Other Events:

• Will: 14 Feb. 1700/01
• Probate: 19 May 1702

Notes:

She and her elder sister Anne (who died October 1657) were painted as children, 1655–56, by Lely, who also painted diana at the time of her first marriage in 1667. Both portraits and the receipt for the latter (£29 10sh., including frame, August 1667) are still at Woburn, as are many of her letters to the Rev. John Thornton, the Russells' tutor there. See G. Scott Thomson, Life in a Noble Household, 1641–1700, pages 76, 111, 291, 293, where are other references to her.

Diana married Sir Greville Verney, de jure 9th Lord Willoughby de Broke on 29 Aug. 1667. Greville (son of Greville Verney, de jure 8th Lord Willoughby de Broke and Hon. Elizabeth Wenman) was born on 26 Jan. 1648/49; died on 23 July 1668 in Bedford House, Strand, Middlesex, England; was buried in Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Verney, de jure 10th Lord Willoughby de Broke was born on 12 June 1668; died on 23 Aug. 1683 in France; was buried in Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England.

Diana married William (Alington), 3rd Baron Alington of Killard on 15 July 1675. William died on 1 Feb. 1684/85. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]