George Russell (1830–1911)

Civil servant. Junior clerk to the Treasury, 1851–6. Assistant secretary to the Board of Works from 1856; secretary in the 1870s. Grandson of the fifth duke of Bedford.

Sources

Burke’s peerage 2003, s.v. Bedford

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/1031/127)

Port 1984, pp. 155 n. 33, 157

Sainty 1972.