Education
Educated at Eton College, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a Master of Arts (Master of Arts).
Educated at Eton College, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a Master of Arts (Master of Arts).
John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (1917–2002), who supplied a detailed and hostile portrait of him in the 1959 memoir A Silver-Plated Spoon;
Lady Daphne Crommelin Russell (2 September 1920-1921 June 1991);
Lord Hugh Hastings Russell (1923–2005), a conscientious objector in the Second World War, married Rosemary Markby and had issue. A keen naturalist, he arranged a 1906 expedition to Shaanxi, China to collect zoological specimens for the British Museum, during which Arthur de Carle Sowerby discovered a new species of jerboa. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, but never fought in the First World War owing to ill health.
His subsequent advocacy of pacifism during the 1930s, and his attempt to mediate a truce in the Second World War by visiting the German legation in Dublin, led to his name being placed on a list of persons to be arrested in the event of a German invasion.
He went on to be patron of the British People"s Party based in Covent Garden, an anti-war party that was accused of having fascist sympathies. Despite this, he contributed articles on Social Cr and pacifism to Guy Aldred"s journal, The Word, between 1940 and his death.
While known as the Marquess of Tavistock, he wrote "Parrots and Parrot-like Birds". He was successful in breeding many species, including the Tahiti Blue Lorikeet and Ultramarine Lorikeet.
Both of these are recognised as the world"s first breedings in captivity.
The Marquess disposed of his birds upon succeeding to the Dukedom in 1939. He died in 1953, aged 64, as a result of a gunshot wound in the grounds of his Endsleigh estate in Devon.
His cohort included John Beckett, a former Labour Member of Parliament whom other fascist groups complained siphoned away his monies, which could have been spent on more worthy causes.