Louisa Russell, Duchess of Bedford (Kendal, Westmorland, 27 March 1893 – 2 October 1960),[1] formerly Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell, was an English noblewoman, the wife of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, and mother of the 13th Duke.
Jowitt was an academic based at New College, Oxford, and she met the future duke when he was an undergraduate at Balliol.
[4] The couple had three children: The Duke of Bedford was an Evangelical Christian who disapproved of drinking, smoking and gambling.
[6] After their estrangement in the 1930s, she attempted to sue him for "restoration of conjugal rights", but the case was dismissed after causing a sensation in the press.
The duke was associated with Fascism and supported Oswald Mosley, but was also a pacifist;[7] his younger son, Lord Hugh Russell, was a conscientious objector in the Second World War.