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Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, FBA (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell.
Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was also a great-grandson of the 19th century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell.
CONRAD RUSSELL, THE FIFTH EARL RUSSELL, historian of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain, was born on 15 April 1937. He was the younger son of the mathematician, philosopher, political activist and Nobel prize winner Bertrand Russell, OM, FRS.
Russell’s third marriage, to Patricia Spence, led to the birth of Conrad Russell, the fifth Earl Russell, who was a distinguished historian and an active, progressive member of the House of Lords. His last marriage when over eighty, to the American Edith Finch, provided with him much happiness.
Dec 1, 2016 · And, of course, when in 1987 he inherited his peerage as 5 th Earl Russell, following the death of his half-brother, Conrad found in the House of Lords his ideal audience. They absolutely loved him. He seemed to be a voice from a bygone era, adding gravitas to every debate in which he participated.
Oct 15, 2004 · Professor the 5th Earl Russell, who died yesterday aged 67, held the Chair of British History at King's College, London, from 1990 to 2002 and was a leading revisionist historian of the...
Biography of Conrad Russell 5th Earl Russell 1937-2004 including his birth, marriages, death and life events, life events of his siblings, and his ancestry to five generations, royal ancestors and royal descendants.
