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Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet (c. 1616–1664) a member of Parliament and a soldier for the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he held several positions including membership in Cromwell's House of Lords. ==Biography== Francis Russell son and heir of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, was returned a member for the county of Cambridge in the Long Parliament. He sided with Parliament in its dispute with Charles I. For his activity in the services of the former, he was appointed by them on 20 August 1642, deputy-lieutenant of the county of Cambridge, at which time an indemnity was ordered to be carried from the Commons to the Lords for him (jointly with Oliver Cromwell, and Valentine Walton) for preventing the removal of silver plate from Cambridge to York, and to which the Lords assented.〔Noble, (pp. 387,388 )〕 The Parliament gave Russell a colonel's commission upon the breaking out of the wars; they appointed him governor of the isle of Ely,〔Russell, was ordered down to his government of the isle of Ely, in may 1646. He was one of the Parliament assessors in 1644, and 1645, for Cambridgeshire. (Noble p. 388)〕 (if not of Crowland also) governor of the city of Lichfield; which, in 1643, he was obliged to surrender to prince Rupert, and afterwards he had the government of the isles of Jersey and Guernsey given him.〔Noble p. 388〕 During the protectorate Oliver Cromwell entrusted Russell, now related to him through the marriage of Henry Cromwell to Russell's daughter Elizabeth, with many employments, Russell returned a member of Parliament for the county of Cambridge in 1654 and 1656; and chosen by Cromwell to be a member of Cromwell's House of Lords.〔 Sir Francis succeeded his father in his baronetcy in 1654 survived the restoration of the monarchy, and was buried at Chippenham, 30 April 1664. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Chippenham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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