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 BEDFORD 8i m. (Lie. at Fac. off., 31 July 1669, to marry at Titchfield, Hants), Rachel, widow of Francis Vaughan, styled Lord Vaughan, 2nd da. and eventually coh. of Thomas (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton, by his ist wife, Rachel, da. of Daniel de Massue, Seigneur de Ruvigny. He d. as afsd., v.p., 21 July, and was bur. 2 Aug. 1683, at Chenies, aged 43. By Act passed 16 IVIar. 1688/9, his attainder was made void. His widow, who is well-known for her efforts exerted at and after her husband's trial, d. at Southampton (afterwards called Bedford) House,(^) Bloomsbury, 29 Sep., and was bur. 8 Oct. 1723, at Chenies, aged 86.('')] DUKEDOM. V. EARLDOM VIIL 2 and 6. Wriothesley (Russell), Duke of Bedford, i^c, grandson and h., being only s. 1 700 ^^'^ ^' °^ William, styled Lord Russell, and ' ■ Rachel his wife abovenamed. He was b. i Nov. 1680, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, and bap. there. Styled Marquess of Tavistock after i694.('=) Matric. at Oxford (Magd. Coll.), 13 May 1696; Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1701 to 1702; Lord Lieut, of cos. Bedford, Cambridge and Middlesex, 1701 till his death. On 23 Apr. 1702, at the coronation of Queen Anne, he was Lord High Constable for that occasion; elected K.G. 14 Mar. 1701/2, and inst. 13 Mar. 1702/3. He was a Whig in politics. He »;., when under age, 23 May 1 695, in the chapel of the Manor House at Streatham, Surrey, Elizabeth,('^) only da. and h. of John Howland, of Streatham(^) afsd., by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Josiah Child, Bart., of Wanstead, Essex. In honour of this match his grandfather was cr. Baron Howland as afsd. He d. of the small-pox, 26, and was bur. 30 May 17 II, at Chenies, aged 30.(*) Will pr. Aug. 171 1. His widow willing to extend to the victim of a pretended plot which he and his political friends, with the aid of Titus Gates, exploited in their party's interest. V.G. P The manors of Bloomsbury and of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, both of which had since the reign of James I belonged to the Wriothesley family, descended, on the death of the last Earl of Southampton in 1678, to his da. Rachel, Lady Russell. At her decease, in 1723, Southampton House, Bloomsbury (which is not to be confounded with Southampton House, Holborn, which also she inherited), became the residence of the Dukes of Bedford (who changed its name to " Bedford House ") and so continued till pulled down, in 1700, to make room for Bedford Place, Russell Square, iffc. This house occupied the whole of the north side of Bloomsbury Square. ('') "There is a curious picture of R., Lady R., [at Woburn] in her widowhood and old age — rather fat and plain — with all the widow's dress of the day, like a thick night-cap round her face, and a black veil over it. The picture of her when young is handsome." (Lady Waterford, i Dec. 1883). V.G. if) This appears to be the first case in which a courtesy title of peerage was used by the grandson and h. ap. of a Duke, Marquess; or Earl. See note on Robert Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, sub Robert, Earl Ferrers [1711]. (^) "They both making but 28 years. She will be worth the best part of (') The property at Streatham was sold by the Russell family about 1811. (*) He is stated by Luttrell {Diary) to have been at his accession " the richest 12
 * (^I00,000." (Luttrell's Diary). V.G.