John Russell Greenhill
John Russell Greenhill was an English vicar who owned Chequers, Bucks. He was the son of Samuel Greenhill, Esq. of Swyncombe, Oxon of the East India Company and Elizabeth Russell. Elizabeth belonged to the Russell of Chequers Court family and was descended from Oliver Cromwell.
John inherited Chequers upon the death of his cousin Mary Russell. He was sometime rector of Fringford and Marsh Gibbon, both in Oxfordshire. From 1773 until his death he was lord of the manor of Cottisford, also in Oxfordshire.[1]
He died in 1813 and his son Sir Robert Greenhill-Russell, 1st Baronet Greenhill-Russell of Chequers Court inherited both Chequers and Cottisford.[1]
References
Sources
- Lipscomb, History of Bucks, 1831
- Lobel, Mary D. (ed.) (1959). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6. pp. 103–116.
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