Rachel Russell [née Wriothesley]

(1637-1723)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Russell, Rachel, Lady, 1636-1723 NRA: Russell Rachel (1636-1723) Lady Russell DNB: Russell [née Wriothesley; other married name Vaughan], Rachel, Lady Russell (bap. 1637, d. 1723), noblewoman LBT ID: RaRusse1723 VIAF ID: 822823 LOC ID: n86835673	B/BAP: 1637-09-19 DIED: 1723-09-29
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The daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, fourth earl of Southampton; her letters involving the trial of second husband, William Russell, Lord Russell, implicated in the Rye House Plot, were published in 1773.
REFERENCES TO Rachel Russell [née Wriothesley]: Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, 27 February 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1820 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 3