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 126 COMPLETE PEERAGE ampthill AMORIE, see D'AMORIE AMPTHILL i.e., " Bruce of Ampthill, co. Bedford, " Viscountcy (Bruce), cr. 1664 with the Earldom of Ailesbury, which see ; extinct 1747. (*) BARONY. I. Odo William Leopold Russell, 3rd and yst. s. of J „„ Major-Gen. Lord George William Russell, G.C.B. (br. to Francis Charles Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford), by Elizabeth Anne, only da. and h. of the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon, br. of Francis, ist Marquess of Hastings, was b. at Casa Bianca, Florence, 20 Feb., and bap. there 25 Mar. 1829. Baptism reg. at Woburn, Beds. Ed. at Westm. School. Attach^ at Vienna, 1849 ; Foreign Office, 1851 ; Attach^ at Paris, 1852; Constantinople, 1854; Washington, 1857; Florence, 1858 ; Naples, i860; Special Service, Rome, 1860-70; Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1870-71 ; Ambassador to Berlin, 1871-84. Had royal warrant of precedence as the son of a Duke, 25 June 1872. P.C. 1872. G.C.B., 21 Feb. 1874. G.C.M.G., 24 May 1879. On 1 1 Mar. 1 881, he was cr. BARON AMPTHILL of Ampthill, (") co. Bedford. He m., 5 May 1868, at Watford, Herts, Emily Theresa, 3rd da. of George (Villiers), 4th Earl of Clarendon, by Katherine, widow of John Foster-Barham, da. of Walter James (Grimston), ist Earl of Verulam. He d., at his villa at Potsdam, near Berlin, 25 Aug., and was bur. 3 Sep. 1884, at Chenies, Bucks. Will pr. 17 Dec. 1884, above ;^45,ooo, reciting that over ;r7 5,000 Consols was in settlement. His widow, who was b. 9 Sep. 1843, ^^ Grosvenor Crescent, Midx., was a Lady of the Bed- chamber, 1 885-1 901 ; V. and A. 3rd class. Living 1909. II. 1884. 2. Arthur Oliver Villiers (Russell), Baron Ampt- hill, s. and h., h. 19 Feb. 1869, at the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Baptism reg. at the British Embassy there. Ed. at Eton ; matric. Oxford (New Coll.) 12 Oct. 1888; 3rd class history, 1891 ; B.A., 1892 ; Priv. Sec. to the Colonial Sec, 1895. Governor of Madras 1900-05. He m., 6 Oct. 1894, at Madresfield, co. Worcester, Margaret, 3rd da. of Frederick (Lygon), 6th Earl Beauchamp, by his ist wife, Mary Catherine, only da. of Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope. She was b. 8 Oct. 1874. [John Hugo Russell, s. and h. ap., b. 4 Oct. 1896.] C) See as to the honour of Ampthill, p. 58, note " b. " C") Following modern custom, Lord Ampthill bears the undifferenced arms of Russell, which belong to the ducal house of Bedford, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G.