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London: Constable, 1980. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 246 pages, 39 illustrations. Genealogical tree endpapers. Jeremiah Wiffen, librarian to the sixth Duke of Bedford, traced the lineage of the family to Olaf the Sharp-Eyed, King of Rerik in the seventh century. Later, Wiffen was thought to have been too ingenious; the first ancestor of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford proven by documentary evidence was Stephen Russell, who lived at the end of the 14th century, and through marriage came into the property of Berwick by Swire in Dorset. This was the home from which John Russell, a century later, set out on his varied and triumphant career in the service of the crown, receiving an Earldom in 1550. Since that time the Rusell family have sustained a remarkable ascendancy, usually adding to their property with each generation, or producing men as brilliant and distinguished as Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister, in the 19th century and Bertrand Russell in the…
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- Title Woburn and the Russells
- Author Blakiston, Georgiana
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Constable, London
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780094612105
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Constable, 1980-09-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 3.1976 in x 23.7819 in x 16.3875 in. Laminated, ex library book with usual markings/stamps. Signs of wear.
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