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No. 7.

COUNTESS OF KINGSTON.

''Blue dress. Little dog at her feet.''

She was the wife of William Pierrepont, fourth Earl of Kingston, and daughter of Robert, Lord Brooke.

No. 11.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

''Black dress. Holding a roll.''

BORN 1792, DIED 1878.

He was the youngest son of Lord John Russell, afterwards sixth Duke of Bedford, by the Honourable Georgiana Elizabeth Byng. In an able article in the Times of 1878 mention is thus made of this eminent statesman:—'He took an early interest in politics, and by the time he left college his political faith had crystalised into something very like that in which he lived, laboured, and died.' A visit to the Peninsula, where the star of Wellington was then in the ascendant, modified his French ideas (he had commenced by being an ardent advocate of the Revolution in France) and inspired young Russell with such an admiration for the hero that ever afterwards in the fiercest political struggle he maintained towards the Duke the attitude and language of profound admiration. His subsequent career belongs to the history of his country. He was a zealous upholder of Catholic Emancipation, and in the cause of Parliamentary Reform was the leading spirit, the draft for the