Lord Edward Russell (1643"Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell: From the Times of the Norman Conquest, Volume 2"
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, Longman, 1833. – 30 June 1714) was an English politician, known as Hon. Edward Russell until 1694. He married Francis Lloyd, a widow, in 1688.Collins, Arthur
''The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom Etc. Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected, and Continued to the Present Time''
Volume 1, page 258-278. Woodfall, H et al.1768 They had no children. Edward Russell was son of

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(1616–1700). Edward was educated privately and at the

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. At the time of the 1st Duke's death, Edward was the oldest surviving son, but the dukedom passed instead to Edward's nephew, the young Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford. This was because Wriothesley was the son of Edward's elder brother

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. Edward Russell represented

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in Parliament from 13 February 1679 to 23 March 1683. Russell was appointed

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in 1689 at the

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, and was

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from 1694 to 1702. He was briefly the

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, and Custos Rotulorum of Middlesex from 1700 until 1701, when his nephew Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford reached his majority and assumed those offices.

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