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76 BEDFORD 1552/3 he was sum. to Pari, in his father's Barony, as LORD RUSSELL,(*) and as such signed the letters patent, 16 June 1553, settling the crown on Lady Jane Grey-C") He was one of the Generals at the battle of St. Quentin, 10 Aug. 1557. P.C. 1558; Warden of the Stannaries, 1559-80. Ambassador to France, 1559, and again, 1561, on the death of Francis II. Governor of Berwick and Warden of the East Marches, Feb. 1563/4; elected K.G., 23 Apr., and inst. 15 May 1564; one of the Commissioners to treat of the marriage of the Queen with the Duke of Anjou, 1582; Chief Justice in Eyre, South of the Trent, 1584-85; Lord Lieut, of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, and the city of Exeter. Founder of two Student- ships of Divinity at University College, Oxford. He was " commonly called the good Earl of Bedford. "(") He twice entertained the Queen, viz., on 23 July 1570, at Chenies, and, again, in July 1572, at Woburn Abbey. He m., istly, Margaret, widow of Sir John Gostwick, sister of Oliver, ist Lord St. John, and da. of Sir John St. John, of Bletsoe, Beds, by Margaret, da. of Sir William Waldegrave, K.B. She, who was one of the Ladies of Honour, d. at Woburn, Beds, 27 Aug., and was l>ur. 10 Sep. 1562, at Chenies. M.l. there. He m., 2ndly, (settlement 25 June 1566) Bridget, widow of Henry (Manners), Earl of Rutland, and formerly of Sir Richard Morrison, and da. of John (Hussey), Lord Hussey, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of George (Grey), Earl of Kent. He d. of gangrene, at Russell, otherwise Bedford House, Strand, Midx., 28 July, and was bur. 14 Sep. 1585, at Chenies, aged 58.('*) M.I. Will dat. 7 Apr. 1584, pr. 30 Sep. 1586. Inq.f. m. at the Strand, 28 Dec. 1585. His widow, by whom he had no issue, d. 12 Jan. 1 600/1, and was bur. at Watford, Herts, aged 75. M.I. Will dat. 2 June 1600, pr. 12 Jan. 1 600/1. [Edward Russell, styled Lord Russell, s. and h. ap., by ist wife. He »?., about 1571, Jane Sibella, da. of Sir Richard Morrison, of Cashio- bury, Herts, by Bridget, both abovenamed. He d. v.p. and s.p., soon afterwards, and was bur. at Chenies. Admon., 30 June 1572, to "Lady Sibill " his widow. She, who was an alien by birth (') but naturalised (1575-76) 18 Eliz., »?., as his 2nd wife, Arthur (Grey), Lord Grey of Wilton, K.G., sometime Lord Deputy of Ireland, who d. 1593. She d. Viscount, to sit in the H. of Commons. There was evidently doubt as to his eligibility, and a vote taken on the point, for on 21 Jan. 1549/50 it was "ordered that Sir Francis Russell, son and heir apparent to the now Earl of Bedford shall abide in this House in the state he was before." [House of Commons^ 'Journals). V.G. (") For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. to Pari. v.p. in one of their father's peerages, see vol. i, Appendix G. C") For a list of these see note suh Edward, Earl of Derby [1521]. ('^) Bookof " Benefactors " at the College of Arms, London. () Camden gives a high account of his piety, talents, and charity, and remarks that his great wealth seduced him not into indolence, debauchery or pride. V.G. See a masterly character of him in Froude's Eitxabeth, vol. i, p. 44. (^) Her father had been employed by Henry VIII and Edward VI in several foreign missions, to Germany and elsewhere. He d. at Strasburg, 17 Mar. 1556.