Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
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Her Grace The Duchess of Bedford DBE ARRC FLS |
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The Duchess of Bedford
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Mary Du Caurroy Tribe 26 September 1865 , England |
| Died | 22 March 1937 (aged 71) North Sea off Great Yarmouth |
| Occupation | Aviator, ornithologist |
| Spouse(s) | Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford (m. 1888; her death 1937) |
| Children | Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford |
| Parent(s) | Walter Harry Tribe |
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford DBE ARRC FLS (26 September 1865 – ca. 22 March 1937) was an English aviator and ornithologist.
Born as Mary Du Caurroy Tribe at , she was the daughter of Walter Harry Tribe, Anglican Archdeacon of Lahore. On 31 January 1888, she married Lord Herbrand Russell at Barrackpore, India. When Lord Herbrand inherited his childless brother's titles in 1893, she was styled as the Duchess of Bedford. Her only child, Hastings, was born on 21 December 1888.
A major area of organisation and work for the Duchess was in founding four hospitals in Woburn and in the grounds of Woburn Abbey. The principal establishment was the Abbey Hospital that she financed and built in 1914, and where she worked as a nurse and radiographer through to the 1930s.
The Duchess was a collector and watcher of birds, and took an interest in bird migration. Between 1909 and 1914 she spent much time on Fair Isle, often in the company of William Eagle Clarke. Her journal, A Bird-watcher's Diary, was privately published in 1938 after her death.
She was a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League, a group associated with the Women’s Social and Political Union that used tax resistance to protest the disenfranchisement of women during the British women's suffrage movement
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