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88 BEDFORD BRAND Russell, 1872-93; matric. at Oxford (Balliol Coll.), 24 Jan. 1877; sometime an officer in the Gren. Guards; served in the Egyptian campaign, 1882; A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India, 1885-86. Lord Lieut, of Middlesex 1898; President of the Zoological Soc. 1899; F.S.A. 14 Mar. 1901; K.G. 30 May 1902; Trustee of the Brit. Museum 1906; F.R.S. 1908; Militia A.D.C. to the King 1908. In politics he is a Liberal Unionist. He m., 2,1 Jan. 1888, Mary du Caurroy, 2nd da. of the Ven. Walter Harry Tribe, Archdeacon of Lahore, by ( — ), da. of Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, G.C.B. [HastingsWilliam Sackville Russell, styled Marquess ofTavistock. since 1893, only s. and h. ap., b. 21 Dec. 1888.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 32,300 acres in Beds; 22,600 in Devon; 18,800 in co. Cambridge; 3,400 in co. North- ants; 3,400 in Dorset; 3,000 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. Note. — The large property in or near London (not returned in the survey of 1873) is not included herein.Q Principal Residence. — Woburn Abbey, Beds. BEDFORD, BARONY OF. This was never a Peerage dignity, but was assumed (together with the Baronies of Mowbray and Segrave) by "William (Berkeley), Marquess of Berkeley, (so cr. 1488) 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 and Segrave and Baron of Bedford. Q') The site of Bedford Castle, the chief seat of the family of Beauchamp as to their Barony of Bedford, descended to the Marquess, (through the marriage of Maud, eldest of the 3 daughters and coheirs of William de Beauchamp, with Roger de Mowbray, of which Maud his Lordship was but a fo-representative) and was by him alienated to Sir Reginald Bray,('=) since which time the style of "Baron of Bedford " has never been adopted by the Berkeley family. BEERHAVEN see BEREHAVEN (*) See vol. vi, Appendix H {area fineni), for some remarks on the Bedford property as compared with that of holders of 100,000 acres and upwards. (*") A practice arose among the early nobles of adopting the style of various baronies to which they fancied they might be entitled and to which (in some cases) they were actually w-hcirs. Such was the case in this instance, and, again, later on, in the same family, when Henry, Lord Berkeley (i 534-1613) adopted the style of Lord Braose, in addition to the already assumed titles of Lord Mowbray and Segrave, he being but a fo-heir to any of those Baronies; so also many of the Earls of Oxford, 1 245-1 703, adopted the style of '■'■ Lord Bolebec" and subsequently of '■^ Lord BadUsmere" i^c. See vol. i, p. 373> "-^^«^-" ("=) Lysons' Beds, pp. 10 and 46.