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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUSSELL OF • THORNHAUGH, See also:WILLIAM, 1st See also:BARON (c. 1558-1613), See also:English soldier, was a younger son of See also:Francis Russell, 2nd See also:earl of See also:Bedford, and was educated at Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford. After spending a few years abroad, he went to See also:Ireland in 158o, and having seen some service in that See also:country he was knighted in See also:September 1581. In 1585 he joinedthe English forces in the See also:Netherlands, being made See also:lieutenant-See also:general of See also:cavalry; in September 1586 he so distinguished himself at See also:Zutphen that the Spaniards pronounced him " a See also:devil and not a See also:man "; and in 1587 he became See also:governor of See also:Flushing in See also:succession to his See also:late friend, See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney. He differed with the estates of See also:Holland and with his See also:superior, See also:Lord See also:Willoughby de Eresby; consequently, on his own initiative, he was recalled to See also:England in See also:July 1588. In May 1594 Russell was made lord See also:deputy of Ireland in See also:place of Sir William See also:Fitzwilliam. He relieved See also:Enniskillen, but his attempts to See also:capture the insurgent leaders, See also:Hugh O'See also:Neill, earl of See also:Tyrone, and Fiagh MacHugh O'Byrne, came to nothing. In May 1595 Sir See also:John See also:Norris landed in Ireland, his orders being to help the lord deputy in his difficult task. Russell was somewhat chagrined at the choice, as he and Norris were not very See also:good See also:friends, but for a See also:short See also:time they acted together against the rebels in the N. of Ireland. Russell then led an expedition into See also:Connaught, but soon he and Norris were at variance. Having captured O'Byrne in May 1597, Russell laid down his See also:office and See also:left Ireland later in the See also:month. In 1603 he was created Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, and he died on the 9th of See also:August 1613.

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cousin See also:Edward as 4th earl of Bedford. Russell's See also:Journal of his doings in Ireland is in the See also:Carew See also:MSS., and many of his letters are in the See also:British Museum. See J. H. Wiffen, See also:Historical See also:Memoirs of the See also:House of Russell (1833), and R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. iii. (189o).

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