John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (c. 1485 – 14 March 1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal. Among the lands and property he was given by Henry VIII after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, were the Abbey and town of Tavistock, and the area that is now Covent Garden. Russell is the ancestor of all subsequent Earls and Dukes of Bedford and Earls Russell, including John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and philosopher Bertrand Russell, as well
John Bertrand Johnson John Bertrand Johnson John Bertrand "Bert" Johnson (October 2, 1887 – November 27, 1970) ("né" Johan Erik Bertrand) was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist. He first explained in detail a fundamental source of random interference with information traveling on wires. According to Steve Johnson, described at http://www.jamminpower.com/main/noise.html: "John Bertrand Johnson was a cousin of my father, Dr. John A. Johnson. Bert was born to my grandfather's sister, who never married, in Sweden. Bert had no schooling in Sweden and lived in extreme poverty. My grandfather sent for him as a teenager and he ended up on their farm