86 BEDFORD STREATHAM) by writ directed to him as " Francis Russell of Streatham^ CO. Surrey, Chevalier," and was placed in the precedency (1695) of the Barony of '•'■ Howland of Streatham, co. Surrey."(*) P.C. 6 July 1846. K.G. 26 Mar. 1847. Lord Lieut, of Beds, 1859 till his death. He w., 8 Aug. 1808, at Harrington House, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx., Anna Maria, ist da. of Charles (Stanhope), 3rd Earl of Harrington, by Jane, da. and coh. of Sir John Fleming, Bart. She, who was b. 3 Sep. 1783, was a Lady of the Bedchamber 1837-41, and was chief mourner at the funeral of H.R.H. Princess Augusta Sophia. She d. 3 July 1857, in Belgrave Sq., and was bur. at Chenies. He d. at Woburn Abbey, 14, and was bur. 22 May 1861, at Chenies, aged 73. Personalty under ^^60,000. DUKEDOM. XI. 8 and 12. William (Russell), Duke of Bedford, CsPc, only child and h., b. i July o^ 1809, in Grosvenor Sq., and bap. at St. Geo., EARI DOM ' ^^"- ^1- ^^- ^^ Eton; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 10 May 1827. M.P. (Liberal) for Tavis- XIV. tock, 1832-41. He d. unm., 27 May 1872, suddenly, in the front hall at 6 Belgrave Sq., and was bur. at Chenies, aged 62. Personalty under ^600,000. C") DUKEDOM. XII. EARLDOM XV. 1872. 9 and 13. Francis Charles Hastings (Rus- sell), Duke of Bedford, fsfc., ist cousin and h., being s. and h. of Major Gen. Lord George William Russell, G.C.B., Envoy at Berlin (by Elizabeth Anne, only da. and h. of the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon, br. to Francis, ist Marquess of Hastings), which Lord George was next br. of Francis, Duke of Bedford next abovenamed. He was b. conferred by Henry VIII on the Earl of Bedford and his successors at the dissolution of the Abbey of WoJDurn, under which for the purpose of issuing marriage licences, etc., they stood in the place of the Abbot; very shortly before all such rights were abolishf^d by Lord Melbourne, in the Pluralities Act, one of the Duke's own sons, Lord Charles, was m. at Woburn by his licence in 1834. V.G. (*) " Upon the introduction of this Peer the Lord Speaker signified to the House that his Majesty had been pleased to issue his Writ summoning Francis Russell, Esq., to sit in his father's said Barony of Howland; and the immediate production of the Writ and sitting of the Peer obviated all doubt as to the Barony specified by the Writ. There can be but little question, however, that the Writ should have been directed to Francis Russell of Howland, by which title he sat in the House. A similar mistake had occurred in 17 17, in the case of Charles Pawlet, Esq., eldest son of the Duke of Bolton, who was summoned as of '■Basing,^ instead [as] of ' 5^ John (of Basing); this error was then considered to have cr. a new dignity." {Courthope, p. 259). See note sub Charles (Pawlet), Duke of Bolton [1722]. For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. v.p., in one of their father's baronies, see vol. i, Appendix G. C") During the latter years of his life he was a complete recluse, never leaving his London house except to drive in a carriage with wooden shutters. The enormous increase in his personalty (during 1 1 years) over that left by his father was due to the
