John Russell (1485-14 Maret 1555) adalah seorang bangsawan dan politikus Inggris. Dia lahir di Berwick-by-Swyre, Dorset, putra Sir James Russell († November 1505)^[1] dan istri pertamanya Alice Wise, putri Thomas Wise dari Sidenham, dekat Tavistock, Devon.^[2]

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• Round, J. Horace (1901). "The Origin of the Russells". Studies in Peerage & Family History. Vol. vol.2. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company. Pemeliharaan CS1: Lokasi tanpa penerbit (link). A severe and detailed critique of the work of Wiffen.
• Scott Thomson, Gladys (1930). Two Centuries of Family History. London: Longmans Green and Co. (Includes an early pedigree of the Earls of Bedford, and builds on J. Horace Round's critique of Wiffen)
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• Wiffen, J. H. (1833). Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell from the Time of the Norman Conquest. Vol. 1 of 2 vols. London. Fatally flawed in its erroneous linkage of the Russell Earls of Bedford with the "baronial" Russells of Kingston Russell.
• Willen, Diane (1981). John Russell, First Earl of Bedford, One of the King's Men. London: Royal Historical Society.

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• Will of Lady Anne, Countess of Bedford, proved 21 March 1559, PROB 11/42A/512, National Archives Retrieved 30 May 2013
• John Russell at Tudor Place