[Illustration] RUSSELL, WRIOTHESLEY, SECOND DUKE OF BEDFORD _Arms._--Arg., a lion rampant gu., on a chief sa., 3 escallops of the first. _Coronet._--That of a Duke. [KNOLLES. _Turkish History._ London, 1701.] Wriothesley Russell (born 1st November 1680, died 26th May 1711) was the son of William Russell, second son of William Russell, first Duke of Bedford. His mother was Rachel, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In 1700 Wriothesley Russell succeeded to the Dukedom on the death of his grandfather the first Duke. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1701 was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and acted as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, of Cambridgeshire, and of Middlesex. He was Lord High Constable at the coronation of Queen Anne, on which occasion he was made a Knight of the Garter. Through Rachel Wriothesley the Manors of Bloomsbury and St. Giles-in-the-Fields came into possession of the Russell family, and for a long time they lived at Bedford House, which occupied the site now forming the northern side of Bloomsbury Square. [Illustration] SACKVILLE, EDWARD, FOURTH EARL OF DORSET _Crest._--Out of an heraldic coronet ppr., an estoile of 8 points arg. _Coronet._--That of an earl. [DE PHILOTHEIA. _Canticum canticorum_, libri x. Friburgi Helvetiorum, 1609.] Edward Sackville (born circ. 1590, died 17th July 1652) was the son of Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset. He was educated at Oxford, and succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1624. Mr. Sackville was Member of Parliament for Sussex, and in 1616 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and after his succession to the peerage he acted as Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, and later of Sussex. In 1625 he was made a Knight of the Garter. Lord Dorset carried one of the swords at the coronation of Charles I., and served as Chamberlain of the Household in 1644. He married Mary Curzon, governess to the king's children. [Illustration] SAINT-GEORGE, SIR RICHARD, KNIGHT _Arms._--Quartered. 1. Arg., a chief az., over all a lion rampant gu., crowned or. _St. George._ 2. Arg., a cross flory gu. _Trussell._ 3. Gu., 3 covered cups or. _Butler._ 4. Arg., 3 fleurs-de-lys between 8 crosslets sa. _Mortimer._ 5. Az., a fess dancetty between 6 escallops arg. _Dengayne._ 6. Sa., an estoile arg. _Ingleby._ _Legend._--SIGILLVM RICARDI SANCTI GEORGII. [_Collection of Manuscript Tracts of the Seventeenth Century._ Add. MS. 577, b. 5.]