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 302 BEDFORD. thereon. (") He d. unni. at Woburn Abbey (utter a fortnight's illness) from a severe surgical operation, aged 3o", 2 .March 1S02, ami was bur. 1G at C'heniee. Will dat. 27 l'"eb. and nr. 5 March 1802, by his br. John, the universal legatee. Dukedom. IX. Earldom. XII. 1- 180-: 10. John (Russell), Duke of Bedford, &<$., br. and h. i. <i .July I T'lti ami itf/l. 2 Aug. at St. Giles in the fields Midx. Knsig'n, 3rd Foot Guards, 17S3-S5. Recorder of Bedford; M.P. for Tavistock, 1788 to 1802 ; Loan Lisex. ov Ihei.anu, lS0li-07 ; KG. 25 Nov. 1830 ; took his seat in the House of Lords 9 Dec. 1S02 ; P.C., 1806 ; LL.D. (Cambridge); F.S.A., Ac He W. firstly 21 March 1786, at Brussels, and (again) on 17 April following at Streatham, Surrey, Georgians Klizabeth, 2nd da. «f George (Btno), 4th ViscofNT ToKUInoton, by Lucy, only da. of John (Boyi.e), 5th Eaw, of ConK [I.] She if. at Bath, 11 Oct, 1801, and was bier, at Chenies. He m. secondly 23 June 1S03, at Fife House, Whitehall, in St, Martins in the iields, Midx., Qeorgiana, 5Ul and yst. da. of Alexander (Gouuon), 4th DlJKB OF GORDON [S.J, by his first wife Jane, do. of Sir William Maxwk.U. of Monreith. 3rd Hart. [S.] He d. 20 Oct. 1839, at the Donne of Kuthiemurchus, co. Perth, and was bur. 10 Nov. at Chcnies. Will Mi June 15-10. His widow who, in lS3o', was coheir to her br. George, the 5th Duke of Gordon [S.], d. at Nice in Italy, 21 Feb. 1853, and was bur. there. Will pr. May 1853. Dukedom. 1 11. Fiiakcis (Russell), Duke of Bedfobd, &C, ^ i 1st s. and h. by 1st wife. He was*, in Call Mail, 13 May I'SS, Si ^--jo and hup. at St. James Westm. Ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge, Earldom. : M.A., 180S. M.P. for Peterborough, 1809-12 : for r.-ds, 1S12-32 VTTT He was sum. to the House (if Lords, v. p., 15 Jan. 1833, in J his Father's Barony (HOWL.YND OF STREATHAM) by writ directed to him as "Francis UusseJl of Utrcathaui, co. Surrey, Chevalier," and was placed in the precedency (1695) of the Barony of " /lowland of Streatham, co. Surrey."(») B.C. 1846. K.G. 26 March 1S47. Lord Lieut, of Beds, 1S59. Me m. S Aug. 1808, at Harrington House, St. Martin in the fields, Midx., Anna Maria, 1st da. of Charles (8TANHOPB), 3rd IvUIL OF H.uiltlNiiTOX, by Jane, da. and coheir of Sir John Fj.kmisi;, Bart. She, who was b. 3 Sep. 1783, and who was sometime a La.ly of Bedchamber, d. 3 July 1.857 and was Urn: at Chcnies. He d. 14 May lStil at Wobuni Abbey, and was tur. 22 at Chenies. ( a ) See " Collins," vol. i, p. 29S. The Duke is mentioned several times in " The Anti-Jacobin," r.'j. in the " New Morality" he is the " Leviathan " — " Thou in whose nose by Burke's gigantic hand The hook was fixed to drag thee to the land," alluding to Burke's famous ,; Letter to a Noble Lord, 179fi " written in a strain of eloquent, but most bitter, invective, seldom, if ever, surpassed. See also (in Edinondt edit. 1854) (iillray's clever engraving of " The Republican Rattlesnake [Fox] fascinating the Bedford Squirrel." Another poem in the same work (p. Ill styled "TbeDcwe and the Taxing Man" narrates how this Duke tried (without success) to escape the assesseil tax on his servants on the jdea that— " These varlets twenty-five were ne'er Literitd in white and red." (") i; Upon the introduction of this Pear the Lord Speaker signified to the House that his Majesty had been pleased to issue his Writ summoning Francis Russell, l''sq., to sit in his father's said Baronv of Mowlam! ; and the immediate production of the Writ ami silting of the Peer obviated all doubt as to the Barony speeilied by the Writ. There can be but little question, however, that the Writ should have been directed to Francis lliH.ell of Hoidatvl, by which title he sat in the House. A similar mistake hail occurred in 1717, in the case of Charles Pawlet, Ksq., eldest son of the Duke of Bolton, who was summoned as of ' Bating,' instead [asj of 'St. /MM of Basing) ; this error was then considered to have cr. a new dignity."— See "Court- diope," p. 259.