Career
Elizabeth Anne was the only child of Captain the Honorary John Theophilus Rawdon (died 1808), the brother of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. A beautiful and energetic cosmopolitan who had enjoyed a broad European education, Lord Byron praised her in Beppo as " whose bloom could, after dancing, dare the dawn".
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux described her as that accursed woman.
She and Russell had three sons, all of whom she tutored at home, perhaps lending them a rather distinctive approach to life:
Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford;
Lord Arthur John Edward Russell;
Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill. Benjamin Disraeli said in conversation, I think she is the most fortunate woman in England, for she has the three nicest sons.