biography
| name: |
Russell, William, Lord
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1639–83)
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| biography:
| English Whig politician. He studied at Cambridge, travelled in Europe, and at the Restoration became an MP. A supporter of Shaftesbury, and a leading member of the movement to exclude James II from the succession, he was arrested with others for participation in the Rye House Plot (1683), found guilty by a packed jury, and beheaded. |
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