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Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, [a] on 18 May 1872, into an influential and liberal family of the British aristocracy. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His parents were Viscount and Viscountess Amberley .
Katharine "Kate" Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (née Stanley; 3 April 1842 – 28 June 1874) was a British suffragist and an early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom. A member of the Stanley and Russell families, she was the mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell .
From a long family line of distinguished Whigs and Liberals, Russell was the son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was also a great-grandson of the 19th-century Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. [1] He was named after his father's great friend Joseph Conrad, who was his godfather.
John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (16 November 1921 – 16 December 1987), styled Viscount Amberley from 1931 to 1970, was the eldest son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (the 3rd Earl) and his second wife, Dora Black. His middle name was a tribute to the writer Joseph Conrad, whom his father had long admired. [1]
John Russell was born on 10 December 1842 at Chesham Place, London, the first son of Lord John Russell, himself the son of the 6th Duke of Bedford. His mother was Lord Russell's second wife, Lady Frances, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto. [1] In 1846, his father became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and served as such twice.
Alyssa Whitall "Alys" Pearsall Smith (21 July 1867 – 22 January 1951) was an American-born British Quaker relief organiser and the first wife of Bertrand Russell. She chaired the society that created an innovative school for mothers in 1907.
John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, known as Frank Russell (12 August 1865 – 3 March 1931), was a British nobleman, barrister and politician, the elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who was twice prime minister of Britain.
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