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Encyclopedia Britannica



FRANCIS RUSSELL

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 619 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FRANCIS RUSSELL , 5th duke of
Bedford
  (17651802), eldest son of Francis Russell, marquess of Tavistock (d. 1767), by his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1768), daughter of William Keppel, 2nd
earl
  of Albemarle, was baptized on the 23rd of July 1765. In January 1771 he succeeded his grandfather as duke of
Bedford
 , and was educated at Westminster school and Trinity College,
Cambridge
 , afterwards spending nearly two years in foreign travel. Regarding Charles James Fox as his political leader, he joined the Whigs in the
House
  of Lords, and became a member of the circle of the prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. Having overcome some nervousness and educational defects, he began to speak in the
House
 , and soon became one of the leading debaters in that assembly. He opposed most of the
measures
  brought for-ward by the ministry of William Pitt, and objected to the grant of a pension to Edmund
Burke
 , an action which drew down upon him a scathing attack from
Burke
 's pen. Bedford was greatly interested in agriculture. He established a model farm at Woburn, and made experiments with regard to the breeding of sheep. He was a member of the
original
  board of agriculture, and was the first president of the Smithfield club. He died at Woburn on the 2nd of March 1802, and was buried in the family burying-place at Chenies. The duke was never married, and was succeeded in the title by his brother, John.
See Lord Holland, Memoirs of the Whig Party (London, 1854) J. H. Wiffen, Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell (London, 1833): E. Burke,
Letter
  to a Noble Lord (Edinburgh, 1837; and
Earl
  Stanhope, Life of Pitt (London, 1861-1862).


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