age 39), and Micajah Perry, a Lord Mayor of London.
On 27 Sep 1739 [his son] Francis Russell was born to John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 28) and [his wife] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford.
In Jan 1743 [his daughter] Caroline Russell Duchess of Marlborough was born to John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 32) and [his wife] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford.
In 1744 [his brother-in-law] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 22) and Elizabeth Fazakerley were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 29 Jun 1744 John Fitzpatrick 1st Earl Upper Ossory (age 25) and [his sister-in-law] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gowran of Bowran in County Kilkenny. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
In 1748 [his brother-in-law] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 26) and Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 24) were married. She the daughter of Scroop Egerton 1st Duke Bridgewater and [his sister] Rachel Russell Duchess Bridgewater (age 41). He the son of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 53) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
In 1749 King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 65) created new Garter Knights as follows:
560th Johann Adolph Wettin Duke Saxe Weissenfels,
561st King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 10),
562nd Charles William Frederick "The Wild Margrave" Hohenzollern (age 36),
563rd Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds (age 35),
564th John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 38),
565th William Anne Keppel 2nd Earl Albermarle (age 46),
566th John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville (age 58).
Letters of Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill, Sept. 12, 1749.
I HAVE your two letters to answer of August 15th and 26th, and as far as I see before me, have a great deal of paper, which I don't know how to fill. The town is notoriously empty; at Kensington they have scarce company enough to pay for lighting the candles. The Duke has been for a week with the Duke of Bedford (age 38) at Woburn [Map]: Princess Emily (age 38) remains saying civil things; for example; the second time she saw Madame de Mirepoix, she cried out, "Ah! Madame, vous n'avez pas tant de rouge aujourdhui: la premiere fois que vous etes venue id, vous aviez une quantite horrible" This the Mirepoix herself repeated to me; you may imagine her astonishment,- I mean, as far as your duty will give you leave. I like her extremely; she has a great deal of quiet sense. They try much to be English, and whip into frocks without measure, and fancy they are doing the, fashion. Then she has heard so much of that villainous custom of giving money to the servants of other people, that there is no convincing her that women of fashion never give; she distributes with both hands. The Chevalier Lorenzi has dined with me here: I gave him venison, and as he was determined to like it, he protested it was as good as beef. You will be delighted with what happened to him: he was impatient to make his brother's compliments to Mr. Chute, and hearing somebody at Kensington call Mr. Schutz, he easily mistook the sound, and went up to him, and asked him if he had not been at Florence! Schutz with the utmost Hanoverian gravity replied, "Oui, oui, fai ete a Florence, oui, oui: - ma is ou est-il ce Florence?"
On 07 May 1751 John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave (age 33) and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave (age 27) were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 56) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of James Waldegrave 1st Earl Waldegrave and Mary Webb Countess Waldegrave. He a great grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 05 Oct 1751 John Fitzpatrick 1st Earl Upper Ossory (age 32) was created 1st Earl Upper Ossory. [his sister-in-law] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 26) by marriage Countess Upper Ossory.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23 Mar 1752. Arlington Street. To Horace Mann 1st Baronet (age 45).
Mr. Conway (age 31) has been arrived this fortnight, or a week sooner than we expected him: but my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) forgives it! He is full of your praises, so you have not sowed your goodness in unthankful ground. By a letter I have just received from you he finds you have missed some from him with Commissions; but he will tell you about them himself I find him much leaner, and great cracks in his beauty. Your picture is arrived, which he says is extremely like you. Mr. Chute (age 51) cannot bear it; says it wants your countenance and goodness; that it looks bonny and Irish. I am between both, and should know it; to be sure, there is none of your wet-brown-paperness in it, but it has a look with which I have known you come out of your little room, when Richcourt has raised your ministerial French, and you have writ to England about it till you were half fuddled. Au reste, it is gloriously coloured-will Astley promise to continue to do as well? or has he, like all other English painters, only laboured this to get reputation, and then intends to daub away to get money?
The year has not kept the promise of tranquillity that it made you at Christmas; there has been another parliamentary bustle. The Duke of Argyll (age 69)299 has drawn the ministry into accommodating him with a notable job, under the notion of buying for the King from the mortgagees the forfeited estates in Scotland, which are to be colonized and civilized. It passed with some inconsiderable hitches through the Commons; but in the Lords last week the Duke of Bedford (age 41) took it up warmly, and spoke like another Pitt.300 He attacked the Duke of Argyll on favouring Jacobites, and produced some flagrant instances, which the Scotch Duke neither answered nor endeavoured to excuse, but made a strange, hurt, mysterious, contemptuous, incoherent speech, neither in defence of the bill nor in reply to the Duke of Bedford, but to my Lord Bath (age 68), who had fallen upon the ministry for assuming a dispensing power, in suffering Scotland to pay no taxes for the last five years. This speech, which formerly would have made the House of Commons take up arms, was strangely flat and unanimated, for want of his old chorus. Twelve lords divided against eighty that were for the bill. The Duke, who was present, would not vote; none of his people had attended the bill in the other House, and General Mordaunt (age 55) (by his orders, as it is imagined) spoke against it. This concludes the session: the King goes to Hanover on Tuesday, he has been scattering ribands of all colours, blue ones [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Garter] on Prince Edward (age 12), the young Stadtholder, and the Earls of Lincoln (age 31), Winchilsea (age 62), and Cardigan (age 39);301 a green one [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle] on Lord Dumfries;302 a red [Note. Order of the Bath] on Lord Onslow (age 39).303
The world is still mad about the Gunnings; the Duchess of Hamilton (age 18) was presented on Friday; the crowd was so great, that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there. Dr. Sacheverel never made more noise than these two beauties [Note. Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll and Maria Gunning Countess Coventry (age 19)].
There are two wretched women that just now are as much talked of, a Miss Jefferies1 and a Miss Blandy (age 32)2; the one condemned for murdering her uncle, the other her father. Both their stories have horrid circumstances; the first, having been debauched by her uncle; the other had so tender a parent, that his whole concern while he was expiring, and knew her for his murderess, was to save her life. It is shocking to think what a shambles this country is grown! Seventeen were executed this morning, after having murdered the turnkey on Friday night, and almost forced open Newgate. One is forced to travel, even at noon, as if one was going to battle.
Mr. Chute is as much yours as ever, except in the article of pen and ink. Your brother transacts all he can for the Lucchi, as he has much more weight there304 than Mr. Chute. Adieu!
Note 299. Archibald Campbell, Duke of argyll, formerly Earl of Isla.
Note 300. For Lord Hardwicke's notes of this speech, see Parl. Hist. vol. xiv. P. 1235.-E.
Note 301. George Brudenell, fourth Earl of cardigan, created Duke of Montagu in 1776; died in 1790.-D.
Note 302. William Crichton Dalrymple (age 53), fourth Earl [Note. Mistake. He was 5th Earl] of Dumfries in Scotland, in right of his mother. He also became, in 1760, fourth Earl of stair, and died in 1768.-D.
Note 303. George, third Lord Onslow; died in 1776.-D.
Note 304. With the late Mr. Whithed's brothers, who scrupled paying a small legacy and annuity to his mistress and child.
Note 1. Elizabeth Jeffries was to have received her uncle's estate but as a consequence of her bad behaviour he stated he would change his will. She, with accomplices, murdered her uncle. She was executed at a temporary gibbet at the Sixth Milestone Epping Forest on 28 Mar 1572.
Note 2. Mary Blandy who was found guilty of poisoning her father and executed on 06 Apr 1752.
On 25 Dec 1754 [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 60) died. His son [his brother-in-law] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 33) succeeded 2nd Earl Gower, 3rd Baron Gower, 7th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire. Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 31) by marriage Countess Gower.
Before Aug 1760 Richard Vernon (age 34) and [his sister-in-law] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 35) were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
In 1762 [his son-in-law] George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough (age 22) and [his daughter] Caroline Russell Duchess of Marlborough (age 18) were married. She by marriage Duchess Marlborough. She the daughter of John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 51) and [his wife] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford. He the son of [his former brother-in-law] Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough and Elizabeth Trevor Duchess of Marlborough. They were fourth cousins.
On 13 Apr 1763 James Waldegrave 2nd Earl Waldegrave (age 48) died. His brother John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave (age 44) succeeded 3rd Earl Waldegrave, 4th Baron Waldegrave Chewton Somerset, 7th Baronet Waldegrave of Hever Castle. [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave (age 39) by marriage Countess Waldegrave.
On 14 Apr 1763 [his sister-in-law] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 38) died.
On 08 Jun 1764 [his son] Francis Russell (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Keppel (age 25) were married. She the daughter of William Anne Keppel 2nd Earl Albermarle and Anne Lennox Countess Albermarle (age 60). He the son of John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 53) and [his wife] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford. She a great granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
In 1768 [his brother-in-law] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 46) and Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford were married. She by marriage Countess Gower. She the daughter of Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway (age 74) and Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway (age 59). He the son of [his father-in-law] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
Around 1770 Thomas Gainsborough (age 42). Portrait of John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 59).
On 05 Jan 1771 John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 60) died at Woburn, Bedfordshire. He was buried at Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies. His grandson [his grandson] Francis Russell 5th Duke Bedford (age 5) succeeded 5th Duke Bedford, 5th Marquess Tavistock, 9th Earl Bedford, 9th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 7th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 5th Baron Howland of Streatham.
On 01 Jul 1794 [his former wife] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baron Russell 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret St John Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Duke Bedford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Clinton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ursula Stourton Baroness Clinton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandFather: William Russell 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Kerr 10th of Ferniehirst
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Ker 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Carr Countess of Bedford 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stumpe
Father: Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 1st Earl of Southampton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Cheney Countess Southampton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Browne Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Radclyffe 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Vernon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Vernon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vernon Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
GrandMother: Rachel Wriothesley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Daniel de Massue Seigneur de Rouvigny
Great x 1 Grandmother: Rachel Massue Countess Southampton
John Russell 4th Duke Bedford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
GrandFather: John Howland
Mother: Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Child
Great x 1 Grandfather: Josiah Child
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Roycroft
GrandMother: Elizabeth Child