JOHN RUSSELL, 6TH DUKE of Bedford (1766-1839), was a younger son who unexpectedly inherited a dukedom and vast estates including Covent Garden and Bloomsbury, in London, where he built the magnificent neoclassical market hall in the former and completed urban development of the latter around five new garden squares.
His wife Georgina (1781-1853) was the daughter of Jane, Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812), the pioneer late-Georgian populariser of the Highlands
