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Bedford Estate
The
Bedford Estate
is an estate in
central London
, owned by the Russell family who possess the
peerage
of
Duke of Bedford
. The estate was originally based in
Covent Garden
, then stretched to include
Bloomsbury
in 1669. The Covent Garden property was sold for £2 million in 1913, by
Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford
to the MP and land speculator
Harry Mallaby-Deeley
, who sold his option to the
Beecham
family for £250,000; the sale being finalised in 1918.
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