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Entrance to the Bedford Estate office in Montague Street Looking north across Bloomsbury Square on the Bedford Estate with Bedford House behind, c. 1725, London town house of the Dukes of Bedford Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, statue by Richard Westmacott in Russell Square on the Bedford Estate John Norden's map of 1593 map, showing the Bedford Covent Garden Estate not long after it was ...
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, KG (c. 1527 – 28 July 1585) of Chenies in Buckinghamshire and of Bedford House in Exeter, Devon, was an English nobleman, soldier, and politician. He was a godfather to the Devon-born sailor Sir Francis Drake .
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641) was an English nobleman and politician. He built the square of Covent Garden , with the piazza and St Paul's Church , employing Inigo Jones as his architect. [ 1 ]
Francis Russell, eldest son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (died 1767), by his wife, Elizabeth (died 1768), daughter of William Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, was born at Woburn Abbey and baptized on 20 August 1765 at St Giles in the Fields.
This property passed to Bridget Hussey, the widow of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, and was sold. [5] Bedford House was built in the years before 1590 for the young Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, and wife, Lucy, Russell, Countess of Bedford. Only small dwellings and stables are known to have existed on the site previously.
Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford; Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote; George William John Repton by Camille Silvy. Known as Hastings, the 9th Duke was born in Curzon Street, London, the son of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Lady William Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford. [1]
The school was bequeathed $40 million from the Bedford estate. Yes, $40 million. Yes, $40 million. A donation of this magnitude will change the lives of the handful of students who attend the all ...
Francis's widow died in 1601, when living at Woburn Abbey, and her will listed Chenies as unfurnished and unoccupied. Francis was succeeded by his grandson Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, who was part of the abortive Essex Rebellion against the queen led by the Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. As a result, he was fined £10,000 and ...