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Family and Education
b. c.1620, 3rd s. of of Francis Russell†, 4th earl of Bedford, and Catharine (d. 30 Jan. 1657), da. of Giles Brydges†, 3rd Baron Chandos; bro. of William Russell*. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 8 July 1634, ‘aged 14’;Al. Ox. ?travelled abroad bef. 1640.Letter Bks. of Sir Samuel Luke, 397. unm. bur. 25 Nov. 1687 25 Nov. 1687.Lipscomb, Buckingham, iii. 249.
Offices Held

Military: lt.-col. of horse (roy.), regt. of Sir Francis Wortley by Nov. 1642. Lt. col. of dragoons, regt. of Thomas Ld. Wentworth, ?1642-July 1643. Lt. col. of ft. regt. of Prince Rupert, July 1643–46.A Copy of a List of all the Cavalliers (1642, 669.f.6.91); Royalist Ordnance Pprs. ed. Roy, i. 68, ii. 433; A Particular Relation of the Action before Cyrencester (1643), 9. Col. and capt. king’s regt. of ft. gds. 23 Nov. 1660–81.Dalton, Army Lists, i. 7.

Local: commr. sewers, Bedford Gt. Level 1662.C181/7, p. 148.

Parlimentarian
RUSSELL, John (c.1620-87), of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, Mdx. and Shingay Hall, Cambs.
: Mdx., Covent Garden and Shingay Hall, Cambs.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, W. Dobson;Althorp, Northants. oils, W. Dobson;Ashmolean Museum, Oxf. oil on canvas, J. Hayls, c.1645;Warwick Castle, Warws. oils, J. Hayls;Woburn Abbey, Beds. oil on canvas, group portrait with Prince Rupert and ?William Legge†, W. Dobson, c.1645-6;Private colln. oil on canvas, group portrait with Prince Rupert and ?William Legge, W. Dobson;NT, Ashdown House. oil on canvas, J.M. Wright, 1659.NT, Ham House.

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Commons 1640-1660
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RUSSELL, John (c.1620-87), of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, Mdx. and Shingay Hall, Cambs.

Will
7 Apr. 1683.Worcs. RO, 705:56, BA 3910/17.
Estates
lived in a house in Covent Garden; acquired property at Shingay, consisting of Shingay Hall and surrounding farmland of at least 1,450 acres, by settlement on the death of his fa.VCH Cambs. viii. 124-7.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
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