Anne Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Anne Russell, Duchess of Bedford( c.1705 – 16 June 1762), formerly Lady Anne Egerton, was the wife of Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford, and, following his death, of William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey.
She was the mother of the 4th Earl of Jersey.
Anne was the daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, by his first wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Churchill( herself the daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough).
Anne's brother, John Egerton, Viscount Brackley, died at the age of 14.
Following her mother's death in 1714, her father remarried, his second wife being Lady Rachel Russell, daughter of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford; Lady Rachel was about twenty years younger than her husband, and this second marriage produced seven children, who were Anne's half- siblings.
They included John Egerton, 2nd Duke of Bridgewater, and Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.
On 22 April 1725, at Ashbridge, Buckinghamshire, Anne married her stepmother's brother, who had succeeded to the dukedom in 1711.
A contemporary wrote that:" There resulted an wholly mix- up of relationships".
The marriage was not a success, and the couple were childless.
The duke was in financial difficulty, and died on 23 October 1732, aged 24, in Corunna, Spain, and Anne became Dowager Duchess, as the dukedom passed to her husband's brother.
On 23 June 1733, Anne married William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, at St. James's, Westminster.
The couple had two sons:
Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere
Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere VD, DL, JP (5 April 1847 – 13 July 1914), styled Viscount Brackley between 1857 and 1862, was a British peer, soldier and author from the Egerton family.
He owned several racehorses and land.
John Egerton, 2nd Duke of Bridgewater
John Egerton, 2nd Duke of Bridgwater( 29 April 1727 – 26 February 1748), known as Lord John Egerton until 1731 and as Marquess of Brackley from 1731 to 1745, was a British peer from the Egerton family.
He was also known as the 5th Earl of Bridgewater from 1745 to 1748.
Egerton was the fourth son of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater and his second wife Lady Rachael Russell, daughter of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford.
His older brothers having predeceased him, he succeeded his father as duke in 1745.
Only three years later Egerton died intestate, aged only 20, from a fever and was buried in Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire on 4 March 1748.
He was unmarried and was succeeded in his titles by his younger and only surviving brother Lord Francis Egerton.
James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex
James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex( 1621 – 16 September 1651), styled Lord Cranfield from 1622 until 1645, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and inherited his peerage in 1645.
Cranfield was the son of Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and was baptised on 27 December 1621.
In April 1640, Cranfield was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool in the Short Parliament.
He inherited the earldom on the death of his father in 1645.
Middlesex was nominated as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1646 and Keeper of Kingswood Forest in 1647.
In 1648, he was a Parliamentary commissioner to the Treaty of Newport.
Cranfield married Lady Anne Bourchier, daughter of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath.
His daughter Elizabeth married John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.
He was succeeded by his brother Lionel who became the 3rd Earl of Middlesex.
John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater
John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater KB PC (9 November 1646 – 19 March 1701) was a British nobleman from the Egerton family.
He was the eldest son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Elizabeth Cavendish.
His maternal grandparents were William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his first wife Elizabeth Basset.
On 17 November 1664, he married Lady Elizabeth Cranfield, daughter of James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex.
She gave birth to a son, but died in childbirth.
He married his second wife on 2 April 1673, Lady Jane Paulet, eldest daughter of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton.
Egerton served as a Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire as a Whig for Buckinghamshire from 1685 to 1686.
He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire following his father's death in 1686 but was dismissed after his first period in office by King James II for refusing to produce a list of Roman Catholics to serve as officers of the militia.
He was later reinstated to the position when William III came to the throne and James II was forced into exile.
He served as First Lord of Trade in the Convention Parliament, 1690–1691.
He was promoted to the cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty by the Whigs in 1699.
He served in this position until March 1700/1.
He was chosen as a Speaker for the House of Lords in 1697 and then again for 1701.
Jane Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Jane Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater( c.1656 – 23 May 1716), was the second wife of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.
She was a daughter of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, by his second wife Mary Scrope.
The 3rd Earl and his second wife Jane had nine children:
The eldest son, Viscount Brackley, and his younger brother Thomas, died aged 11 and 7 respectively, along with their private tutor, in a fire which destroyed the family's London home of Bridgwater House.
Both boys were buried on 14 April 1687 at Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
This left a younger brother, Scroop, as the heir to the earldom.
Following her husband's death, Jane was known by the title" Dowager Countess of Bridgewater".
In 1724 a controversy arose over the distribution of property in her will, causing her daughter Elizabeth to instigate a court case.
Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater
Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater( 11 August 1681 – 11 January 1744), known as Viscount Brackley from 1687 to 1701 and as the 4th Earl of Bridgewater from 1701 to 1720, was a British peer, courtier and pioneering landowner.
Born of the Egerton family, he succeeded as 4th Earl of Bridgewater in 1701, before being created" Duke of Bridgewater" on 18 June 1720, with subsidiary titles including" Marquess of Brackley".
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater PC (30 May 1623 – 26 October 1686) was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.
John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater
John William Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater FRS( 14 April 1753 – 21 October 1823), known as John Egerton until 1803, was a British cavalry officer, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1803 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Bridgewater.
He was from the Egerton family.
John Egerton, Viscount Alford
John Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford( 15 October 1812 – 3 January 1851) was a British Tory Member of Parliament from the Egerton family.
Born John Hume Cust, he was the eldest son of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow by his first wife Sophia Hume, daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet and Lady Amelia Egerton, great- granddaughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.
He gained the courtesy title of Viscount Alford on his father being created an Earl in 1815.
Alford was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
In 1835 he was elected to the House of Commons for Bedfordshire, a seat he held until his death in 1851.
In 1849 Alford assumed by Royal licence the surname of Egerton in lieu of his patronymic, on succeeding to the huge Bridgwater estates through his mother.
He joined the Canterbury Association on 17 June 1848 and remained a member until his death.
Lord Alford married Lady Marianne Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, in 1841.
He died in January 1851, aged only 38.
His eldest son, John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton- Cust, succeeded his grandfather in the earldom of Brownlow in 1853.
His second son, Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow, later became a government minister.

Question: What nationality is John Egerton, 3Rd Earl Of Bridgewater's father?
Answer: English