Lord William Russell

(1639-1683)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683 NRA: Russell William (1639-1683) Lord Russell 'the Patriot' DNB: Russell, William, Lord Russell [called the Patriot, the Martyr] (1639-1683), politician and conspirator LBT ID: WiRusse1683 VIAF ID: 29916159 LOC ID: n82053021	B/BAP: 1639-09-29 DIED: 1683-07-21
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Rye-house plotter, the son of the first Duke of Bedford; after his execution for high treason he was celebrated as a martyr to liberty.
REFERENCES TO Lord William Russell: “The Tent: Bristol Hunt and Hampstead Hunt” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (September 1819) 639-42 Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 January 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 21 July 1837 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XIII Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 6 Found 1: ¶ 37 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 20 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 1: ¶ 22