Lady Cosmo Russell
(1826-1886)

Volume 1, page 191, sitting number 968.

Born Annie Norbury, the youngest daughter of John George Norbury (died 1849), on 21 October 1851 she married Lord Cosmo George Russell (born 1817), son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and Lady Georgina Gordon.

After her husband's death in 1875, Lady Cosmo Russell married Major-General Thomas Henry Clifton. She appears to have continued using her first husband's name.

Lady Cosmo Russell Clifton died without issue on 18 April 1886. 'Lady Cosmo Russell died yesterday, at her residence, in Chester Square, London, at an advanced age, having survived her brother-in-law, Lord Wriothesley Russell, less than a fortnight. She was the daughter of Mr John George Norbury, and married in 1851 Lord Cosmo George Russell, a major-general in the army, who died in 1875. The deceased lady married secondly, in 1877, Major-General Thomas Henry Clifton, aide-de-camp and equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, who survives her' (Manchester Evening News, 20 April 1886).

According to a report in The Times on 9 July 1886, 'The will of Lady Cosmo George Russell, late of 6, Chester-square, who died on April 18 last, has been proved by Major-General Thomas Henry Clifton, the husband, the sole executor, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £25,000. The testatrix bequeaths £12,000, upon trust, for Lord Edward Russell, for life, then as to one half for Cosmo Romilly, and as to the other half for her husband, Major-General Clifton; £3,000 to her sister, Viscountess Lismore, and other legacies. The residue of her property she gives to her husband.'