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词条 John Russell (colonial administrator)
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  1. Life

  2. Family

  3. References

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John Russell (14 October 1670 – 5 December 1735) was an administrator of the English East India Company.

Life

The posthumous third son of Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet and Frances Cromwell, he was on his mother's side a grandson of Oliver Cromwell. He was elected a factor of the East India Company in 1693, and went to Bengal in 1694.[1]

Russell served as President of Bengal, succeeding in the post Anthony Weltden, in 1711.[1][2]

Family

On 17 December 1697, Russell married Mary Eyre, sister of Sir Charles Eyre. They had one son and three daughters:

  • Col. Charles Russell (1700–1754), colonel of the 34th Regiment of Foot, married Mary Johanna Cutts Revett, daughter of Col. Edmund Revett, and had issue, including Sir John Russell, 8th Baronet
  • Frances Russell, married John Revett, son of Col. 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

On 7 September 1715, after returning from India, he married Joanna, the daughter and heiress of John Thurbane, of Chequers, and widow of Col. Edmund Revett. They had one daughter, Anne, who died an infant.

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References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Foster|first1=Sir William|last2=Cotton|first2=Sir Evan|last3=Anstey|first3=L.M.|title=Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne, Being an Account of the Settlement written by John Burnell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAkkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT210|accessdate=29 March 2018|date=2017-05-15|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781317173373|page=210}}
2. ^Provinces of British India - World Statesmen
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