RUSSELL, Sir John (c.1485-1555), of Berwick, Dorset; Russell House, the Strand, Mdx and Chenies, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1485, s. of James Russell of Berwick by Alice, da. of John Wise of Sydenham, Devon. m. spring 1526, Anne (d. 14 Mar. 1559), da. of Sir Guy Sapcote of Hunts., wid. of John Broughton (d.1517/19) of Toddington, Beds. and of Sir Richard Jerningham (d.1525/26) of London, 1s. Francis. suc. fa. 20 July 1505. Kntd. 2 July 1522; KG nom. 24 Apr. 1539, inst. 18 May 1539; cr. Baron Russell 9 Mar. 1539, Earl of Bedford 19 Jan. 1550.This biography rests on G. Scott Thomson, Two Cents. of Fam. Hist. and D. Willen, ‘The career of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford: a study in Tudor politics’ (Tufts Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1972). G. Scott Thomson’s estimate of Russell’s date of birth has been adopted. PCC 4 Adeane, 17 Ayloffe, 9 Porch; C142/33/120, 40/28, 48, 46/25.

Offices Held

Gent. the privy chamber 1507; knight marshal, the Household 1523 – 27; knight of the body by 1527; sheriff, Som. and Dorset 1527 – 28; j.p. Beds., Bucks., Herts., Hunts., Northants. 1533 – d., Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Som. 1539; PC 1536 – d.; comptroller, the Household 18 Oct. 1537–9; pres. council in the west 1539; high steward, duchy of Cornw. 4 July 1539 – d., univ. Oxf. 1543 – d.; ld. warden of the stannaries 4 July 1539 – d.; commr. coastal defences, south-western counties 1539, relief, Beds., Bucks., London 1550; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1539, 1542, 1545, 1547, Mar. 1553, Oct. 1553, ? Apr. 1554, Nov. 1554; ld. admiral 28 July 1540 – 17 Jan. 1543; ld. privy seal 3 Dec. 1542 – d.; steward, manor of Stamford, Lincs. 1543 – 47, 1548 – d.; ld. lt. Devon, Cornw., Som., Dorset 1545, 1549 – 53, Bucks. 1552.LJ, i. 103, 165, 267, 293, 430, 447, 464; Stamford hall bk. 1461–1657, ff. 138, 146; G. Scott Thomson, Lds. Lt. 19–21; I. Temple, Petyt ms 538, vol. 46, f. 442v; APC, iii. 6, 258–9; iv. 49, 276.

Parlimentarian

RUSSELL, Sir John (c.1485-1555), of Berwick, Dorset; Russell House, the Strand, Mdx and Chenies, Bucks.

Main residences: Berwick, Dorset and Russell House, the Strand, Mdx. and Chenies, Bucks.

Author

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

RUSSELL, Sir John (c.1485-1555)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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