RUSSELL, Edward (1652-1727) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 1652, 2nd s. of Hon. Edward Russell (d.1665) and Penelope, da. of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, wid. of Hon. Arthur Wilmot of Dublin and Sir William Brooke of Cooling Castle, Kent. educ. Tottenham, Mdx. (Mark Lewis’ sch.); St John’s Camb. 1666, LLD 1705. m. 12 Nov. 1691, cos. Margaret (1656-1702), yst. da. William Russell, duke of Bedford, s.p. d. 26 Nov. 1727; will 2 Mar. 1727, pr. 3 Jan. 1728. TNA, PROB 11/619.

Offices Held

Groom of the bedchamber to James Stuart, duke of York, 1682-aft. 1683; PC 1689 – 1702, 1709 – d.; treas. of the navy 1689 – 99; commr. of the Admiralty 1690 – 91; first ld. of the Admiralty 1694 – 99, 1709 – 10, 1714 – 17; commr. appeals for prizes 1694-aft. 1695; CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 204; 1695, p. 112 ld. justice 1697 – 98, 1714; commr. Union with Scotland 1706.

Custos rot. Cambs. 1689 – d.; dep. lt. Cambs. 1701–2; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 225; 1702–3, p. 395. ld. lt. Cambs. 1714 – d.; asst. Mines Co. 1693; CSP Dom. 1693, p. 207. commr. Greenwich Hosp. 1694; freeman, Portsmouth 1695; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 271. conservator Bedford Level 1697, 1712–24; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 469, 481, 485. high steward, Camb. 1699–d.; Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iv. 41 master of king’s game, Newmarket 1715-aft. 1718; CTB, xxx. 552; xxxii. 471. recorder and high steward, Harwich c.1715–d. HMC Egmont Diary, i. 16; S. Dale, Harwich and Dovercourt, 222

Ent. RN 1666, lt. 1671, capt. 1672 – 82; adm. (blue) 1689; adm. of the fleet 1690 – 93, 1693 – 97.

Parlimentarian

RUSSELL, Edward (c.1652-1727), of Chippenham Hall, Cambs.

Associated with: Chippenham, Cambs.

Likenesses

Sir G. Kneller, oils, National Maritime Museum.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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