| Barony of Ampthill | |
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| Creation date | 11 Mar 1881 |
| Created by | Queen Victoria |
| Peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom |
| First holder | Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill |
| Present holder | David Russell, 5th Baron Ampthill |
| Heir presumptive | Anthony John Mark Russell |
| Remainder to | the 1st Baron'sheirs maleof the body lawfully begotten. |
Baron Ampthill, ofAmpthill in the County of Bedfordshire, is a title in thePeerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 March 1881 for the diplomatLord Odo Russell. He was the third son ofMajor-GeneralLord George Russell, second son ofJohn Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford.
His son, the second Baron, served asGovernor of Madras from 1899 to 1906 and was interimViceroy of India in 1904. His grandson, the fourth Baron, was one of the ninety electedhereditary peers that remained in theHouse of Lords after the passing of theHouse of Lords Act 1999, and sat as a cross-bencher. As of 2014[update] the title is held by the latter's son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2011.
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is:Argent, a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three escallops argent, a mullet or for difference.
Theheir presumptive is the present holder's brother, Anthony John Mark Russell (b. 1952).
| Duke of Bedford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earl Russell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (1788–1861) | Lord George William Russell (1790–1846) | Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) P.M. 1846–52, 1865–66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BARON AMPTHILL, 1881 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872) | Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford (1819–1891) | Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829–1884) | John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10th and subsequent Dukes of Bedford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1869–1935) | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1970) Philosopher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christabel Hulme Hart[n 1] (1895–1976) | John Hugo Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill[n 2] (1896–1973) | Adeline Mary Constance Hone[n 3] (1909–2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill[n 4] (1921–2011) | John Hugo Trenchard Russell[n 5] (born 1950) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Whitney Erskine Russell, 5th Baron Ampthill (born 1947) | James Nicholas Geoffrey Russell (1948–1969) | Anthony John Mark Russell (born 1952) heir presumptive | Henry John Trenchard Russell (born 1977) | James Peter Faber Russell (born 1980) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Odo Alexander Russell (born 1986) | William Russell (born 2010) | Oliver Odo Jonathan Russell (born 2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 5th Baron is 4th cousin once removed of the 15th Duke of Bedford and is currently 16th in theline of succession to the dukedom.
