The town was named for Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, Secretary of State for the Southern Department ( 1748 – 1751 ), and a close friend of Governor Benning Wentworth, whose first wife, Diana Spencer, was cousin to the Duke of Marlborough.

A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he had previously been the longtime Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1950 to 1966.

His repulse of a flanking attack by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was instrumental in saving the Union Army at the Battle of Franklin ; Wilson was one of only a few Union officers to best the legendary Southern cavalryman.

It is located on Bedford Street at the University of Southern Maine Portland Campus.

The club are currently members of the Southern League Premier Division and play at The New Eyrie in Cardington, a parish on the outskirts of Bedford.

After three seasons in the Isthmian Premier, Bedford had to win two playoff games to reach the new Conference South league, but they lost to St Albans City in the playoff final and were transferred to the Southern League Premier Division in the first stage of the non-league re-organization.

Bedford were relegated from the Conference South on 7 April 2007 after a 2 – 0 defeat to Newport County and returned to the Southern League Premier Division.

However, due to the demise of Nuneaton Borough, Bedford remained in the Southern League Premier Division, and managed to consolidate their position in the division.

In 1975 having moved on to Bedford, he bagged another touchdown against international opposition when representing the Southern Counties in their match against Australia at Aylesbury's Ostlers Field ground.

Image: 319219 A Bedford. JPG | A refurbished Southern Class 319 / 2 No. 319219 at, working a First Capital Connect service, bound for Brighton

In 2007 work began on the Bedford Western Bypass which opened in 2010.

In 2011 preliminary work began on extending the Western Bypass to join the A6 to the North of Bedford.

The first section of the Bedford Western Bypass opened December 2009.

There are plans in the near future to extend Highway 107 from Akerley Boulevard to the east side of Anderson Lake and from there either turn east to connect to the Bedford Bypass or continue north to connect to Duke Street / Glendale Avenue near Highway 102 exit 4C.

This extension would allow commuters from Halifax / Burnside heading to Sackville to bypass the Bedford Bypass and Windmill Road and instead go up to Burnside Drive and connect directly into Sackville.

Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts after a short illness.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

In a collection of chancery proceedings, it is heard of a petition brought against Malory by Richard Kyd, parson of Papworth, claiming that Malory ambushed him on a November evening, and took him from Papworth, to Huntingdon, and then to Bedford, to Northampton, all the while being threatened on his life to either forfeit his church unto Malory, or else give £ 100.

In 2011 the Roundabout Theatre Company produced a Broadway revival based on the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production featuring Brian Bedford as director and as Lady Bracknell.

In 1985, she collaborated with avant-garde composer David Bedford on the libretto of Rigel 9, a space opera.

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

Vera followed him the following year and they were married in Bedford, Massachusetts on 9 March 1940.

In January 1329 Isabella's forces under Mortimer's command took Lancaster's stronghold of Leicester, followed by Bedford ; Isabella – wearing armour, and mounted on a warhorse – and Edward III marched rapidly north, resulting in Lancaster's surrender.

Rouen became the capital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since May 1430, she was logically sent to this city for Christmas 1430 and after a long trial by a church court, sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in this city, where most inhabitants supported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy.

After an extensive series of studies in the 1950s, Alda Bedford showed that the human eye has high resolution only for black and white, somewhat less for " mid-range " colors like yellows and greens, and much less for colors on the end of the spectrum, reds and blues.

The MITRE / Washington Cablenet system is based on a technology developed at MITRE / Bedford.

Henry appointed the Duke of Bedford and James as the joint commanders of the siege of Dreux on 18 July 1421 and on 20 August they received the surrender of the garrison.

In Bedford Falls, New York on Christmas Eve, George Bailey ( James Stewart ) is deeply troubled.

The city of Orleans was not originally on the menu-indeed, Bedford had secured a private deal with Dunois, whose attentions were focused on the Richemont-La Trémoille conflict, then raging violently in the Berri.

The new siege commander appointed by Bedford in mid-November, William de la Pole ( Earl of Suffolk ) resolved on surrounding the city and starving it into submission.

But Bedford, certain Orleans was on the verge of falling, refused to surrender his prize.

His plane ( a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285 ) departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, on the outskirts of Bedford and disappeared while flying over the English Channel.

Nineteen soldiers from Bedford, whose 1944 population was about 3, 200, were killed on D-Day.

Bedford City and County maintain relationships with 11 communities on the Normandy Coast of France.

The Bedford statue also bears these wounds and is erected on the grounds of the National D-Day Memorial.

Barker was born Ronald William George Barker on 25 September 1929 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, to Leonard ( known as " Tim ") and Edith ( known as " Cis ") Barker.

Despite multiple seats being displayed on some maps, the formal county seat is Taunton ; Fall River and New Bedford are not county seats, but there are some courthouses and other county-operated facilities in those two places.

The A421 begins at Black Cat Roundabout on the A1 just South of the town, connecting with Bedford and Milton Keynes, and carrying much of the traffic between Oxford and Cambridge.

The village is bypassed by the busy A421 road on the way between Bedford and St Neots in Cambridgeshire, the bypass opening on 24 August 2006.

The village lies between the main A421 Bedford to Milton Keynes road and the A507 Ampthill to Woburn road.

Marston Moretaine ( Marston Moreteyne ) is a large village and civil parish located on the A421 between Bedford and Milton Keynes.

The A428 route here is a concurrency with the A421, bypassing Bedford, Great Barford and Roxton ( bypass opened on 24 August 2006 ), then at the Black Cat Roundabout joins the dual-carriageway A1 bypassing Wyboston.