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Earl of Orford is a title that has been created three times. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1697 in when the naval commander Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell was made Earl of Orford, in the County of Suffolk. He was created Baron of Shingay, in the County of Cambridge, and Viscount Barfleur at the same time, also in the Peerage of England. A member of the influential Russell family, he was the son of the Honourable Edward Russell, a younger son of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford and younger brother of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (see Duke of Bedford for earlier history of the Russell family). Lord Orford had no children and the titles became extinct on his death in 1727.
Contents
- Earls of Orford First creation 1697
- Family Tree
- Earls of Orford Second creation 1742
- Earls of Orford Third creation 1806
- References
The title was later created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1742 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1806, both times for members of the Walpole family. For information on these titles see Baron Walpole.
Earls of Orford; First creation (1697)
Family Tree
This tree goes only as far as the death of the Earl of Orford and contains his ancestors and contemporaries. For further tree descendants see Duke of Bedford