Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC was an English nobleman and politician. He built the square of Covent Garden, with the piazza and St Paul's Church, employing Inigo Jones as his architect. He i
Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford by Henry Bone
Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford was an English nobleman and politician.
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford
…Parliament for the borough of Lyme Regis. In 1623 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Devon and on 3 May 1627 became Earl of Bedford on the death of his cousin Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford. In 1621 Russell was one of the thirty-three peers who petitioned James I on the prejudice caused to the English peerage by the lavish grant of Irish…
copy by George Perfect Harding of a portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger