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William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683) was an English politician. He was a leading member of the Country Party, forerunners of the Whigs, who during the reign of King Charles II, laid the groundwork for opposition in the House of Commons to the accession of an openly Catholic king in Charles's brother James.
William Russell, Lord Russell (born Sept. 29, 1639—died July 21, 1683, London, Eng.) was an English Whig politician executed for allegedly plotting to murder King Charles II and his Roman Catholic brother James, Duke of York.
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10 de jan. de 2014 · On July 21, 1683, William, Lord Russell, the former leader of the Whig party in the House of Commons, was executed in Lincoln's Inn Fields for high treason.
- Lois G. Schwoerer
- 1985
On July 21, 1683, William, Lord Russell, the former leader of the Whig party in the House of Commons, was executed in Lincoln's Inn Fields for high treason. The week before a jury had convicted him of. conspiring with other Whig leaders in schemes that have become known as the Rye House Plot to raise rebellion by capturing King.
On July 21, 1683, William, Lord Russell, the former leader of the Whig party in the House of Commons, was executed in Lincoln's Inn Fields for high treason.
From 1678 when his elder brother died, he was known by the courtesy title "Lord…. Russell". Prominent during the Exclusion Crisis (1678-81) in opposition to the succession of the Duke of York as James II. Beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 21 July 1683 for his part in the Rye House Plot to depose the king.
Overview. Lord William Russell. (1639—1683) politician and conspirator. Quick Reference. (1639–83). Russell, son of the earl of Bedford, entered Parliament in 1660 for Tavistock and became a leader of the Shaftesbury Whigs.
