Lucy Russell | |
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| Countess of Bedford | |
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| Born | Lucy Harington 1581 |
| Died | 1627 |
| Noble family | Harington |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford |
| Father | John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton |
| Mother | Anne Keilway |
| Occupation | Lady of the Bedchamber to Anne of Denmark |
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (née Harington; 1581–1627) was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet. She was an adventurer (shareholder) in the Somers Isles Company, investing in Bermuda,[1][2] where Harrington Sound is named after her.[3][4]
- ^ Lauren Working, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, 2020), p. 42. doi:10.1017/9781108625227
- ^ Misha Ewen, 'Women Investors and the Virginia Company in the Early Seventeenth Century', Historical Journal, 62:4 (December 2019), p. 859: John Henry Lefroy, Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of The Bermudas or Somers Islands, vol. 1 (London, 1877), p. 99.
- ^ Bermuda Online" Bermuda's Hamilton Parish, bermuda-online.org. Accessed 14 January 2023.
- ^ Profile, HamiltonParish.bm. Accessed 14 January 2023.