• Lord William Russell (20 August 1767 – 5 May 1840) was a member of the British aristocratic Russell family and longtime Member of Parliament. He did little...
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    William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683) was an English Country Party politician and nobleman. He was a leading member of the...
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    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served...
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    Sir William Anthony Bowater Russell (born 15 April 1965) is a British financier who served as the 692nd Lord Mayor of the City of London from 2019 to 2021...
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  • William Russell may refer to: William Russell (bishop of Sodor) (before 1300–1374), Cistercian prelate from Isle of Man William Russell (bishop of North...
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    was a Swiss-born valet who was convicted of murdering his employer Lord William Russell in London, England, and hanged outside Newgate Prison on 6 July 1840...
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    Secretary for Ireland, Lord Stanley, however, preferred coercive measures. The cabinet was divided, and when Lord John Russell drew attention in the House...
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  • diplomat Lord Odo Russell (1829–1884), British diplomat Lord William Russell (1767–1840), MP for Surrey and Tavistock Lord Arthur Russell (1825–1892), MP...
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    La Hogue during the Nine Years' War. Russell went on to be First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of William III and then held the office twice again...
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    Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC (10 November 1832 – 10 August 1900) was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice...
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    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public...
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  • Major-General Lord George William Russell GCB (8 May 1790 – 16 July 1846) was a British soldier, politician and diplomat. He was the second son of the...
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    Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG (1 November 1680 – 26 May 1711) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of William Russell, Lord Russell...
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    William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died 9 August 1613) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and knight. His birthdate is uncertain...
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    English noblewoman, heiress, and author. Her second husband was William, Lord Russell, who was implicated in the Rye House Plot and later executed. A...
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    Gordon. Lord William Russell (1767–1840), who married Lady Charlotte Villiers, eldest daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey. Lord Tavistock...
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    William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford KG PC (August 1616 – 7 September 1700) was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from...
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    in 1694 Francis Russell, Lord Russell (1638–1679), eldest son of the 5th Earl, died unmarried Rt. Hon. William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), second...
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    Lord President of the Council from 1716 to 1718 and 1725 to 1729. He married The Hon. Rachel Russell (1674–1725), daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell...
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    of John Russell, third son of Lord William Russell, third son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, eldest son and heir of John Russell, 4th Duke...
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    The Trial of William Lord Russell in 1683 is an 1825 history painting by the British artist George Hayter. It is held at Ferens Art Gallery, in Kingston...
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  • First Lord John Markham, First Naval Lord Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt, Naval Lord Lord William Russell The Lord Kensington Thomas Fremantle, Naval Lord William...
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    John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, KG, PC, FSA (6 July 1766 – 20 October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a British Whig politician who...
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    three sons of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Elizabeth Anne Rawdon. His elder brother was Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford and his...
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  • politician. Russell was the son of Commander John Russell, third son of Lord William Russell, and Sophia Coussmaker, Baroness de Clifford. He was baptised on...
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    Russell Benjamin Harrison (August 12, 1854 – December 13, 1936), also known as Russell Lord Harrison, was a businessman, lawyer, diplomat, and politician...
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    "William Wyndham Greenville, Lord Grenville" . Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Barker, George Fisher Russell (1890)...
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    Lord Charles James Fox Russell (10 February 1807 – 29 June 1894), was a British soldier and Whig politician. Russell was the third son of John Russell...
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    British Museum. Retrieved 10 June 2019. Georgiana Blakiston (1973). Lord William Russell and his wife, 1815-1846. Scholarly Resources. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8420-1681-0...
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    against the cutting of agricultural wages. After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, William IV was forced to appoint another Whig to replace...
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