Talk:Duke of Bedford

message: What is the point in having links which redirect right back to the original page?
:Not a lot. Someone (I forget who) decided they'd be a good idea a while back, and put them in for a few titles (mainly the senior Dukes, I believe), but they don't really do anything except irritate people (I've been annoyed a few times when I've thought there was an article on a particular title-holder only to be redirected to the page I'm on). I believe they go against Wikipedia policy as well. Unfortunately, there's no easy way of deleting them. Proteus (Talk) 06:41, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: : The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Bedford, all in the Peerage of England, are: [...] (and possibly the Barony of Bedford, which was merged into it in 1138, 1366 or 1414).
What does this mean?  —Tamfang (talk) 06:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barony of Bedford 

message: A webpage, cited here, moved from Prodigy to Angelfire.  An anonymous user changed the external link accordingly, and a bot reverted, I guess because Angelfire links are deprecated.  No link is better than a dead link, so I removed it.  —Tamfang (talk) 05:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online Gotha 

message: The latest edit puzzles me.  The edit summary is:
:  rem those who have succeded - 
:#Henry Robin Charles Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, (b. 2005), only son of the 15th Duke 
:#Lord Robin Loel Hastings Russell (b. 1963), second son of the 14th Duke
If they have succeeded (through some disaster), is Robin Loel now the 17th Duke? —Tamfang (talk) 03:02, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  what's the current state of the succession? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article does not explain why the same person was made Duke of Bedford twice, and neither does his own article. I think we need a source for the second creation, and an explanation. Richard75 (talk) 13:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second creation requires explanation and a source 

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Which same time, which same Bat-channel year? —Tamfang (talk) 02:56, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  elusive simultaneity 

message: I don't see any reference to this title, which was held by the father of the philosopher Bertrand Russell (later Earl Russell).  As far as I can discover, it was a subsidiary title granted to the Prime Minister Lord John Russell (a younger son of the then Duke of Bedford) when he was given the title (as a true peerage, not a courtesy title) Earl Russell.  His son (father of Bertrand), was then able to use it as a courtesy title during the lifetime of his father. These things do get confusing, and it may seem a minor point, but as Lord John Russell and his grandson Bertrand are probably the most  notable members of the Russell tribe it may be worth mentioning somewhere in the article.2A00:23C8:7907:4B01:E5DA:63D5:D34D:EE7F (talk) 12:40, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mentioned at Earl Russell, where it belongs.  Where would it fit here? other than in the (collapsed) family tree, where it is already —Tamfang (talk) 02:07, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viscount Amberley