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"6th Duke of Bedford" John Russell Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1820:
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 Up for sale a RARE! "6th Duke of Bedford" John Russell Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1820. 

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John

Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford KG PC FSA (6 July 1766 – 20

October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a

British Whig politician who notably served

as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in

the Ministry of All the Talents. He was the

father of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell.

Bedford was a younger son of Francis Russell, Marquess of

Tavistock, eldest son and heir of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

His mother was Lady Elizabeth, youngest child of Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of

Albemarle and Lady Anne Lennox. Like

most Russells, Bedford was a Whig in politics. He sat as Member of

Parliament for Tavistock from

1788 to June 1790 and from December 1790 to 1802, when he was automatically

elevated to the Lords on the death of his brother. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during

the Whig government of 1806–1807. He

became, as did many of his party who were strong followers of Bonapartism,

opposed to the Peninsular War, believing that it neither could

nor should be won. He funded, along with his son, many anti-war publications.

Bedford was sworn of the Privy Council in 1806

and appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1830. In 1823 the

6th Duke of Bedford was looking for a house in London and took the lease of one

of the seven houses designed and built by John Tasker on

Campden Hill, Kensington, for the sum of £5,250. The

lodge, previously occupied by General Sir John Fraser and

then a Major Colegrave, was a simple Regency villa. The Duke employed his

architect Jeffry Wyatt, who had worked for him on Woburn

Abbey, to enlarge the villa. After these developments were completed, for

several years Bedford Lodge was valued more highly for rating purposes

than Holland House. After the Duke's death in 1839

the Dowager Duchess continued to live at Bedford Lodge and made it a famous

centre for social gatherings. Duchess of Bedford's Walk in

Kensington is named in her honour. Shortly after her death in 1853 it was taken

by the eighth Duke of Argyll, who renamed the house Argyll Lodge and kept it

until his death in 1900.

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