Francis Charles Hastings (Hastings) Russell, 9th duke of Bedford
1819–91
Agriculturalist. MP for Bedfordshire, 1847–72. Succeeded to the dukedom in 1872. Carried out agricultural experiments on his estate at Woburn. President of the Royal Agricultural Society from 1879.
Source
ODNB s.v. Russell, Lord George William.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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