Family and Education
b. 1 Nov. 1680, o. s. of William Russell‡, styled. Ld. Russell, and Lady Rachel Wriothesley. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. matric. 13 May 1696; travelled abroad (France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands) 1697–9. Post Boy, 2–5 Dec. 1699. m. 23 May 1695 (with £100,000), Add. 70144, Sir E. to A. Harley, 23 May 1695; Verney ms mic. M636/48, C. Gardiner to Sir R. Verney, 24 May 1695. Elizabeth (d.1724), o. da. and h. of John Howland, merchant of Streatham, Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 476. 4s. (2 d.v.p.), 2da. KG 1702. d. 26 May 1711; will 24 Feb. 1701–13 May 1706, pr. 15 Aug. 1711. TNA, PROB 11/522.
Offices Held
Extra gent. of the bedchamber 1701 – 02; high constable of England at coronation of Queen Anne 1702.
Ld. lt. Mdx., Beds. and Cambs. 1700 – d.; recorder, Bedford ?1700–d.
Freeman, Merchant Adventurers (Hamburg) Co. 1698.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Woburn, Beds.; Bloomsbury Sq. Westminster.E. Hatton, A New View of London (1708), ii. 623-39; Add. 22267, ff. 164-71.;
Likenesses
Mezzotint by Isaac Beckett, aft. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1681-8, NPG D30859.
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Lords 1660-1715
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