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Richmond and Lennox, colonel of the 35 'h regiment
of foot, a lieutenant-general in the army, and lord-
lieutenant of Ireland, and has issue.
4. Lady Magdelina, married, 1st, to Sir Robert Sin-
clair; 2<Uy, to Charles Palmer, Esq. of Luckley
Park.
5. Lady Louisa, married to Charles, 2d marquis of
Cornwallis, and has issue.
6. Lady Susan, married to William, 5th duke of Man-
Chester, governor of Jamaica, and has issue.
7. Lady Georgiana, married to John, 6'h duke of Bed-
ford, late lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and has issue.
Thisnobleroan succeded to his brother Francis Russel,
the late duke of Bedford, whose name will belong re-
vered in Britain, as t ^ e patron of agriculture, and
the illustrious promoter of every rural improvement.
To perpetuate his memory, the following elegy was
published at his death in 1802.
An Elegy sacred to the Memory of the most noble Francis
Russel, duke of Bedford, isfci
What sounds of woe from Woburn groves resound !
What plaintive murmurings fill the rural plains!
"Winy hangs yon gloom Augusta's towers around?
Why pours Britannia sad the sorrowing strains?
mer much-loved Lord sweet Woburn sad bewails ;
Their patron gone, the sylvau meads depfore ;
In mournful gloom her woes Augusta veils ;
Brilunnia weeps that Bedkoiid is no more !
Ah ! Bedford gone ! — who can the tear restrain ?
What bosom bleeds not at his early doom?
Oh ! virtue, grandeur, excellence, how vain !
Nought can avert the triumphs of the tomb !
In life's gay morn, bright did his beauties shine,
Each charm bloom'd fair, each virtue glow'd serene;