Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford
Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford (25 May 1708 – 23 October 1732) was an English nobleman and peer.
He was the son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford.
Russell married his sister's stepdaughter, Lady Anne Egerton, daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgwater, on 22 April 1725.
He died in 1732, aged 24 at Corunna, Spain, without issue.
He was buried on 14 December 1732 in the 'Bedford Chapel' at St. Michael’s Church, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, and his titles passed to his brother, John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford( c. 1485 – 14 March 1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era.
He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal.
Among the lands and property he was given by Henry VIII after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, were the Abbey and town of Tavistock, and the area that is now Covent Garden.
Russell is the ancestor of all subsequent Earls and Dukes of Bedford and Earls Russell, including John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Gertrude Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Gertrude Russell, Duchess of Bedford( 15 February 1715 – 1 July 1794), formerly the Hon. Gertrude Leveson- Gower, was the second wife of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.
She was the eldest daughter of John Leveson- Gower, 1st Earl Gower, and his wife, the former Lady Evelyn Pierrepont.
She married the Duke of Bedford on 2 April 1737.
The earl's first wife, the former Lady Diana Spencer, had died in 1735, of tuberculosis; Diana's only child by the earl- John Russell, Marquess of Tavistock- had died in infancy.
Following her marriage, Gertrude brought with her to the household at Woburn Abbey her former nurse, a Mrs Cradock, whose son Thomas became a clergyman and poet.
The duchess was described by Horace Walpole as being" stingy" and" avaricious".
Nevertheless, in 1748 she held a ball which was attended by the King George II, which was described by Henry Fielding as" a most noble entertainment".
It was also said that she" understood thoroughly the value of court smiles", and in 1762 she attended the French court at Versailles in an ambassadorial role.
She was interested in art; her portrait was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1756 and is held in the collection at the family seat of Woburn Abbey.
She was also painted by Thomas Hudson.
She is believed to have been an amateur artist, though not a skilled one.
Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford
Andrew Ian Henry Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford( born 30 March 1962) is a British nobleman and peer.
He is the son of Henry Robin Ian Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, and his wife, Henrietta Tiarks.
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, (30 September 17105 January 1771) was an 18th-century British statesman.
He was the fourth son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey.
Known as Lord John Russell, he married in October 1731 Diana Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland; became Duke of Bedford on his brother's death a year later; and having lost his first wife in 1735, married in April 1737 Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower (died 1794), daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower.
Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford (3 September 1783 – 3 July 1857) was a lifelong friend of Queen Victoria, whom she served as a Lady of the Bedchamber between 1837 and 1841.
She was also the originator of the British meal "afternoon tea."
Anna was the daughter of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, and Jane Fleming.
She was the wife of Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (married in 1808), and sister-in-law to the Prime Minister John Russell.
She was also the mother of William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford.
She became Duchess of Bedford in 1839 when her husband acceded to the dukedom.
The Duchess and her husband entertained the Queen at their country house Woburn Abbey in 1841.
The Duchess was also the chief mourner at the funeral of The Princess Augusta Sophia in 1840.
John Russell (Cambuslang footballer)
John Russell was a Scottish footballer who played as a right half.
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG (1 November 1680 – 26 May 1711) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the son of William Russell, Lord Russell, and his wife Lady Rachel Wriothesley.
From 1683 until 1694, he was styled Lord Russell, and from 1695 until his accession in 1700, Marquess of Tavistock.
Russell married the rich heiress Elizabeth Howland, daughter of John Howland of Streatham, on 23 May 1695.
Shortly thereafter (13 June 1695), his grandfather, the Duke of Bedford, was created Baron Howland of Streatham to commemorate the marriage.
The couple had six children:
On 13 May 1696, Tavistock, as he then was, matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Around 1698, he began the construction of the Howland Great Wet Dock on the Thames, on some of his wife's dowry lands in Rotherhithe.
Russell held the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Middlesex between 1701 and 1711.
He was also a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III from 1701 to 1702.
After William's death, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 14 March 1702 and served as Lord High Constable of England for the coronation of Queen Anne.
Russell died in 1711, aged 30, from smallpox and was buried on 30 May 1711 in the 'Bedford Chapel' at St. Michael’s Church at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford( 6 July 1766 – 20 October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a British Whig politician who notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents.
He was the father of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell.
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Aubigny,( 9 December 176428 August 1819) was a Scottish peer, soldier, politician, and Governor General of British North America.

Question: What is the cause of death of John Russell, 4Th Duke Of Bedford's father?
Answer: smallpox