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BEDFORD. 303 12. William (Russell), Duke of Bedford, &c, only child and h. b. 1 July 1S0U in Grosvenor sq„ and bap. at St. Geo. Ban. wj. Matric. at Oxford (CU. Ch.) 10 May 1887. ' M.P. for Tavistock. 1832-41. He </. uum. 27 May 1872 at Bclgrave square (No. (i) and was bur. at Cheniea. Personality sworn under £800.000 13. Francis otiarles Hastings (Russell), Duke of Bedford (1694), Marquess (if Tavistock (1094), Eaiu, of ,iq-.) Bedford (1550), Baron Russell (1539), Baron Russell of ' Thornhauoh (1868), and Baron Howi.and of Streatham, (1695), 1st cousin and h., being s. and h. of Major Gen. Sir George William Russell, G.C.B., Envoy at Berlin (by Elizabeth Anne, only da. and h. of Hon. John Tlieophilus Rawdon, br. to Francis, 1st MaRQCBSS of Hastings), which Sir G. W. R. was next br. of Francis (10th), 7th Duke and 11th Earl of Bedford abovenamed. He was b. 16 Oct. 1819 in C'nrzon street, lap. there 20 July 1820. and reg. at St. Geo. Han. sq. and at Wbbarn. Entered the army (Scots Fusilier Guards), 1S38, but retired 1844 ; M.P. for Beds, 1S47-72 ; Lt.-Col. of 1st Batt. of Beds Rifle Volunteers, 1860; Hon. Col., 1S72 ; KG. 1 Dee. 18&0 ; Lord Lieut, of Huntingdonshire, 1884. He m. 18 Jan. 1S44 at Withyam, Sussex, Elizabeth, 1st da. of George John (Sackville-West), 5th Earl de la Warr, by Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Bdckhcfrst. She was ,b. 23 Sep. ISIS, and bap. at Bourne, co. Cambridge. Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, 1S80-S3 ; Extra Lady of the Bedchamber, 1S83. V.A. [George William Francis Sackville Russell, styled Marquess of Tavistock, s. and h. an. b. 10 April 1853 in Eaton Place west, Midx , bap. 24 May following at Knole, Kent. Ed. at Balliol Coll., Oxford. B.A. 1874. Sometime student of the Inner Temple, London. M.P. for Bads, April 1875. He m. 24 Oct. 1S76 at the Royal Chapel, Whitehall, Adeline Maria, 2ml and yst. suit. da. and coheir of Charles Sinners (Somers-Cocks), 3rd Eahl Nomers, by Virginia, da. of James Battle of the Bengal Civil Service. She was 4. 24 Sep. 1852.] family Estates.— These, in 18S3, consisted of about 32,300 acres in Beds ; 22,600 in Devon: 18,800 in Cambridgeshire ; 3,400 in Northamptonshire ; 3,100 in Dorset; 3.0(H) in Bucks ; 1,300 in Hunts ; 1,200 in Cornwall ; 150 in Hants and 100 in Herts. Total about 86,300, valued at about .€142,000 a year.— See Bateman's "Great Landowners." Mute. — The large property in or near Loudon, (not returned in the survey of 1S73,) is noi included herein. ( R ) Principal resilience, Woburn Abbey, Beds. BEDFORD, BARONY OF. This was never a Feemgo dignity, but was assumed (together with the Baronies of Mowkrat and Segrave) by William (de Berkeley) Marquess of Berkeley, (so cr. 14SS) who, in right of his mother (Isabel Mowbray) was a co. representative of the latter Baronies. According to Smyth's <: Berkeleys," Vol, ii, p. 99, his style (inter alia) was " Lord of Mowbray ami Sejravc and Huron of Bedford. ( b ) The site of Bedford Castle, the chief seat of the family of Beauohamp as to their Huron// of Bedford, descended to the Marquess, (thro' the marriage of Maud, one of the 3 daughters and coheirs of William de Beauchamp, with Roger de Mowbray, ( ii which Roger his Lordship was but a co-representative) and was by him alienated to Sir Reginald Bray,( c ) since which time the style of " Baron of Bedford " has never been adopted by the Berkeley family. (") Sec post ("Vol. 2) sub. " Buccleuch " [note) as to the relative income of the Duke of Bedford compared with other nobles. ( b ) A practise arose among the early Nobles of adopting the st;/le of various Barouies to which they funded they might be entitled and to which (in some cases) they were actually co heirs. Such was the case in this instance, and. again, later on, in the same family, when Heury, Lord Berkeley (1534-1613) adopted the style of Lord Braosc, in addition to the already assumed titles of Lord Mowbray and Segrave, he being but A co-heir to any of those Barouies; so also many of the Earls of Oxford, 1245-1703, adopted the style of "Lord Bolcbcc," mid subsequently oi " Lord Badlesmerc," &c, See ante p. 215, line 23. " NoU." {') Li-sons' "Beds," p. 10 and 46.