Sir John Russell flourished during the reigns of Henry the Fifth Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth He obtained in marriage the hand of Elizabeth one of the two co-heiresses of Sir John Herringham lord of Chaldon and other estates in Dorset a descendant of the very ancient family of Harenc or Harange whose Norman possessions at the Conquest lay around Evreux and who are found to have been settled at Chaldon so early as the reign of King John .

In the 17th of Henry the Seventh 1502 Mr Russell authorised possession to Sir Roger Newburgh of 136 acres of land at Combe Kaines &c which was parcel of the Herringham estates in the tenure of one Henry Salter He had married Elizabeth the daughter and heiress of John Froxmere Esquire whose family residence was Froxmere Court at Crowle in the county of Worcester and their arms Sable a grifiin segreiant between three crosslets fitchée argent.

Buried in the Church of Swyre, beneath a plain stone inlaid with brass which bears above a shield of arms Russell impaling Frocksmere the following inscription in Gothic characters Here lyeth John Russell Esquier and Elizabeth his wyfe daughter of John Frocksmer Esquier which decessyd y xx yere of King Henry VII A 1505.

John of Berwick in Swyre, Dorset.