Background
The posthumous third son of Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet, he was on his mother"s side a grandson of Oliver Cromwell.
The posthumous third son of Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet, he was on his mother"s side a grandson of Oliver Cromwell.
Colonel Charles Russell (1700–1754), colonel of the 34th Regiment of Foot, married Mary Johanna Cutts Revett, daughter of Colonel Edmund Revett, and had issue, including Sir John Russell, 8th Baronet
Frances Russell, married John Revett, son of Colonel Edmund Revett, became bedchamber woman to Princess Amelia of Great Britain
Mary Russell, married Josiah Holmes, without issue
Elizabeth Russell, married Samuel Greenhill, mother of John Russell Greenhill
John served as President of Bengal in the early eighteenth century.
They had one daughter, Anne, who died an infant.