John Russell (14 October 1670 – 5 December 1735) was an administrator of the

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Life

The posthumous third son of Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet and

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, he was on his mother's side a grandson of

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. He was elected a factor of the East India Company in 1693, and went to

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in 1694. Russell served as President of Bengal, succeeding

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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

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, 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

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*Mary Russell, married Josiah Holmes, without issue *Elizabeth Russell, married Samuel Greenhill, mother of

John Russell Greenhill Rev. John Russell Greenhill (baptised 11 December 1727 – 20 December 1813) was an English cleric, known as the owner of Chequers, Buckinghamshire. Life He was the son of Samuel Greenhill (died 1749) of Swyncombe, Oxfordshire of the East India ...

On 7 September 1715, after returning from India, he married Joanna, the daughter and heiress of John Thurbane, of

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, and widow of Col. Edmund Revett, who had inherited

, now the British Prime Minister's country residence, from her father. They had one daughter, Anne, who died an infant. Chequers passed to his eldest son Charles.

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