Son of the 5th Earl Bedford. MP for Tavistock. Convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the Catholic King Charles II and beheaded, eventually, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. When the Protestant William and Mary ascended the throne Lord William's father was created 1st Duke of Bedford in recognition of the sacrifice of his son.
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Lord William Russell
Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public behead...
Born Yorkshire. Opposed Henry VIII's self-appointment as head of the Church ...
British secret agent in WW2. Born in Paris as Violette Bushell of a French mo...
Soldier and then tutor to Prince Richard who would become Richard II. Burley ...
Grandson of King Edward IV. 1st Marquess of Exeter. Accused of Catholic loya...
