A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Russell, Lady Elizabeth
RUSSELL, LADY ELIZABETH,
Daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, married Sir Thomas Hobbey, and afterwards Lord John Russell, son and heir of Francis, second Earl of Bedford. She was a woman of well-cultivated mind, and translated from the French a religious book on the Sacrament. She died about 1600, aged seventy-one. She lived to write the epitaphs in Greek, Latin, and English, for both her husbands.